Easter Week just passed. I have always liked Domingo de Los Ramos or "Palm Sunday" in Tenancingo. There is a procession from the church called El Huerto to La Parroquia about 4 blocks away. People heave a sea of palms woven with flowers and rosemary to honor the memory of Christ's return after 40 days the desert. The people of Jerusalem welcomed him lining the streets with palms. In Tenancingo's procession men heft a heavy wooden statue of Jesus on a donkey,,, his ride for the occaision,,, a "Prophet's Packard".
     
     He came to town on a donkey. I picture him as a little guy, not physically dominating,, but with a manner that commanded attention. A cut through the mustard secure fellow who was always in touch with his passion. That's the key to a good oracion, being confident in your heart,, yet empathetic. How else can you garnish followers for the long term? Yet by the time he entered Jerusalem his best friends, for whom he died had scattered, to spread the gospel so they say. They broke him 13 times and only two women remained to see him through it all. I think of those lines from the Leonard Cohen song "Suzanne" :

And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water

And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him
He said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them
But he himself was broken, long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone