#miss gongora

[gagmedrag]

Hornella Maria Góngora Ciccone, 2023

[an-asuryampasya]

thinking about recipes that taste different in every home, differing with each hand that makes it. how there can be so many different foods all sharing the same name, even within a single culture.

except not in a wow-cultural-variations-are-beautiful-way, but more along the lines of how they can inspire pure, distilled disappointment (or rage) in ways few other things in life can.

the dish stays the same, the ingredients stay the same, the cooking method stays the same - so you hear of [dish] and are briefly filled with hope and longing. bonus points if you're living away from home and you haven't had a chance to eat said dish for months or years. and!! here it is!! you've diligently avoided eating said dish at random restaurants over here because you just know (usually from prior experience) that they'll absolutely ruin it, so you're better off abstaining. or maybe it's the kind of dish that ISN'T available at restaurants, and your only hope is plotting and making friends with the right people that have family visiting in the vague hope that they're the kind to delight in plonking food into hands of "these students living all alone and so far from home :(" (nvm the fact that you saw said friend having the TIME of her life all this time because she's finally in a city with better food outlets than her hometown) (yes, I am aware that this is getting suspiciously specific at this point, shush)

so anyway, the food. it paid off! you put in the legwork and suffered through the appropriate number of awkward conversations with friends' parents who REALLY don't know you as well as they like to pretend they do, gave the right number of fake totally-not-awkward smiles, and now!! they're INSISTENT you join them for lunch because they brought [dish] from back home! and fuck, it's been literal MONTHS since you've had this last, AND they're from broadly the same culture as you so really, surely you can trust them to mean it when they call what they've brought [dish]. your eyes gleam and you agree, because oh man it's been so long and you just know it's going to be so good and the anTICIPATION is-

and then you take one bite and question your life's choices and experience a moment of unadulterated bafflement and abject loss because this was the first time you've had [dish] outside of your home and you didn't realise people used the same name for ATROCITIES like the kind you're attempting to eat now. it looks wrong, smells wrong, and tastes dreadfully wrong. this isn't [dish]. this isn't just a disappointment after all the build-up and hope you had. this is an insult. this is an embodiment of the sheer disrespect they have for the dish.

you realise then that ah, turns out disappointment actually DOES have a very distinct taste, and you just got acquainted with it. you wonder how they managed to ruin it so spectacularly. how!!! why???? literally WHAT lengths did they have to go to in order to manage to make [dish] taste so alien???

anyway, that feeling. few emotions I've experienced in life were as potent as that welling up of abject horror and sorrow as I tasted the first long awaited morsel of a beloved dish made in a different style (an objectively WRONG style /lh)

[gongorawork]

Guided Meditation from Anthony Gongora on Vimeo.

This is an example of how I would end a dance class. I like to use the final 7-10 minutes of class to help center students. My students love this part of the lesson. If for whatever reason I miss a day students request the meditation. I invite you to do the meditation with me.

[recentanimenews]

FEATURE: The Top 10 Anime OPs of 2020 According to YOU!

  As we near the voting period for the Anime Awards where we will collectively determine the anime bests of the year 2020, the well-worn adage of “never skip the OP” comes to mind. I’m confident we’ll make the best choice, but there were many great OPs this year that won't make the cut to be highlighted in the nominations. So let’s take a look back at some of the year’s greatest not determined by our admittedly extremely qualified panel of judges, but by numbers and you, the fans.

  We’ve been posting up OPs on YouTube all year and have even made a playlist for 2020 — so what better way to unbiasedly look at the year's best than with the most important votes of all? Views. Below I’ve composed a Top 10 list of anime OPs featured on Crunchyroll Collection YouTube Channel by views at 30 days so as not to give an unfair advantage to OPs posted earlier in the year. This is not a perfect metric — as I’ll get into a bit later — but delivers either an interesting look at what people have been watching this year or, at the very least, some great new additions to your playlist on YouTube ...

  10. Black Clover - "Everlasting Shine" by TOMORROW X TOGETHER

    The collision of anime and K-pop will become a theme on this list, so it’s only natural that it should begin with the collaboration between TOMORROW X TOGETHER and the anime that has never missed an OP. Black Clover hit off its next slate of anime-original content under the supervision of Yuki Tabata with a killer opening highlighting the magic knight captains. "Everlasting Shine" cleared 800k views in its first month and joined the series’ killer playlist snuggly between songs by Snowman.

  9. HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP - "Phoenix" by BURNOUT SYNDROMES

    BURNOUT SYNDROMES brought in the new year with a bang, heralding the beginning of Haikyu’s spring tournament arc with yet another absolute banger of an OP to compete with their own iconic "Hikare Are" and "Fly High!" Phoenix rose to claim 900k views in 30 days, especially impressive since Karasuno had no highlight opponents facing them down in the first half of the new TO THE TOP season.

  8. Black Clover - "Stories" by Snowman

    Black Clovers 11th OP had a lot of weight to carry introducing the first post-manga content the anime had to offer and nailed it with a Snowman collaboration so good that the group not only got signed to return for OP 13, but Daisuke Sakuma voiced an anime-original character designed just for him in Episode 140. "Stories" came just under 1 million views in its first month at 950k, joining the pantheon of hit Black Clover OPs.

  7. Rent-a-Girlfriend - "Centimeter" by the peggies

    I don’t know about you, but ever since Sarazanmai’s spectacular ED "Stand by Me" featuring the peggies, I’ve been waiting for more anime music by the group, and it is absolutely not a surprise to see their next collaboration on this list. They delivered an absolutely addictive song which TMS elevated with some great dance moves and brilliant color work. A smart move, as we’ll see later in this list.

  No metric for measurement is perfect and "Centimeter" may be the best example of where this list sells an OP short. The song barely cleared 1 million views in its first month and placed the peggies in the Number 7 spot, however, the viewership on Rent-a-Girlfriend’s OP has only accelerated since, and it now sits comfortably at 6 million views, tying it for second place in overall viewership. Looking back again in another six months, it might even be Number 1 ...

  6. Black Clover - "Black Catcher" by Vickeblanka

    The original Black Clover OP artists returned to close out the anime’s last wildly-escalating manga-adapted arc with a killer OP that got served up twice. First in a dark black-and-white aesthetic going into the series climactic battle, then again in brilliant color after the conclusion of the epic conflict. 

  "Black Catcher" brought in 1.1 million views in what is an astonishing sweep in popular viewership for this list. Every OP Black Clover dropped this year made it into the top 10. A spectacular feat for a series that serves up a new one every cour.

  5. Re:ZERO Season 2 - "Realize" by Konomi Suzuki

    In a series so notorious for outright ignoring it’s OP and/or EDs for the majority of its episodes to pack in as much extra time as possible for Subaru’s continued suffering, it’s absolutely amazing how quality each of its OPs has been. "Realize" rapidly ascended to 1.5 million in its first month and has since aged like a fine wine as the events of the series slowly added context to many of the unusual and intriguing visuals therein.

  4. JUJUTSU KAISEN - "Kaikai Kitan" by Eve

    Launching one of the most anticipated new series in years and adapted by studio MAPPA, who has acted as the headline studio of 2020 with multiple hit productions, "Kaikai Kitan" was a shoo-in for this list. JUJUTSU KAISEN didn’t disappoint with a slick OP directed by one of the all-time animation greats and Naruto alumni Shingo Yamashita. "Kaikai Kitan" cleared 2 million in its first 30 days, and if anything, is only accelerating as the series’ sterling production continues to draw more fans. Also, TOHO released the video early on their own channel, where it’s performing even better.

  3. Boruto - "Hajimatteiku Takamatteiku" by Sambomaster

    This ED stands out as a love letter to Naruto in an anime that is essentially one big love letter to Naruto. Returning to the franchise after crafting what may have been the original Naruto’s most iconic OP, "Rhapsody of Youth," Sambomaster delivers yet another bop, while Pierrot seeded the visual sequence with references to many iconic Naruto OP visuals. "Hajimatteiku Takamatteiku" cleared 2 million views in its first month and was the perfect introduction for the series' slow build toward the manga’s Kara arc.

