by Armida Cervantez | Jun 18, 2018 | Community, Essays |
How does a tree heal? I see sap pouring from her bark. Are those tears? We heard the screams one Sunday morning. The girlfriend asking in a violent shake, “Why?!” I see the leaves on the figure of stretching bark change, drop, and die. Is that her transformation? Did...
by Armida Cervantez | Sep 28, 2017 | Abbey Country, Community, Essays |
It’s a windy autumn in the desert. There are no stands of evergreens or pines to break the force–only dust, dry and crumbly under feet and irritating sand in the eye. The first graders lined up with fortitude in this dust. We waited patiently for the...
by Armida Cervantez | Feb 2, 2017 | Essays, Politics |
Sometimes my mind is the ultimate escape. It doesn’t require electricity or a virus protection program, but it does need maintenance. I can’t share in detail a recent life changing experience that occurred, but it did a frantic number on my thought process. I was...
by Armida Cervantez | Jul 20, 2016 | Essays, Philosophy |
Recently whilst wasting one more precious moment of my lifetime, I read an article on the destruction of the Maya Codices by a Franciscan Priest in the year 1562. This inquisition involved the burning of sacred texts, and it allowed control over the sacred and...
by Armida Cervantez | Jun 6, 2016 | Abbey Country, Back Yard Days, Essays |
Falling is an inescapable factor in my life. Whenever I am in inner turmoil, fearful or exhausted, I fall. Mother Earth just calls me home. I fell at my children’s school one day after a big event that I coordinated. I remember a parent calmly saying, “No,...
