La vida real

I woke up this morning realizing it was the King holiday and that in my life, this holiday is more important than traditional holidays like Christmas. I woke up thinking about real life.

I woke up this morning thinking about real life and how we can reach out and touch it now. This is the game they use to teach intermediate Spanish at the University of New Mexico. This is the Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures as given at Columbia. These things are part of real life.

This is the global peace index, and this is the U.S. peace index showing Louisiana as the least peaceful state by far. This is Words Without Borders. This is African Diaspora, Ph.D. This is a professor with a joint appointment in Spanish/Portuguese Studies and Law. These things are part of real life, too.

Unreal life is the life of competing downward. In this world people are committed to discourses of scarcity and also difficulty, at a metaphysical level. They call intuition impulse, and fear realism.

Axé.


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