  2. The God of High School - "Contradiction" ft. Tyler Carter by KSUKE

      Subtlety is not The God of High School’s thing and "Contradiction" dropped like a punch in the face with some completely wild visuals and music. Techno doesn’t often make appearances in anime OPs, so a song composed by KSUKE featuring the American metalcore vocalist of Issues, Tyler Carter, was a galaxy away from ordinary even in a year where an avalanche of K-pop has been dropping into anime. The accompanying visuals could only be described as aggressive with fight scenes set under a color-swapped psychedelic blacklight style effect. 2.5 million viewers tuned in in the first month, and the song recently cleared 6 million to continue competing with Rent-a-Girlfriend's "Centimeter" from the same season.

  1. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! - "Easy Breezy" by chelmico

    It really couldn’t have been anyone else. Storyboarded by Masaaki Yuasa himself and animated with some surprisingly analog techniques by the talented French animator Abel Gongora, "Easy Breezy" cleared 3 million views in its first month and has breezed its way past 10 million over the course of 2020. This OP was easy, it was breezy, and it was super meme-y. The riffs of the girls of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! dancing to chelmico’s addicting tune were absolutely legion and for good reason, the loud colors, the simple style, and the Drake references were a perfect breeding ground for some truly inspired fan content, making it, in my opinion, the only choice for OP of the Year for 2020.

  Gotta say I’m overjoyed to see Eizouken at the top of the list even after spending half a year working that earworm out of my head, as well as so much love for Black Clover's OPs which have really been an achievement in quality even against Pierrot’s own storied legacy in Naruto and Bleach music.

  And don’t think I’m stopping here. While many fans studiously never skip the OP, I also never skip the ED ...

  What's your favorite OP from this list? Let us know in the comments. And tune in tomorrow for the top EDs of 2020 according to YouTube!

      Peter Fobian is an Associate Producer at Crunchyroll, writer for Anime Academy and Anime in America, and an editor at Anime Feminist. You can follow him on Twitter @PeterFobian.

  Do you love writing? Do you love anime? If you have an idea for a features story, pitch it to Crunchyroll Features! 

By: Peter Fobian

[latinboxsports]

@murphysboxing It is fight week!! Murphys Boxing takes over MGM Springfield starting this Thursday for our public weigh in....then Friday Night don’t miss a wild night of fights with Abraham Nova, William Foster, Carlos Gongora, Luis Arcon and James Perella. This will be the 1st Boxing Event at MGM Springfield and promises to be an exciting night of fights, booze and gambling! Looking forward to seeing a bunch of you nuts this weekend! @asupernova22 https://www.instagram.com/latinboxsports/p/BxNLmNPBy6c/?igshid=gxy728pofm2h

[meditationklaus]

This Yogi Wants to Stop Period Shaming (With Video)

Yoga instructor Stephanie Góngora (Insta-famous as @casa_colibri) posted a video of herself flowing through a beautiful asana sequence, like many yogis do. However there was something that stopped our thumb from scrolling on to the next thing, and hundreds and thousands of others—Steph’s yoga sequence wasn’t the only thing that was flowing.   Wearing all white, a period spot became very obvious on her pants. Steph’s post is a social statement – she wants to stop period shaming. Period.

What is Period Shaming?

Hiding a tampon in your sleeve rushing to the bathroom. Hiding the box of tampons in your shopping cart under other deemed un-embarrassing hygiene products. Anxiety about your tampon leaking and spotting on your pants. Taking all stops to avoid letting people know you are on your period.

Most of these things are unsaid. But Steph thinks this impact on women isn’t cool. Below is the video she posted on her Instagram, and she starts the caption with “I am a woman, therefore, I bleed. It’s messy, it’s painful, it’s terrible, & it’s beautiful. And yet, you wouldn’t know. Because I hide it.”

I am a woman, therefore, I bleed. . It's messy, it's painful, it's terrible, & it's beautiful. . And yet, you wouldn't know. Because I hide it. . I bury things at the bottom of the trash. I breathe, ragged and awkward through the cramps, all the while holding onto this tight lipped, painted on smile. Tampons? Shhh. We don't say those words out loud. Hide them. In the back pocket of your purse, in the corner of the bathroom drawer, at the very bottom of your shopping cart (please let me get a female cashier). Events or engagements get missed. I'll tell myself it’s the PMS, sure, but it has more to with the risk of being "caught," at what…I'm not quite sure. . And I’m lucky. . Over 100 million young women around the globe miss school or work for lack of adequate menstrual supplies, & fear of what might happen if the world witnesses A NATURAL BODILY FUNCTION. . WHY? . Because hundreds of years of culture have made us embarrassed to bleed. Have left us feeling dirty and ashamed. . STOP PRETENDING. Stop using silly pet names like Aunt Flo because you're too afraid to say "I'm bleeding" or "vagina." Stop wasting so much effort hiding the very thing that gives this species continuity. . START talking about it. Educate your daughters. Make them understand that it can be both an inconvenience and a gift, but NEVER something to be ashamed about. Educate your sons so they don't recoil from the word tampon. So when a girl bleeds through her khaki shorts in third period (pun intended), they don't perpetuate the cycle of shame and intolerance. . This #StartSomethingSunday , I want to highlight @corawomen . . Cora Women is a 100% Organic tampon company. . But that’s not all. They are also breaking barriers. Making it ok to talk about periods, even on social media. Providing personalized, delivered tampon/pad orders right to your door. AND for every box purchased, donating a box of sustainable pads to girls who can't afford menstruation products. . Fuck yeah. That's the kind of stuff I can galvanize behind, NO money OR product needed. Just a mission I support on a topic we should ALL be talking about. . THIS IS JUST A LEAK, NOT FREE BLEEDING ✌????

A post shared by Steph Gongora (@casa_colibri) on Feb 5, 2017 at 11:06am PST

Blood is gross. Snot is gross. Poop is gross. Smelly things that come out of our body are gross. Evolution has shaped our behavior to avoid these substances. The body physiologically responds with disgust – wrinkling the nose (to block out smells), getting nauseous (to avoid digestion of the substance), and a tendency to back away (to avoid contact with the substance). This response has evolved to protect us from these substances because they contain bacteria and germs that could make us sick.

When you watched this video of Steph, you might have noticed yourself wrinkling your nose, turning your head away, or simply thinking “that’s gross.” That’s a normal response, but what Steph is saying is that it’s important for women to not have to feel ashamed about this normal bodily function.

In a Cosmo article, Steph wrote, “I’ve been successful in getting people to talk about period shame, something that was shrouded in such silence for far too long. It’s not like I’m going to start free-bleeding. It would mean a lot of stained clothes, car seats, and sheets…But I do hope that this cycle of shame and intolerance around the very thing that gives our species continuity can, one day soon, stop.”

Steph wants yogis and all women to be free from tension and anxiety felt by a constant pressure to hide. If you’re in a yoga class and you leak, oh well. It happens. Steph believes that no woman should feel ashamed of that. It’s life. It’s natural. So go with the flow.

The post This Yogi Wants to Stop Period Shaming (With Video) appeared first on DOYOUYOGA.COM.

[gagmedrag]

Hornella Gongora, 2023

[guadalajaradispensas]

Matrimonios 1708-1709 (by/por linda v.)

