Mariachi singer turns loss into love for arts – and community
On a recent Monday evening at the Veronica Robles Cultural Center in East Boston, a group of 10 children practices circle dances for Día de los Muertos, the Mexican holiday that honors deceased friends and family. The girls hold out the edges of their long, black skirts, trimmed in green and orange, like sails as they stomp to the beat. In their midst is Veronica Robles herself – smiling and encouraging the tiniest timid dancer.
Afterward Ms. Robles asks what they’ve learned. “Don’t break the circle,” comes one answer. “Don’t stop dancing, even if you don’t know what you are doing,” comes another.
They are the very lessons Ms. Robles had to learn herself, at the lowest time in her life after the
