Latin American families are generally Catholic. I personally never had much faith and it was even more exhausted by my family’s faith and how it had habituated them. As I grew out of my faith and into my major, philosophy, … Continue reading
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In this entry I really took the opportunity of telling a Dionysian story of an internal struggle that may result from the cultural strife that is being an immigrant’s son with a foreign name. This is the most autobiographical of my … Continue reading
My final project is in 3 distinct installments. This is the first, and is largely a commentary on race and its implications for those of us whom may be racially mixed. In this inaugural piece, I engage the complexity of living … Continue reading
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw070816helena_maria_viramon In this interview with KCRW’s Book Worm host Michael Silverblatt, Helena Maria Viramontes notes that Their Dogs Came With Them was a project spanning a 12 year period, even antedating her debut novel Under the Feet of Jesus. Viramontes discusses the influence … Continue reading
In Nietzsche’s novella, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the protagonist is advised to be cautious when dealing with monsters, and that when he stares into the abyss, that abyss, too, stares back. The line has often been paraphrased to equivocate any kind … Continue reading
Public Defense. As a searcher this week, I thought it would he appropriate to close out my reading of Gods Go Begging by Alfredo Vea by a posting a New York Times video in which public defenders are analyzed in … Continue reading
In many communities, it is an often observed maxim that children are better off with shallow truths than definitive, stark ones. Often, adults believe the naïve livelihood of children to necessitate the invocation of white lies, or even myths, to … Continue reading