#guadalupe grande

[las-microfisuras]

Gravedad

Decirte cómo pesa el amor

como pesa sobre algún hombro,

el tuyo, el mío

y el peso del camino y

el peso del dolor

que ningún cuerpo sostiene.

_ Irene Gruss, en "La luz en la ventana", El escarabajo de oro, Buenos Aires, 1982

_ Foto: Guadalupe Grande Aguirre.

#irene gruss #guadalupe grande

[la-semillera]

ESTHER FERRER & GUADALUPE GRANDE

«Letanía sin nosotros»

Es en este tiempo incierto, intacto, es en este instante desnudo, sin palabras, sin nosotros, tan sólo tendido suavemente en el olvido. Es bajo esta lluvia muda y ciega, esta lluvia sin nosotros, esta hora sin nosotros, Este agua sin sed. Es. Es sin siempre, es sin memoria, es sin llanto y sin risa, es sin miedo y sin gracias te sean dadas. Es, como si eso fuera poco, sin causa y sin remedio, a pesar nuestro, Y es, desde luego, sin calles ni avenidas, sin fuentes ni estaciones, sin la tristeza que da mirar el firmamento.

Guadalupe Grande, de El libro de Lilit Ed. Renacimiento 1996

Autorretrato de 2020 de Esther Ferrer, 'Geste barriére: 1 Metro', 

#guadalupe grande #esther ferrer

[caviarsonoro]

Hauschka - Mount Hood [Foreign Landscapes]

Olvidar es sólo un artificio del sonido;

tan sólo un perpetuo acabamiento que va

de la carne a la piel y de la piel al hueso.

Así como las palabras primero son de agua

y luego de barro

y después de piedra y de viento.

Guadalupe Grande (De El libro de Lilit. Ed. Renacimiento, 1996)

#youtube #guadalupe grande #El libro de Lilit #hauschka #foreign landscapes #piano

[mysterious-secret-garden]

José Guadalupe Posada - Gran calavera eléctrica, c. 1900-13.

"Gran calavera eléctrica" (Grand electric skull) "Print shows large skeleton hypnotizing a group of skulls and a sitting skeleton; an electric street car, with skeletons as passengers, is in the background."

#José Guadalupe Posada #Grand electric skull #Gran calavera eléctrica #death #cemetery

[araminakilla]

Day 2: THEY KNOW!? (aka, monsters among us)

Before explaining what does the tittle mean and who are "they", here is a new clip of the movie with Sara, Pickles and we finally hear what Ramirez sounds like in the original dub (it's beautiful):

(Sara arrives at the Louvre Museum. She gasps as she sees all the mess outside)

Reporter 1: Tad Stones strikes again. First Chicago and now Paris.

Reporter 2: The french police joins the persecution of the dangerous criminal Tad Stones.

Reporter 3: Vampires, zombies, aliens. Are they living among us?

Agent Pickles (looking at the "fixed" Mona Lisa): Ah. There are people who only want to see the world burn (sneezes)

Agent Ramirez: Pickles, look at this.

Pickles: Oh, how I want to capture that Stones and apply him the key to sleep.

Ramirez: (sighs) Listen. They are going to the Nile's waterfall. We should alert-

Pickles: (not listening) The key to sleep Ramirez is the first thing you learn at the CIA. One touch on a vital point and the enemy falls unconscious.

Ramirez: Can you do me the favor to listen!? And you can't eat here!

Pickles: Seriously? (he eats the croissant entirely) Problem solved. (sneezes again)

The Mona Lisa: *is ruined again*

Ramirez: (sees the painting and gasps)

Pickles: Ah (looks at Ramirez, guilty)

-----------------------------------------------

So, to resume: Tad is considered an international dangerous criminal, the agents are there after they failed to capture the team (with Pickles being sick for falling into the water), Ramirez founds out about the group's journey thanks to Mummy's account, Pickles is in his own world (or his own case) and...

