Sunday Mornings

On Sunday mornings, we get a load of laundry hanging on the line to dry, then we walk down Temezcuitate, get a coffee at Café Tal, pick up two newspapers, and find a bench in the Jardín de la Union. We choose between two daily Guanajuato papers - "A.M." and "Correo" - for local, national, and international current events, and we always pick up the "Chopper," a local weekly paper that is a little more chatty about what's happening around town.

Of course, there is always grimness in world news, which is why it is good to read the newspaper on a bench in the Jardín. It is hard to be too deflated by current events while watching families stroll through the plaza eating ice cream cones. And always on Sunday mornings, scout troops of young boys and girls, decked out in uniforms of blue pants or skirts and yellow blouses and green neck scarves, meet and practice their orienteering skills in scavenger hunts around the city center. They are earnest and cheerful and suggest that surely we'll find our way.