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1708-1709 film 168360

001 168360

002 OAH 2645-2646 p1

003 SLATE

004 PRINCIPIO

005 Juan Saucedo & Bernarda de San Miguel /Saltillo *tree desc #7

011 Juan Baltazar & Maria Rodriguez /Compostela *tree desc #12

015 Juan Manuel Gutierrez & Gertrudes Ayllon /Jalostotitlan/Juchipila

022 Juan de Olivares & Josefa Nuno /Zapotlan *tree desc #23 /also see #33

024 Juan de la Torre & Geronima Navarro /Saltillo *tree desc #27

033 same as #22 Juan de Olivares & Josefa Nuno *tree desc #33

035 Juan Martin & Petrona Maria /Guadalajara/Sayula

038 Juan Damian & Catalina de los Angeles /Teocaltiche/Jalostotitlan

040 Juan de los Reyes & Teresa Maria Delgado /Sayula

045 Juan Antonio de Tames & Catarina Rodriguez /Monterrey *tree desc #45

050 Ignacio de los Santos de Charles Mireles & Petronila de Jaso /Monterrey

058 Juan de la Mancha & Juana de la Garza /Monterrey *tree desc #58

065 Jose Cantu & Gertrudes de la Garza /Monterrey

066 Diego Gonzalez Rubio & Rosa Francisca de Vargas /Jalostotitlan *tree desc #68

072 Antonio de Pedroza & Teresa Macias Valadez /Lagos *tree desc #72

082 Nicolas de Aldrete & Josefa de la Mora y Hermosillo /Cuquio/Tepatitlan *tree desc #86

090 Juan Aceves de Hermosillo & Polonia de Torres /Tepatitlan *tree desc #92

094 Felix de Acosta & Maria Landeros /Aguascalientes/Lagos *tree desc #94

102 CONTINUA EN EL ROLLO SIGUIENTE

103 MEXICO OAH ROLLO 2645 FIN

104 MEXICO OAH ROLLO 2646

105 SLATE

106 CONTINUA DEL ROLLO ANTERIOR

107 same as img #94 Felix de Acosta & Maria Landeros /Aguascalientes/Lagos

115 Sebastian de Haro y Cueba & Josefa de Avila y Ledesma /Compostela

118 Roque Jimenez & Josefa Maria Macias /Ameca/Ahualulco

131 Santiago de Arizpe & Juana de los Santos /Satillo *tree desc #131

138 Salvador de Gamboa & Maria Rosales /Monte Escovedo *tree desc #139

140 Sebastian del Rio & Maria de Montes /Saltillo

144 Francisco Gutierrez & Bernarda Sanchez /Saltilo *tree desc #145

150 Francisco Cantu & Josefa Manuela de la Garza /Monterrey *tree desc #150

155 Francisco de los Santos & Polonia Sanchez de Segovia /Sierra de Pinos

159 Francisco Marcos & Lorenza Clara /Cocula

162 Francisco Arias & Juana Garcia /Ahuacatlan

166 Francisco Javier Casillas & Antonia Francisca /Poncitlan/Zapotlan

170 Gregorio Basauri & Nicolasa Elizondo /Reinos de Castilla/Leon/Jalpa /also see img #184

182 Francisco Mellado & Juana de Salaises /Villa Purificacion

184 part of img #170 Gregorio Basauri & Nicolasa Elizondo

189 Geronimo de Ornelas Villasenor & Francisca Alonso de los Hinojos /Teocaltiche

195 Cristobal Flores & Josefa Zepeda /Saltillo *tree desc #195

203 Cristobal Rodriguez & Rosa Maria /Tizapan *tree desc #203

208 Andres Arias de Savedra & Josefa de Bascones /Tepic

212 Andres Correa & Magdalena de los Reyes /Mazapil

217 Juan Antonio Ponce de Leon & Teodora Garcia /Monclova

223 Juan de Arredondo & Maria de Ibarra /Saltillo *tree desc #223

229 Alonso Nunez de Haro & Juana Jimenez /Guadalajara/Mascota *also see img #280

242 Juan de Plaza & Maria Rosa /Jala

246 Lorenzo Mejia & Magdalena de Santillan /Nochistlan *tree desc #252

256 Jose de Ornelas & Maria Gonzalez de Ruvalcaba /Teocaltiche

263 Jose de Aguilera & Jualiana de Velasco /Zacatecas

267 Patricio Lopez & Magdalena de Aranda /Ahuacatlan

270 Martin Geronimo & Maria Magdalena /Jalpa

273 Diego Sebastian & Magdalena /Teocaltiche

276 Andres Lozano & Antonia Gongora /Monterrey *tree desc #276

280 same as img #229 Alonso Nunez de Haro & Juana Jimenez *tree image #289

335 Antonio Alvarez & Maria de Llamas /Jalostotitlan/Nochistlan

340 Antonio Jimenez & Maria de San Miguel /Saltillo *tree desc #343

346 Antonio de la Garza & Isabel Cavazos /Monterrey *tree desc #346

351 Antonio Ramirez & Petronila Flores /Jalostotitlan *also see #361

354 Diego de la Mancha & Luisa de la Garza /Monterrey *tree desc #354

361 same as img #351 Antonio Ramirez & Petronila Flores /Jalostotitlan

363 Luis de Ornelas & Matiana Ruiz /Teocaltiche *tree desc #367

374 Miguel de Herrera & Josefa Chrisostomo /Acaponeta

378 Diego Flores de Valdez & Juana de la Fuente /Saltillo *tree desc #378

385 Luis de Navarrete & Mariana Tellez de Grajeda /Autlan

390 Miguel Galarza & Magdalena Macias /Real de Santa Rosa *tree desc #394

397 Miguel de la Garza & Isabel de Uribe /Monterrey *tree desc #397

404 Lucas Hernandez & Teresa Maria Salaises /Tepic/Ahuatlan

407 Alonso de Avila & Lucrecia de la Cruz /Purificacion

417 Salvador Hernandez & Lorenza Torres /Guanajuato/Aguascalientes

421 Salvador Gonzalez & Josefa de a Pena /Cuyutlan/Compostela

427 Salvador Gutierrez & Catalina de Vargas Castaneda /San Cristobal de la Barranca

446 Jose Juan de Medina & Maria Magdalena /Guanajuato/Juchipila

451 Felipe Duran & Maria de Cuevas /Nochistlan//Tepatitlan

458 Nicolas Garcia & Juana Martinez /Lagos

461 Miguel Juarez & Josefa Gomez /Aguascalientes/Teocaltiche/Ameca

468 Pedro Sanchez & Pascuala /Jalostotitlan *continues on img #475

470 Nicolas Muniz de Velasco & Rosalia de la Cueva y Aiyon /Compostela

471 Nicolas Vazquez de Lara & Rosa Matilde Sainz de Santiago *1st page missing

475 continues from img #468 Pedro Sanchez & Pascuala /Jalostotitlan

477 part of img #471 Nicolas Vazquez de Lara & Rosa Matilde Sainz de Santiago *tree #477

