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16p/20 16p/30+ both without any editing.

so so beautiful!

i even sat outside while doing some research for an hour or so yesterday!

I was reading Gloria Anzaldúa, an author with roots in both Mexican and American cultures. Her words gave me chills:

"Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create...

To write, to be a writer, I have to trust and believe in myself as a speaker, as a voice for the images. I ahve to believe that I can communicate with images adn words and taht I can do it well. A lack of belief in my creative self is a lack of belief in my total self and vice versa- I cannot separate my writing from any part of my life. It is all one.

When I write it feels like I'm carving bone. It feels like I'm creating my own face, my own heart -- a Nahuatl concept. My soul makes itself through the creative act. It is constantly remaking and giving birth to itself through my body" (95).


from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza