Community building requires community healing. And what does that look like?

"Staying ‘home’ and not venturing out from our own group comes from woundedness, and stagnates our growth. To bridge means loosening our borders, not closing off to others….To bridge is to attempt community, and for that we must risk being open to personal, political, and spiritual intimacy, to risk being wounded."- Gloria Anzaldua

"Quedarse en la casa'' y no aventurarse fuera de nuestro propio grupo viene donde estamos heridos y proviene nuestro crecimiento. Para hacer puentes signifa que abriemos mas de nuestras fronteras y que no cierremos a otros… Para hacer puentes es intentar comunidad, y para eso tenemos que corre el riesgo de ser abierto a personal, político y espiritual intimidad, a correr el riesgo de ser heridos. "
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Gloria Anzaldua


Everybody is waiting for the movement to happen ! And we dont realize we are the movement. Its me and you coming together and having some honest and maybe painful truthtelling between us. But there is probably some beautiful thing we will create together as a result. I want to speak to each person in my community.Let's get the party going.

Todo el mundo está esperando a que el movimiento a ocurrir! Y nosotros no darse cuenta de que somos el movimiento. Comienza la communidad cuando usted y yo tienemos algunos conversaciones doloroso pero verdarosos . Pero es probable que algunos bellos cosas que es probablemente vamos a crear juntos . Quiero hablar con cada person en mi communidad.Vamos a comienzar esta fiesta !




Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Rocio Durcal - Amor Eterno

TRUE LOVE FOR ANOTHER COMES FROM SELF LOVE

As a teenager, I used to listen to Rocio's album over and over. Ah, how I spent many days singing along with her on other Juan Gabriel's songs. Juan Gabriel is an openly Mexican gay songwriter and singer who is well loved everywhere. Music is music and people dont care really.
After coming out, I learned so many jotos/as loved her. I wasnt the only one. Mention Rocio to latina lesbians and sale un swoon.
When I did a pilgrimage to Mexico and in San Juan de Los Lagos, Jalisco, we did a special mass and procession for our people. We all pitched in to pay for the church service and the conjunto band of teens to play music for us while we walked around the plaza. When we got to the steps of the church, Mrs.Aguallo, who had lost her husband a few years before, requested they sing "Amor Eterno". This was their song. This is my song for you, my lost one. May you find you way home soon.You are loved. Eres amor.

Tu eres la tristeza de mis ojos
que lloran en silencio por tu amor
me miro en el espejo y veo en mi rostro
el tiempo que he sufrido por tu adios

Obligo a que te olvide el pensamiento
pues siempre estoy pensando en el ayer
prefiero estar dormida que despierta
de tanto que me duele que no estes

Como quisiera ahhh que tu vivieras
que tus ojitos jamas se hubieran
cerrado nunca y estar mirandolos

Amor eterno e inolvidable
tarde o temprano estare contigo
para seguir amandonos

Yo he sufrido tanto por tu ausencia
que desde ese dia hasta hoy no soy feliz
y aunque tengo tranquila mi conciencia
se que pude haber yo hecho mas por ti

Oscura soledad estoy viviendo
la misma soledad de tu sepulcro
tu eres el amor del cual yo tengo
el mas triste recuerdo de Acapulco

Como quisiera ahhh que tu vivieras
que tus ojitos jamas se hubieran
cerrado nunca y estar mirandolos
amor eterno e inolvidable
tarde o temprano estare contigo
para seguir amandonos

Amor eterno (amore eterno) eterno....


Eternal Love
You are the sadness in my eyes
silently crying for your love
I look in the mirror and see my face
the time I have suffered for your goodbye

Force myself to forget the thought
I'm always thinking about it yesterday
I'd rather be asleep than awake
it hurts so much that your are not here with me

Ahhh I'm wanting you to be alive
your eyes never have been
never be closed and watching

Eternal love and unforgettable
sooner or later I will be with you
to continue loving you again

I have suffered so much for your absence
that from that day till today I am not happy
and although I quiet my conscience
I know I could have done more for you

Dark living loneliness
the same solitude of your grave
you are the love of which I have
The saddest memory of Acapulco

Ahhh I'm wanting to be alive with you
your eyes never have been
never be closed and watching
eternal love and unforgettable
sooner or later I will be with you
to continue loving you

Eternal Love (amore eterno) eternal .

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Marcell and the Truth YOU SAVED ME



Need I say more?...Te mando mas healing..may you find peace and your way home