A Curandero's Workbench

How to deal with the Hispanic causing panic? Being New Mexican usually affords you a dog in the fight about how Spanish one is. This post is...

 I learned in my late 20's that race was a construct and not a biological marker.  This expanded my perplexed attitude towards my percep...

It seems surprising that we still use Race as a categorical demographic despite the word having no truth, being fabricated, and its toxicit...

This is my first encounter with feeling inspired to collaborate with a Saint. “He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works wi...

I think I have learned from my entanglement with discrepancy that we all want to see ourselves as overcoming the impossible.  What has ...

Matthew 7:3-5 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?  Or how can yo...

I have dreamed of being an instrument of healing.  I have had grandiose thoughts of being the change I'd like to see in the world.  I ha...

How can we measure our profit margin for an investment in social innovation.  There isn't one.  What I find is that there is a passion...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate One nation under God, indivisible, and Justice for those who are...

I need a license to work with youth who desperately work to hate the licensed.  We have a license for things that can be harmful.  Counselin...

We spend money where we don't put our minds.  So it is more like putting our money where our asses are.  I recently watched a talk on ed...

In the software industry there is a balance between innovation and maintenance. This healthy balance allows the industry to both sustain an...

I find it interesting that close to half the people in the United States consider the government a gravy train. Yet these same folks jump a...

In my world I am taught to find the answers. In my daily routine I am asked to seek out solutions to problems. I think in listening to my ...

There is a bigotry I see in the distribution of ideas. There are ideas that are discouraged, smudged, feared, or ignored. There is a poet...

I think generations of New Mexicans are inundated with trends and superficiality leading to the acceptance of inferiority and imposition of ...

In today's economic struggle we see the unfortunate consequence of materialism and a desire for sustained growth. I see it in my longi...

I find that when I create animosity it thrives in me. I think maturity allows me to process animosity in my thoughts, actions, and memories...

When a country creates laws, it creates precedent, which often create patterns resulting in a culture of condemnation. This judging culture...

A tradition practiced in my family, is Lent! I hear the same old message from the pulpit, and recognize why so many Catholics can identif...