479 Nicolas de Avalos (Davalos) Becerra & Maria Beltran de Ayala /Guadalajara

484 Jose Maria Orosco & Catalina Gonzalez /Teocaltiche/Nochistlan *tree desc #487

492 Juan Acevedo del Castillo & Maria de la Cruz /Michoacan/Ahuacatlan

493 Maria de la Encarnacion Garcia *suspension de matrimonio por problemas de juridiccion y

      tributos /Jerez

508 Jacinto Munoz de Leon & Juana Duran /Panuco

512 Jose de la Cerda & Antonia de Arizmendi /Teocaltiche

524 Jose de los Santos & Ana Macias /Aguascalientes

529 Jose de Aramburu & Catarina de Islas /Nochistlan/Aguascalientes *tree desc #531

535 Jose Macario Tremino (Trevino) & Juana Caballero /Monterrey *tree desc #536

541 Jose Ramirez & Lorenza Hernandez /Moya *tree desc #546

553 Jose de los Santos & Antonia Rosales Ramirez /Nochistlan *tree desc #555

563 Antonio Romo de Vivar & Felipa de Cuevas /Asientos/San Luis Potosi

566 Nicolas Jose de Escamilla & Micaela de Lomelin y Renteria /Ciudad de Mexico/Jalostotitlan

570 Jose de los Reyes & Beatriz de Medina /Aguascalientes *tree desc #570

575 Manuel de Olague & Felipa de la Cueva /Jerez

582 Pedro Calvillo & Bernarda Flores /Aguascalientes/Jalpa *cont on img #585 & #588

583 Miguel de Vargas & Juana de Robles /Cajititlan

585 part of img #582 Pedro Calvillo & Bernarda Flores

586 Dionicio Sanchez & Juana Josefa /Nochistlan

587 Ignacio Ruiz de Esparza & Gertrudes Macias /Aguascalientes

588 continues from images #582 & 585 Pedro Calvillo & Bernarda Flores

589 Pedro Fernandes de Sayas & Teresa Rodriguez de Carbajal /Reinos de Castilla/Boca Leones

599 Santiago Gonzalez de Archundia & Juana Gutierrez Duron /Islahuaca/Aguascalientes

602 Juan de Osorio & Magdalena Flores Medrano /Juchipila

606 Francisco Juan & Francisca Antonia /Tonala/Coyula

611 Fracisco de Ibarra & Maria Carrera /Acaponeta/Tepic

618 Francisco Agustin & Juana Petrona /Tonala

623 Gregorio Marastigui & Tomasa de Guzman (Morales) /Caracas/Compostela

628 Geronimo de Ruvalcaba & Antonia de Salas /Aguascalientes/Teocaltiche

631 Bartolome Garcia & Juana Ruiz de Esparza /Aguascalientes

634 Bernardo Pascual (esclavo) & Dominga de la Cruz /Aguascalientes/San Luis Potosi

636 Bartolome Ruiz Bravo & Ana Zezati del Castillo /Cordova/Sacatecas

641 Cristobal Lopez & Nicolasa de Viches /Zacatecas

645 Jose de los Reyes & Beatriz de Medina /Aguascalientes

648 Sebastian de Quezada & Antonia Ornelas /Jalostotitlan *tree desc #650

654 Marcos Gonzalez Hidalgo & Tomasa Cantu /Monterrey *tree desc #654

660 Antonio Gonzalez & Juana Gonzalez /Amacueca

661 Manuel Gonzalez & Josefa de Villareal /Monterrey

663 continues from img #660 Antonio Gonzalez & Juana Gonzalez

666 Lorenzo Ramirez & Juana Perez /Aguascalientes/Jalostotitlan

669 Juan de Medrano & Maria Martinez de Lerma /Guadalajara/Acaponeta

673 Juan Lopez & Ana de Castaneda /Santa Cruz

679 Juan Lopez & Ana Carrillo /Guadalajara

683 Nicolas de Arevalo (Ruvalcaba) & Antonia Garcia de los Angeles /Cuquio

695 Pedro de Araiza & Magdalena de Salazar /Aguascalientes

707 Antonio Velarde Cosio & Merenciana de Reinoso /Juchipila/Lagos

709 Lorenzo de Padilla y Davila & Rosa Maria Alvarez

711 Nicolas Cervantes & Juana Francisca /Aguascalientes/Fresnillo

714 Maria Magdalena /Tonala *caso en tribunal

716 Lazaro Valdez & Jacinta de la Pena /Saltillo *tree desc #718

722 Antonio de la O & Magdalena de Lamas /Colotlan

723 CONTINUA EN EL ROLLO SIGUIENTE

724 MEXICO OAH ROLLO 2646 FIN

725 END OF ROLL

[nofomoartworld]

Hyperallergic: She Makes the Dirty Work Look Like a Degas

Sharon Mesmer is a poet, prose writer, essayist and professor of creative writing living in Brooklyn. She was born and grew up in Back of the Yards, a Chicago neighborhood named for its proximity to the Union Stockyards. After moving to New York she received her MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Allen Ginsberg.

From 2003 to 2010 she was a member of the Flarf poetry collective, whose practitioners used Google to mine the internet for content, collaborating daily via an email listserv. Mesmer co-edited the anthology, Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf, forthcoming this Spring from Edge Books.

Mesmer’s poetry collections include Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof, 2015), Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo, 2008), and The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose, 2008). Four of her poems appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition, 2013).

Sharon Mesmer (photo by Esther Levine)

Fiction collections are Ma Vie à Yonago (Hachette Littératures, Paris, in French translation, 2005), In Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose Press, 2005) and The Empty Quarter (Hanging Loose Press, 2000). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Purple, and The Brooklyn Rail. She teaches at NYU and the New School.

This interview was conducted in person and by email.

*   *   *

Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle: You’re a witch.

Sharon Mesmer: Thank you. Yes, I was in a coven for two years in the ‘90s. Well, everybody was in a coven in the ‘90s.  We never hexed, but we divined. The meat locker doors to our hearts were open, and the chains of the law were broken.  I believe that all that witchy work was the main practice that opened my nadis  [network of yogic energy channels]  to  Flarf. That, and the czarnina  [duck blood soup]  my Polish grandmother used to ladle out when I was a kid.

For me,  Flarf was a daily practice like any other. Constantly responding to the constant inflow of the political/cultural/social absurd. A filtering and a distilling. Of course, nothing is as absurd as what we’re seeing now, but we rose to the challenge as we saw it then.

That kind of work was also a way into personalities not my own: I was able to compose in other modes, speak with other mouths, often mouths attached to personalities I didn’t like or agree with.

There was, too, the collaborative aspect: filtering and distilling the words of the other poets (at one point there were 30 + on the flarflist) into my own poems, and then seeing my words in their poems. We were a meta-mind. I miss that intensity, especially these days when there’s so much more to conjure with. But I’m a deep believer in the via negativa:

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.

T.S. Eliot nicked that from St. John of the Cross. But good modernist poets steal from transcendent medieval saint-poets. (SJC sounds like self-help from the past, especially as Rough Orange Beast, his hour come at last, slouches toward daughter-wife to be born.)

In our end is our beginning? Hopefully. Eliot stole that line from Mary Queen of Scots, you know. She had it embroidered on the inside of the dress she wore to her execution. That’s being optimistic: she was in prison for 19 years. He’s more pessimistic: “In my beginning is my end.” I’m trying to find the middle way.

G C-H: Your blood relations include Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer,  magus of animal magnetism, and Otto Messmer, the creator of Felix the Cat. Mesmerism later became known as hypnotism. Felix was the first image ever broadcast on TV! Do you bend spoons? Cozy up with these cuckoo birds in your family tree?

SM: Felix on TV / cats on youtube is a trajectory to conjure with. Do what thou wilt, kitten, is the extent of the law. The chains of the canine have been broken.

In a great review of Lisa Randall’s Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe that appeared in the New York Review of Books in 2016, Lawrence Krauss noted that every cubic centimeter of space teems with photons left over from the Big Bang, particles that last interacted with matter when the universe was 300,000 years old. And every second, 600 billion neutrinos — which emanate from explosions inside the sun — penetrate our bodies and Earth’s. He says, “Without this invisible background of cosmic material we would not exist.” So, how old are we, really? How permeable? How can we possibly speak with only one voice?

Great-Great-Great-Great Uncle Franz’s “magnetic fluid” was, I believe, something akin to chi/qi or kundalini — as mentioned above. He  knew that nadis make a universe of us and vice-versa. How did this 18th -century Swabian know that? He probably stole the idea from some traveling mystic/guru/swami/qi gong master that he ran into in Vienna in 1768, possibly inviting him (or her) to the performance he’d arranged in his garden  of Mozart’s one-act singspiel about a duped shepherdess. Like Eliot he pilfered, though not from Mary Stuart’s dress.

By the way, the kundalini serpent is female. So we all have a girl snake coiled up somewhere in our coccyxes.

G C-H: You complect a contemporary lyric with magic, rigor, and grace that snaps my head around. (Caught kissing on top of a grave, 16th-century Spain’s Luis de Gongora compelled the fourteen-line severity of the baroque sonnet to encompass both diamonds and doom.)

We all know Russia’s Futurist Zaum, that trans-rational language, Khlebnikov’s nonsense called “Beyondsense.” But beyond good and evil, where good enough just ain’t good enough, Sharon, you push on to Beyoncésense…

SM: Beyoncésense informs us that Gongora’s culteranismo  (culto, cultivated + luteranismo, Lutheranism) was a word created by haters to ridicule it for not being “real” poetry.  Plus ça change. And thank you for using “lyric” in describing my work. It’s been suggested that there is no poetry — and no mind, either — at work in my work. There are a few minds, actually.

