Lapida season once more
The hammer and chisel have started to make music again.
This morning, as the Miagao jeepney I took slowed down near Oton plaza hoping to pick up more passengers, I noticed a familiar sound–a pleasant kind of hammering. Ah, lapida makers. The season has arrived.
I'm talking about this little recognized business of lapida-making. A piece of lapida is a thin slab of marble incised with the name, date of birth and death of a person. Modern day grave marker. When the "ber" season arrives, the lapida makers are probably one of the happiest for customers will start coming in to have a marker made for their deceased, probably to replace an old or broken one or to have the lapida where there was none.
Several lapida makers are concentrated along E. Lopez Street in Jaro, Iloilo. I remember that one of them has even been featured in a t.v. drama. Was it Maalaala mo Kaya?
Anyway, that will be all for now. Still need some more sleuthing to do.
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