The reporter mentioned something about monsters hidding in plain sight!?

This guy (who I suppose is paranormal TV host Iker Jimenez's cameo) just dropped what we could considerate a massive bomb on us and what could change the franchise forever.

People have seen the mummies, people have recognized as real monsters. There is a TV channel that is broadcasting other types of monsters to possibly live among them. People got curious about the unknow that they are debating whenever this is true or not. And if it's confirmed at the end that it's true?

What does that mean for Victoria Moon? Will her TV show increase in ratings? For the mummies, are they going to expose themselves to the human world?

For people like Rackham, Max or Oddyseus, does that mean free cash is on their way and will take advantage of the fact that monsters don't have rights that could protect them?

Gente, this is getting out of hand, in a really good way. I hope things don't get on the status quo of "cool costume, special effects or it was bait all along" becuase the concept of monsters being a minority in a world full of humans sounds promising. Also the fact the there could be more monsters out there who are just hidding. Maybe they will start to come out after the mummies reveal themselves to the public. Maybe one of said monsters is the antagonist or villain of the fourth movie.

Again, they have the potential. Crossing fingers the crew recognize it as well.

#tadeo jones #tadeo jones 3 #tad the lost explorer #tad the lost explorer 3 #tadeo jones meta #tadeo jones theory #agent pickles #agent ramirez #sam pickles #guadalupe ramirez #sara lavroff #And presenting... #La Joconde avec un grand sourire Joker et un croissant #a painting made by Leonardo Da Vinci #fixed by Inca Mummy #and with a touch of croissant a la Pickle #yeah that painting is history #in all the senses of the word #i want vampires in the franchise #i know they are overused #but i want to see them interact with the mummies #maybe that could be the base of the Mummy spin off #finding more monsters #giving them a second chance #well there is always one who is relucant #could be the antagonist #tad 3 countdown

[burchcobb]

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[jujuygrafico]

Jujuy dio cuenta de la agenda de Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible

#Institucionales | #Jujuy dio cuenta de la agenda de #ObjetivosdeDesarrolloSostenible

Jujuy dio cuenta de la agenda de Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) en el consejo regional del Norte Grande que se realizó en la Ciudad de Santiago del Estero y participaron los Puntos Focales ODS de las provincias de Salta, Santiago del Estero, La Rioja, Chaco, Corrientes y Misiones. La representación de la Provincia estuvo a cargo del secretario de Planeamiento, Guillermo Corro; la…

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#Chaco #Corrientes #Eleonora Cornejo #Guadalupe Bravo Almonacid #Guillermo Corro #Jujuy #La Rioja #Misiones #Norte Grande #Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible #ODS #ODS 2030 #Puntos Focales ODS #Salta #Santiago del Estero

[cameronspecial]

The Help

Pairing: Rafe Cameron x Reader

Warnings: Racist Remark Against Hispanics, Swearing, and Suggestive Ending

Pronouns: She/Her

Word Count: 0.6K

Summary: Tannyhill gets a visitor who can't help but see Y/N below her class.

A/N: Inspired by this post.

Masterlist

The front door to Tannyhill opens without a knock or an occupant from inside twisting the knob. Rafe is out on a run while Y/N is cleaning up the breakfast mess. He had made the meal so it was only fair that she took care of it. At first, she wasn’t sure about moving into the grand home when Rafe inherited it from Ward’s will, but he was quick to convince the girl it was better than living in her shack of a house on the Cut. She is wiping down the counter with her hair in a messy bun when the clatter of heels echoes through the house. Rose and Wheezie moved to the Guadalupe house after Ward’s death because Tannyhill held too many memories and Sarah moved in with John B. so the steps couldn’t belong to them. Y/N’s gaze flicks upward to find a redhead walking into the kitchen. “Ahh, finally signs of life in this house. You know you should really start with cleaning the front entrance before you clean the kitchen. The chandelier is dusty. Did Rafe fire Mrs. Lockmeyer?” the unidentified woman criticizes. Y/N realizes the other woman thinks she is the help and plays along, “Mrs. Lockmeyer is sick for the day.” It isn’t a lie, the cleaner did say she had to come in at a later day in the week because of an illness. 