The closer Orange Beast slouches, the more I turn to VelKhleb, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Danlil Kharms. Especially Kharms. Northwestern University just published, last month, Alexander Cigale’s wonderful Russian Absurd (a translation of Kharms’s selected poems). The title itself describes the situation at hand.

G C-H: The  untamable painter Walter Robinson gave me your book, Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place last Christmas Eve. Since then, I’ve read nothing else! Potty mouth. Shit chat. I caught your act at Le Poisson Rouge. You delivered like a bacchante, bare-back on a beer truck, with the devil of love at its wheel. Would it stun you next to learn that my companion, the photographer Seton Smith, finds your oeuvre “intimate”?

SM: Not at all. I expose myself for love of the people.

As for Le Poisson Rouge, it really was a hell of an evening. My gynecologist was there.

And for GFMGLP, thank you. Take another look at the cover image and you’ll see that, thanks to my editor Shanna Compton’s genius for design, one of its rosy polka dots falls squarely upon a kitten’s mouth.

The I Ching says, “Everything serves to further”; I say everything serves to further the desire of a rosy polka dot to fall squarely upon a kitten’s mouth, creating the look of a party girl with lipstick smeared after her long night of raving/snogging.

The kitten is confident, and stares at the skittish puppy (who cannot meet her gaze), much like Kristen Visbal’s newly situated “Fearless Girl” sculpture stares down Di Modica’s Wall Street bull, but way more successfully. I totally agree with what Jillian Steinhauer wrote about fake corporate feminism facing off against entrenched corporate aggression, and everyone going gooey for it.

I swear to god, if I were Jesus, I would have killed that unicorn every time he directed An episode of the A-Team.

(Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place)

G C-H: Uh-huh. GFMGLP’s a relentlessly demented plaster bath laid on with a trowel. Word choice like “moiety” and “propinquity.” Your Annoying Diabetic Bitch sells for $1,872.21 on Amazon. Plus shipping.   You pound reality into submission…

SM: I swear to god, if I were Jesus, I would kill Amazon every time it tries to sell a copy of ADB for that price. I may just write to the seller and say that, while I’m flattered, I would like to know  WTF.  On the other hand, maybe it’s better not to know. Via negativa and all.

I love it that you see my meek efforts to poem as beating reality into submission, which is indeed my goal — a personal revenge on reality for robbing me of a golden childhood which could’ve continued indefinitely had it not been for my anterior pituitary gland secreting somatotropin and lutropin, then releasing them into my bloodstream. But I heard that happens to everybody.

To go back to something I said earlier, when I joined the  Flarf collective, just after the commencement of Gulf War 2.0 in ‘03, I had no idea that the absurdity of  Flarf  — a fitting reaction to the relentless dementedness we were witnessing — would be divested of prescience by the total fucking dementedness that we’re witnessing now. It’s tough to try to go back to  Flarf to respond, because our current condition has rendered  Flarf quaint, though some may say it was quaint before. My hope is that, with the forthcoming release of the long-awaited Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf (Edge Books), readers will at least laugh and feel reprieved.

G C-H: Social Realism, conscience and content, the literal not the literary, seem to be “in” with a vengeance. I once dated a transexual so lovely she was undetectable. Together we met Peter Tork. A consummate shoplifter, she painted her apartment black by splashing paint out of open gallon cans. Carried a sword cane, never went out before midnight. Drew painfully accurate renderings of hand guns in mechanical pencil, decorating her lair with  snapshots of executed female anarchists and horror movie posters to which she had added her own name.

I met her in the graveyard at St. Marks Church during one of her stints outside psychiatric institutions. I later asked if surgery had helped. Insouciant, she replied, “Well, if I only have $5.00, I can buy a book or a sandwich. Either way, I lose.”

SM: Most loveliness is undetectable. Maureen Thorson wrote a detectably lovely chapbook called the Woman, the Mirror, the Eye (2015), after she was diagnosed with AZOOR, acute zonal occult outer retinopathy. AZOOR’s most salient characteristic is that it can’t be seen/detected; the sufferer’s retina appears normal. The condition can only be inferred. Her chapbook is a beautiful mediation on seeing:

The blind poet is a romantic notion — we ascribe a clairvoyance, literally a kind of ‘clear seeing’ — to Homer and Milton. But the only insight I’ve received from my eye problems is into how unclearly we see everything, even ourselves, and how fitful are our illusions of control […] All hail the vanishing point.

Things are always disappearing — objects, but also ideas and ways of being. Remember when a phone stayed in one place? Unless you were breaking up with someone, or waiting for news of a birth or death, your connection (pun intended) was tenuous. That changed after June 29, 2007 — the rollout of the first iPhone. Everyone’s attention span, which was pretty attenuated to begin with, disappeared. Or became fragmented.

I noticed this with my own work: I used to collect ideas for  two or three months, and then write. Now, I wonder what happened to the things I was thinking about two weeks ago. There are small stacks of books next to my bed and my reading chair, and when I look at the books on the bottoms of those piles, it’s like a trip down memory lane: Oh, that’s what I was thinking about. So, nostalgia is different, too.

Social realism: I grew up in a neighborhood on the  South  Side of Chicago called Back of the Yards, named for its proximity to the Union Stockyards. Our house was four blocks away from the stockyards’ 47th Street entrance. Yes, the same stockyards of  The Jungle. The hideousness that Upton Sinclair described in that book  prompted food inspection reforms. For instance, did you know that our FDA of today allows “only” 136 insect fragments and 4 rodent hairs in a jar of peanut butter? Ever wonder what those dark specks in your cornmeal are? That’s not rat hair. Worried there’s not enough protein in beer? No worries. Imagine what people were eating before.

Anyone for cold cuts? Hopefully your friend’s $5 went toward a book.

Kate Beckinsale has her fat ass days, and thatʼs why I called my compassionate conservative girlfriend a lard ass and tied her to the treadmill. Sheʼs still there. Go ahead – bang her.

(Annoying Diabetic Bitch)

G C-H: Wherever do you get your inspiration? PTSD? Accelerants? Goat’s meat chili with peyote buttons? You say you can’t sleep because your thinking cap’s always on. Anagrams = Ars Magna. Does this guck gush straight from your Orphic maw? Do you edit? Sample? Steal? The poet Brandon Brown maintains he only truly enters the Rapture when revising.

SM: I sample, steal and edit A LOT. Allen Ginsberg was my teacher and friend, but we always mock-fought over “First thought, best thought.” I disagreed. He was a deft  present-moment Buddhist improviser and I’m an afflicted backward-looking Catholic (despite having taken refuge vows in 2010). So, yes, there is a rapture to enter via revising. But Brandon, whose work I really like, will no doubt agree with me when I say that remaining at ease with one’s preoccupations requires a constant friendship with the  Odradek-of-one’s-own-being. Revising is good, but I like being permeable at the beginning. Inspiration is everywhere. Admittedly, it’s a gamble with sanity, especially if you ride the subway every day. The negotiation requires discernment. I’m still learning that.

G C-H: C’mon, shoot the geek. Paintball gun a picture of the ob-literate poetry scene.

SM: Pretty much my entire focus right now, at least with regard to poetry — specifically reading it — is work from outside the US, particularly in translation. I’ve reviewed books in translation for  The Paris Review, American Poetry Review,  The Brooklyn Rail. The work I’ve found is spectacular: epiphanic, revelatory. Eunice Odio, Mircea Eliade, Phillip Meersman, Anise Koltz. (Meersman writes in four languages, including Morse Code.)

My current project, a collection of poems called Even Living Makes Me Die, responds to these works that I’ve been reading. The idea came about when I discovered the work of the late Costa Rican-born poet Eunice Odio. I wrote an article on Odio and her book, The Fire’s Journey, for American Poetry Review.

As I did research for that piece, I became frustrated by the dearth of available information. I emailed one of her translators, Keith Ekiss, and asked: “These little bits of her life create a very ‘glamorous and doomed’ image of her — the woman visionary, dying alone — but is that true?”

