Scissor's Dance

 It's been a wonderful week.

Our oldest son just graduated from
Sound Engineering School in

Manhatten, New York,

and is visiting for 2 weeks.

I'm a happy mama :)

Knowing his love of music,

one of the first things I wanted to take him to

was The "MIM"

Musical Instrument Museum

in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Absolutely AMAZING place

that I wrote about

HERE

and

HERE

The museum is state of the art and

 HUGE.

We spent 6 1/2 hours viewing displays from over 200 countries,

and even then only briefly saw many of the areas.

One that particularly caught my eye

was the

Scissor's Dance

from Peru 

 The Scissor's Dance is an enduring tradition practiced in Southeast Peru.

With origins from the 16th Century, the dance began as a form of insurrection against the Europeans bringing Christianity to the area. 

 "The dance takes the form of a Ritual Battle of endurance

between 2 specialists who perform

acrobatic feats"

while violin and harp

improvise a tune.

If that seems a little intense,

a more friendly version of

Scissors

was introduced this morning

by my friend Lori Holt

of Bee In My Bonnet

Make sure to run over and see

her latest pattern 

Sewing Scissors

and I'm going to be here,

taking a little time

with my boy

before he heads back to

New York

(and doing my best to subtlety influence him to

job hunt

here in Arizona :)