{"id":15744,"date":"2025-11-03T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15744"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:35:39","slug":"day-of-the-dead-2025-tulsa-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15744","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Dead 2025 – Tulsa Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Living Arts of Tulsa had their annual “Dia de los Muertos Art Festival” on Saturday the first of November. I love going and so off I went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What I love are the ofrendas or altars to the dead that various families and organizations put up to honor loved ones who have died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This ofrenda honors several family members who died. It was attended to by current family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ofrendas incorporate marigolds, candles, photos of the deceased. Special foods and snacks, and hobbies and the occupations of those honored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love almost all the ofrendas I have seen, whether or complex. I think it is important to remember loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cut paper like that shown above is a common decoration along with skulls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve thought about ofrendas for loved ones who had passed and what items that reflect their essence would be included. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve also thought about ofrenda for myself and what would I want on it. Then I thought I could design one myself using AI. It would reflect my interests such as sports, my photography, my computer, and my iphone. Also, my favorite sports teams and such and snacks. So I fired up Microsoft Copilot and sure enough it was up to the task. I put in some prompts and it came back with suggestions and I went back and forth with it for a little bit and this is what I got after just a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I gave it a photo of me to work with so you can see that. You can also see my camera, a couple of snickers bars, two plates of enchiladas as a favorite food, my hiking boots, and about three different iphones and logos for the Dallas Cowboys, Oklahoma Thunder, and Houston Astros sports teams. It was a lot of fun but felt kind of weird doing it also like I was tempting fate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I had a lot of fun on the Day of the Dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m linking with My Corner of the World<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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