I was hoping not, because that myth of the doomed woman poet is just so absolutely played out. He replied that not a lot is known about Odio’s life. Despite an exhaustive search, I came up with only two anthologies containing a few poems, and a bio-bibliographical source book on Spanish-American women. Those three publications introduced me to a group of 19th- and early 20th-century women writers, from throughout the Americas, whose work I’d never read before. They were modern, visionary, sexually frank. As I read their work I began to write “to” them. I researched each as fully as possible. The more I wrote, and read, the more I began to wonder about other “under-known” female poets of the Americas, and this became my goal for Even Living … to learn about their lives and write “to” them.

The title of the collection itself comes from a line by the fabulous 19th-century poet Delmira Agustini: “Already living and dreaming makes me die.” Sometimes their life information was easy to attain, as in the case of the Canadian poet Elizabeth Smart, who died in 1986. Smart published only one book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, in 1945. It went out of print soon after it was first published, was then brought back into publication in 1966 and 1992. The book, which she called a “prose poem novel” (and which is quite ahead of its time as a hybrid text), chronicles her affair with a British poet named George Barker.

Almost nothing was known of Smart in this country until her son, Christopher, published a biography, The Arms of the Infinite: Elizabeth Smart and George Barker, released in the US in 2010 (I reviewed it for Rain Taxi). I need to do more research on, for example, Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 – c. 1757,  the first US-born woman to publish under her own name); Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812 –1848, American Transcendentalist published in The Dial ); Sarah Helen Power Whitman (1803 –1878, Transcendentalist and, very briefly, Edgar Allen Poe’s fiancée); and Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké and Georgia Douglas Johnson, associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

G C-H: In the wins, I “heart” this Godot by Sophia le Fraga.

SM: I <3 it 2! Srsly. Not being sarcastic.

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Endings, in search of happy endings

Endings 

In search of Happy Endings

By Anthony Gongora

How do we find the end?

More specifically the end of systemic dysfunctions?

Dysfunctions, which manifest in every form of oppression. 

When we look at racism, poverty, gender inequality, LGBTQ discrimination, corporate greed, political corruption, cradle to prison pipeline, global warming, white supremacy, hunger, the decimation of the rain forest, addiction, false information, testing regimens in early education, which only measures the excellence of people who are good test-takers, or the huge debt incurred pursuing higher education, religious dogma, and war we can measure oppression. 

Each of the above systemic forms of oppression was started by men which means that they can all be ended. 

But how?

How do we end societal structures that no longer serve humanity in terms of becoming our best possible example of what human life can be?

How do we find and create endings?

Looking at life as an example for endings there is a clear cycle of - birth to death. Every single living entity on this earth, irrelevant of the span-of-time, lives then dies. And so too, everything that humans make, we can unmake. Nothing is permanent. Nothing.

If something appears as fixed and unalterable, question it, and remember that a human-made the illusion of its permanence, which thankfully can be undone.

A symptom of systemic dysfunction is choosing consciously or unconsciously to forget.

For myself, forgetting comes from sheer exhaustion. I’m guessing that this could be true for others too. 

Being active and present to fight the good fight requires a lot of energy, which after working 60 - 80 hours a week is hard to come by. 

By the way, nobody that I know works the mythical 40 hours a week. 

American culture has reduced the human experience to work, eat, sleep, and consume. 

We are being worked to death physically and psychologically. 

This is not accidental.

Being forced to stay in a nearly constant state of mental and physical fatigue builds a society that is numb. A passive society makes it possible for the people in power to keep power. 

The gatekeepers - the ultra-rich, create and cultivate a culture that demands that people work constantly.

The few people at the top live for life. While everybody else works for life.

I'd like to share my life as a worker as an example. As an Artist/Educator and someone who was raised in poverty and within the welfare system, I have always lived in what I have labeled as “survival mode,” which means living from paycheck to paycheck with nothing extra. No savings and no emergency funds or family monies or inheritance. I have, from the age of 10 years old, always had multiple jobs at once. 

As a child, I sorted returned soda bottles at the convenience store and I also worked on an Ice cream truck. I was paid with products, not money. When I shared my candy rewards with my mom, she said, “next time get milk or bread”. I did. 

As an adult with a terminal degree, and as a full-time professor, to make ends meet, I had to supplement my income teaching adjunct at another university. I worked constantly. Though I have done everything prescribed by our society to get ahead, and I have done it well, I still have not achieved financial security. At 54, I still live hand to mouth in survival mode. 

Something is broken and it is not me.

The myth that if you work really hard you will get ahead is not true. 

The myth is kept alive because if the workers don’t go to work the ultra-rich can’t stay rich.

Myths that cause dysfunction need to end.  

Do you ever wonder why the accumulation of wealth is the dominant measure of “success” and why are we all encourage to pursue that singular end? 

My thinking goes like this, if we make money, a lot or a little, we tend to spend what we have to buy the newest object, which we believe will make our lives better. To reinforce this nearly every surface that we glance is selling us something. Through savvy marketing - pretty pictures, alluring words, and now algorithms that convince us that we have to have the object of our affection, we spend our money.

We spend our hard-earned cash to get the things that we don’t necessarily need. 

Why?

Because we have been manipulated. 

In the end, we are left cash-poor all the while making the rich richer - it is that simple.

In our minds, the thought of making more and more money is a constant tick. 

Do you ever wonder who placed that tick in your mind? 

The kooky part is that we make the money and then we give it right back. We temporarily feel successful and fulfilled because we own the object. However, now that our cash is gone we have to do more work to get more money to buy things that we don’t necessarily need. 

Truth be told at the end of the day, having been overworked, and underpaid most are too exhausted to deeply question anything. 

And if we find ourselves questioning our present state of being we quickly defend our status, answering ourselves back with, “I’m doing fine, I have a roof over my head and food on my table.”

FYI, African slaves had the same provided by their enslavers. I’m just saying. 

Advertisers are paid a lot of money to get us to spend our cash and their work works.

Is that power?

What is power?

Artist, Lauren Hill killed it when she penned the lyrics “If you can get the money you can get the power.” Truth. But, who has the power, truthfully, our politicians and government leader?

No. It is the ultra-rich who uses extreme wealth to influence and manipulate politicians to move and act in ways that favor their potential to accumulation more wealth. 

Excessive wealth is Power.

Ultra Rich’s point of access to power is in the wallets and purses of our politicians and government leaders. Why else do you think the super-rich give huge sums of money to specific politicians as they run for office. 

Believe you me it’s not out of the generosity of their hearts. It is to be able to pull the strings of their puppets and to wield their power. Otherwise, they’d give equally to each party.

This practice of giving is called being a donor, which seems to make it okay. 

It is not.

Whenever an ultra-rich person gives a donation to a politician in order to tip the scales in their favor, specifically to accumulate more wealth, corruption is happening. 

Why does and should this matter to every American?

Because, if the ultra-rich are manipulating our elected officials to represent their causes then nobody is there to represent the rest of us.

I’d like this to end. 

I’d like the corruption of our politicians to end.

I want my elected officials to represent all Americans not just the Ultra-Rich. 

Do you ever wonder why the collective cultural and possible global mantra, for all, starting from childhood is, “get a job?” 

Remember, as a child, being asked over and over again, “What are you going to be when you grow up?”

Are you making the connections? 

If not, here is how it goes. From day one we are being programmed to be workers. 

Look at the trajectory of life that we all prescribe to, first-day care, then preschool, elementary school, high school, then pay a lot of money to learn a trade or go to college - start your adult life in major debt. Get a job. Make money. Spend everything to fulfill your dreams (does this ever happen?). Teach your children to do the same. Die. The End. 

All of the above my friends is systemic cooperate greed realized through

our bodies, our labor, our spending/consuming. We are the fuel that keeps corporate greed running.

Whether we intend to be or not we are complicit. What makes us complicit is that we do not collectively make it end.

Cooperate greed is a byproduct of Capitalism, which we know is the pursuit of constant growth, which we know is an impossible reality to continue to strive towards. 

