La Providencia

I bought a hat from a vendor from Mexico

last Saturday,

at a dirt road market,


where if I had been so inclined,

I also could have purchased a goat.



You faithful long-time readers of White Spray Paint,

  have been to that market with me before.

So this hat vendor was selling hats of varying styles.

I was drawn to this one.

You KNOW I am a sucker for a word.


I fell for La Peregrinacion in Athens , Texas at the Goodwill.



You can read about that here.


And so La Providencia has several meanings.


It can certainly refer to the Divine-

as in Divine Providence.


We all know about that. Thank goodness.


Or it can refer to the steps in a process,

or

it can be a ruling or decision.

That is the meaning I prefer in my hat buying.

This hat would not pass

my father’s judgment.


It’s just a little bit too cocky for that. 

His unspoken rules?

* You almost needed to qualify to wear the hat.

As in cowboy hats were worn by actual men or boys

that actually worked with cows.


*Your hat brand needed to be Stetson,

and


*you had a straw hat for hot months and a felt hat for dress and cold months.