Hispanic Heritage 2025 (My booklist on Tejano, Chicano, Mexican American literature)
What a change in space and time right now. I'm writing to you after a brutal but grateful final ecliptic season of this astrological year. Never have the words from the Temple in Delphi meant so much to me , "Know Thyself". And, as the wheel of the year turns, as my oldest nephews' wedding gets closer, and as I watch my years behind me and anticipate those ahead of me, I find it a struggle to stay centered, balanced, to "be here, right now" (Baba Ram Das' friendly reminder floods my mind) As we enter the darker half of the year, I am called to collect artifacts of my culture, and heritage and to display in a more predominant light the lived narratives of many South Texas, Tejano and Texan Mexican identities. It is through their written work, through words and visual art, through performance and lore, and most importantly their oral storytelling traditions that cultivate the Mexican American diaspora of the Tejano-Mexican-American duality. This is impor...