And why would we want to? 

What “growth” means - really means is the accumulation of more wealth for the already ultra-rich. 

You can not have a constant growth of anything forever especially when all of life is contained on one planet and that planet is not limitless in its resources. There is x amount of atmosphere, x amount of landmasses, and x amount of sea. There are fluctuations but for the most part, what we have is what we got.

We have to learn to see the earth not as limitless in its potential to serve our desire for more-more-more. But rather as a miraculous grouping of ecological systems that balance off of one another. The balancing mechanisms may not be invisible to our eyes but they are there non the less. When we level mountaintops for coal, or clear-cut forests, or pollute the seas with plastic, or cause catastrophic oil leaks - we the humane race are tipping the balance.  

COVID-19 is a perfect example, somehow, somewhere the balance tipped and something stable became unstable. More than likely the destabilization was caused by man.

If we do not change our mindless and greedy treatment of this planet it is not the planet that will suffer it will be us. The Earth does not need humans to survive. Humans need the Earth to survive. If we continue to unconsciously pollute and deplete the earth's natural resources we will end. The earth will still be here but we will not.

Governments are, in part, formed to help manage the complexities of life here on Earth. Our current government's miss-management of COVID-19 is the perfect example and evidence of a government that is not doing its job. 

In a time when our elected government leaders should be focused on protecting all life, they instead choose to keep the cash flowing to the rich.

This is how it's going down:

First, the economy crashed. And, in only three months. Due to shelter in place orders from the top. The ultra-rich stopped making their vast amounts of money. For them, that was not acceptable. The economy had to be reopened. Our top government leaders, specifically the one at the tip-top, who also happens to be one of the ultra-rich, then passed the buck, laying the responsibility and discission making upon local governments. 

Mind You, all of this is being done while trying to navigate the deep and murky waters of an unprecedented GLOBAL Pandemic. 

local governments are now tasked with the dilemma of prioritizing life or money. And it is not money for me and you. It is money for the ultra-rich. Workers are putting their life at risk, but it is ok according to our current leaders because our life is less important than their continued accumulation of wealth. The wealth that they use to hold power. If you are not in the 1% club your life is disposable. This is where our present-day democracy has arrived - Money versus Life. 

All of which, by the way, is a horrific loop back to our beginnings. Starting with the genocide of America's First People and then the enslavement of Africans. So in a tragic way we are back to where we started. The sacrifice of life for the profit of the white man.

I don’t know about you but I would like to END this version of reality.

Remember as a child questioning everything? It is from that state of mind that a new form of society can be born. There are other ways of being and it is up to us to create them.

Pause here and think about this - a Pandemic stoped a huge portion of the “working” world. People were able to step off the hamster wheel of life. Many had the time and space to relax. We could do this because we were not being worked to death. Then within that same time frame, a single action, the brutal murder of George Floyd, by a police officer - ignited a collective global reaction. 

The Black Lives Matter movement awoke the globe. Let this sink in, because of the pandemic, most people were out of work and because of this, we all had the internal space and time to process and question the status quo. 

We can at any time and in any place begin to compose endings. And, orchestrate new beginnings. We do this by constantly questioning and adjusting and updating our understanding of reality. Present-day reality is not fixed. Nothing is permanent.

Just think, inside the brains of some amazing beautiful humans is the design for change. Change that supports all life - all life meaning the planet and its oceans, nature, wildlife, and humans alike. 

Don’t be fooled by those that say change takes time. Change can happen instantly. Think of 911 and Hiroshima. Change does not have to take hundreds of years to fulfill itself. Change can happen instantly. Sadly, these two examples are violent ones. However, on the other end of the spectrum, there is non-violence. Change through non-violence can happen quickly too. 

Systemic Racism, Capitalism, corporate greed, and all the above-mentioned inequalities, which perpetuate oppression can be changed for the betterment of all of humanity and the planet. 

How?

By holding our elected officials accountable. 

By being sure that democracy is working for all people, not just the minority - the ultra-rich.

As a gentle reminder to all, Democracy is defined as government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. 

“Supreme power is vested in the people,” say that again to your self ten-time and see if it feels like the democracy that you are living in now or ever.

This is why it is so very important to be informed and to vote. When you vote you are exercising your supreme power. 

Democracy only works when every citizen participates.

Another reason why our democracy is challenged is that we have not stood in the truth of our inception and then worked rigorously to make right the wrongs that we have done, we remain trapped within a 240 - something-year-old self-deception loop. Stuck repeating ourselves over and over and over again. Which we will continue to do until we make our wrongs right, which is a holistic way to end things that need to end. 

As we think about endings can we please add war to the list of things that desperately need to end.

The United States of America was formed out of a War and we have perpetuated war ever since. We claim to be making peace but war can never bring about peace. Never not ever. Because war is peace’s opposite and the two exist as a polarity. It’s like asking night and day to flip flop. They can’t. 

As long as we perpetuate the illusions that war makes peace, reality can not be altered. If we want to live on this planet in harmony as a peaceful nation we have to discover new ways to solve war-like issues without going to war.  

Come on people, honestly, at this stage of the game why is anybody still at war. Nobody wins everybody loses. 

Whose bodies are sacrificed in war? 

I’ll give you a hint it is not the rich.

Believe it or not our brains hold alternative ways to solve global crises. 

How about using our minds to solve war generating problems rather than spending billions of dollars to perpetuate senseless death and the illusion of being peacemakers. 

Food for thought - our government spends billions of dollars teaching people in our military to kill. 

Funny. But not, we charge college students hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn a profession that serves the betterment of humanity. 

If you want to be a medical doctor (save lives) it cost about three hundred thousand dollars.

Let this sink in. Really sink in.

Human life should not be disposable especially when it comes to financing someones’ helicopter or yacht purchase, their fourth home, tenth car. Do you get it? We stay at war because it is a billion-dollar industry that lines the pockets of the ultra-rich.

How do we end such a long split tong tale?

By being inquisitive again. Re-Awaken your child-like mind and ask why. And then ask why again until some depth of understanding is ignited and your curiosity guides you to new and different realizations. The place where your knowledge exists within your being derived from a place of deep contemplation and consideration, which is the opposite of being told what to believe. The full comprehension of any given idea not only expands your mind it opens your heart. And nobody can do this for you. We are each one of us responsible for expanding and opening our minds. 

While we are at it can we stop teaching our children a one-sided history? The history we presently teach needs to be updated. History needs to be holistic and inclusive, including the ugly shameful parts. We can only repair what we know. It’s the bad parts that keep us stuck and spinning. Repeating. 

In the vacuum caused by a one-sided history, nonsensical conspiracy theories rise to fill in the void. 

Why do Conspiracy theories easily replace reality or trump history? 

Because following and attaching to conspiracy theories entertain. One gets to weave their own possible outcomes, which is far more fun then dealing with a past wrought with anguish and suffering.

No work is required to be entertained. To be entertained is to have something done too and for you, one has to simply receive entertainment.

To untangle and make transparent a history that has erased the history of others who coexist within that same history is hard work. And, with so much time stretched out between the tale

telling, forgetting feels easier than remembering. One might hear their internal voice say “I’m not responsible for what others did so lone ago.” 

When one attaches their thoughts to the phrase, “I’m not responsible…,” a profound intellectual disconnect occurs. The potential of participating in making what is wrong - right, ends. By disassociating one takes the passenger seat on a motorcycle side-car zipping along the stream of interconnectedness. It is irrelevant if one chooses to tag along, rather than jump in the mud, because life is going to do what life does, with or without us.  

All of life - everything on this planet is connected. We do not choose to participate in interconnectedness - or not. The planet Earth, by its nature, connects every element of existence. It is that simple. Interconnectedness happens with or without our participation. 

Remember nothing is fixed or permanent all of like is in flux.

COVID 19 and The Black Lives Matter movement might be the forces needed to realize the beginning of the end of oppression. And if not, at the very least, we are witnessing, participating, and hopefully learning what creating endings looks like. 

Inevitably. Everything on this earth man-made or otherwise does eventually end.

Let’s make endings by our design and not leave it up to chance.

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This Yogi Bled Through Her White Pants to Prove a Strong Point About Periods

I am a woman, therefore, I bleed. . It's messy, it's painful, it's terrible, & it's beautiful. . And yet, you wouldn't know. Because I hide it. . I bury things at the bottom of the trash. I breathe, ragged and awkward through the cramps, all the while holding onto this tight lipped, painted on smile. . Tampons? What are those. We don't say those words out loud. Hide them. In the back pocket of your purse, in the corner of the bathroom drawer, at the very bottom of your shopping cart (please let me get a female cashier). . Events or engagements get missed. I'll tell myself it's the PMS, sure, but it has more to with the risk of being "caught," at what...I'm not quite sure. . And I'm lucky. . Over 100 million young women around the globe miss school or work for lack of adequate menstrual supplies, & fear of what might happen if the world witnesses A NATURAL BODILY FUNCTION. . WHY? . Because hundreds of years of culture have made us embarrassed to bleed. Have left us feeling dirty and ashamed. . STOP PRETENDING. Stop using silly pet names like Aunt Flo because you're too afraid to say "I'm bleeding" or "vagina." Stop wasting so much effort hiding the very thing that gives this species continuity. . START talking about it. Educate your daughters. Make them understand that it can be both an inconvenience and a gift, but NEVER something to be ashamed about. Educate your sons so they don't recoil from the word tampon. So when a girl bleeds through her khaki shorts in third period (pun intended), they don't perpetuate the cycle of shame and intolerance. . This #StartSomethingSunday , I want to highlight @corawomen . . Cora Women is a 100% Organic tampon company. . But that's not all. They are also breaking barriers. Making it ok to talk about periods, even on social media. Providing personalized, delivered tampon/pad orders right to your door. AND for every box purchased, donating a box of sustainable pads to girls who can't afford menstruation products. . Fuck yeah. That's the kind of stuff I can galvanize behind, no money or even product needed. Just a mission I support on a topic we should ALL be talking about. . More ⬇️

A video posted by Steph Gongora (@casa_colibri) on Feb 5, 2017 at 11:06am PST

From those awkward adolescent bathroom trips all the way through adulthood, periods have remained an unnecessarily taboo topic, and now, one woman is confronting all those hush-hush menstrual moments while bleeding through her white yoga pants. Stephanie Góngora is a 30-year-old yogi who, just like most women, fears her heavy flow and the possibility of bleeding through her pants. But in an effort to face those fears, Stephanie decided to record herself doing what she does best, a yoga sequence, but she did so while bleeding through her *gasp* white pants.

"I am a woman, therefore, I bleed," she wrote alongside the video above. "It's messy, it's painful, it's terrible, & it's beautiful. And yet, you wouldn't know. Because I hide it. I bury things at the bottom of the trash. I breathe, ragged and awkward through the cramps, all the while holding onto this tight lipped, painted on smile. Tampons? What are those. We don't say those words out loud. Hide them. In the back pocket of your purse, in the corner of the bathroom drawer, at the very bottom of your shopping cart (please let me get a female cashier)."

Stephanie's perfectly balanced poses are just one of the many things that make this post so impressive. Her ability to open up and tackle this scorned topic is admirable. She opened up to Cosmopolitan about her past as a young gymnast often overwhelmed with the fear that she'd bleed through her leotard, and she has had the same fears as a yoga instructor in her adult life.

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"The possibility of leaking through even two super-plus tampons and a pad during an hour-long class enveloped my life," Stephanie said. "I would hide tampons in my sleeve or take my whole purse to the bathroom. If a spot of blood made it past my arsenal and onto my pants, I would tie a giant sweatshirt around my waist and spend the rest of the day exquisitely stressed out about someone seeing it and finding out the truth: that I bleed, and sometimes, I leak."

But Stephanie began to wonder why she felt so ashamed of her body's natural flow and decided she didn't want to hide it anymore.

"I knew a bright red blood spot on pristine white pants would make a statement in a society that rarely takes the time to actually read," she told Cosmo. "Leaks are such a typical occurrence for me, and something, I believe, women shouldn't have to be ashamed of."

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Yogi dressed in white shares powerful statement about period shame

Yogi Steph Gongora used a recent Instagram post to make a point about period shame.

Image: @CASA_COLIBRI / INSTAGRAM

Yoga instructor Steph Gongora did something bold this week. Dressed in white, she got onto her mat and filmed herself in various poses that revealed a red stain from her period.

Then she put the clip on Instagram, where she now has more than 258,000 followers.

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By Saturday, the post had been viewed 208,000 times and elicited more than 4,400 comments, both cruel and kind. Some were disturbed by the imagery while others were inspired by Gongora’s message.

Her hope, she said in the post, was to help people who menstruate feel less ashamed of a natural bodily function.

I am a woman, therefore, I bleed. . It’s messy, it’s painful, it’s terrible, & it’s beautiful. . And yet, you wouldn’t know. Because I hide it. . I bury things at the bottom of the trash. I breathe, ragged and awkward through the cramps, all the while holding onto this tight lipped, painted on smile. . Tampons? What are those. We don’t say those words out loud. Hide them. In the back pocket of your purse, in the corner of the bathroom drawer, at the very bottom of your shopping cart (please let me get a female cashier). . Events or engagements get missed. I’ll tell myself its the PMS, sure, but it has more to with the risk of being “caught,” at what…I’m not quite sure. . And Im lucky. . Over 100 million young women around the globe miss school or work for lack of adequate menstrual supplies, & fear of what might happen if the world witnesses A NATURAL BODILY FUNCTION. . WHY? . Because hundreds of years of culture have made us embarrassed to bleed. Have left us feeling dirty and ashamed. . STOP PRETENDING. Stop using silly pet names like Aunt Flo because you’re too afraid to say “I’m bleeding” or “vagina.” Stop wasting so much effort hiding the very thing that gives this species continuity. . START talking about it. Educate your daughters. Make them understand that it can be both an inconvenience and a gift, but NEVER something to be ashamed about. Educate your sons so they don’t recoil from the word tampon. So when a girl bleeds through her khaki shorts in third period (pun intended), they don’t perpetuate the cycle of shame and intolerance. . This #StartSomethingSunday , I want to highlight @corawomen . . Cora Women is a 100% Organic tampon company. . But thats not all. They are also breaking barriers. Making it ok to talk about periods, even on social media. Providing personalized, delivered tampon/pad orders right to your door. AND for every box purchased, donating a box of sustainable pads to girls who can’t afford menstruation products. . Fuck yeah. That’s the kind of stuff I can galvanize behind, no money or even product needed. Just a mission I support on a topic we should ALL be talking about. . More

A video posted by Steph Gongora (@casa_colibri) on Feb 5, 2017 at 11:06am PST

“I am a woman, therefore, I bleed,” she wrote. “It’s messy, it’s painful, it’s terrible, & it’s beautiful. And yet, you wouldn’t know. Because I hide it. I bury things at the bottom of the trash. I breathe, ragged and awkward through the cramps, all the while holding onto this tight lipped, painted on smile.”

Gongora urged people to talk openly about menstruation so that girls will understand it both as an “inconvenience and a gift” and boys will never “recoil from the word tampon.”

Her post is the latest high-profile effort to defy period shame. Last year, Newsweek ran a cover story on how the fight to end the stigma was going “mainstream.” In 2015, musician Kiran Gandhi received viral coverage for running the London Marathon without a tampon and, in 2016, YouTube star Ingrid Nilsen drew a big audience for asking President Obama about the sales tax on pads and tampons.

Gongora, who recently started sharing causes and nonprofit organizations with her followers, also used her post to highlight Cora, an organic tampon company that donates pads to some of the estimated 100 million girls around the world who lack access to menstrual products.

“That’s the kind of stuff I can galvanize behind, no money or even product needed,” Gongora wrote. “Just a mission I support on a topic we should ALL be talking about.”

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