“I’m glad Rafe didn’t fire her. She always did such a good job with rearranging my shoes and didn’t leave streaks on the windows like that dumb Hispanic. I don’t think she even understood English. Where is Rafe anyways?” 

“R- Mr. Cameron is out on a run. May I ask who you are?”

“Right, you are new. I’m Natasha. Rafe’s girlfriend.”

“Really? Mr. Cameron didn’t tell me about you.”

Natasha gives Y/N a belittling look, “Don’t say it like that. It’s not like you have a chance with him. But to be completely honest, I broke up with him. It was a mistake though and I’m here to rectify that. Bring my bags in. I’m going to get settled in his room.” Y/N has no time to protest before Natasha makes her way upstairs. Right on time, Rafe jogs into the kitchen with his earbuds dangling from his neck and his skin glistening with sweat. He goes to get a cool bottle of water from the fridge and kisses Y/N on the cheek. She thinks about telling him about his guest, yet she has an even more delicious way of getting back at Natasha for just walking into her home and assuming she didn’t belong there with a glance. “I’m going to go take a shower. I’ll be waiting for you to join me,” he mutters against her skin. She gives him a small nod and lets him lead the way upstairs. She lags behind him, waiting for him to enter first. Her feet pause in front of her bedroom door. 

“What the fuck. Natasha, what are you doing in my bedroom?” she hears Rafe scream inside. She holds back a snicker. Natasha responds, “Didn’t the help tell you I was upstairs?” “The help?” Rafe repeats with confusion. Y/N takes this as her opportunity to make herself known and enters the bedroom. Her arms loosely wrap around Rafe’s waist and she presses a kiss to his cheek. “I’m ready for that shower now, Handsome,” she mumbles loud enough for everyone to hear. She leaves no time to further be a part of the conversation, walking toward the bathroom and taking her shirt off to throw to Rafe. 

Natasha looks back and forward between the couple, her mouth falling open as she pieces the puzzle together. “You are dating the help?” she questions. Of course, the only thing she can see Y/N as is someone to serve a Kook. Rafe’s jaw clenches, “No. I’m dating my girlfriend. Now, if you would see yourself out, I have to go make love to my girlfriend in the shower.”

Taglist: @winterrrnight @loves0phelia @thelomlisrafecameron @wickedlovely121 @thepatriarchykeychain @drewsmusee @starkowswife @maybankslover @forstarkey @loving-and-dreaming

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[latinotiktok]

Propaganda:

Link BOTW/TOTK.

-Miralo. Short king. Builds possibly dangerous and random contraptions in his garage. Eats anything and everything. Cooks like a god. Good taste in seasonings. Rides a motorcycle. That's all peak latino behavior.

-link de the legend of zelda. es muy silly para mi y es latine en mi corazoncito <333

-link legend of zelda es mexicano. lo sé en mi corazón. fácilmente puedo verlo comiendo pan de muerto y haciendo el maratón guadalupe-reyes (comer hasta el hartazgo desde el 12 de diciembre hasta el 6 de enero)

-Link Legend of Zelda pq 1) en su vida pasada era moreno el me dijo 2)le sabe chambear como buen latinoamericano. trabajando para la hija del patron literal

-Link del twilight princess

Razones: -si -el pibe vive de cuidar las vacas(son cabras pero shhh), es gaucho en mi corazon -short king y conozco muchos short kings en mi pueblo -por favor

#link es mexicano porque o sea. nomás' mira sus creaciones. mi compa tiene ingenio mexicano

#DALE ZELDA DALE#PASAME LA TRIFUERZA QUE TENGO HAMBRE#Y TRAEME UNA BOTELLA DE ZORA GRANDE

#that one post that says link is the whole lgbt+ community but this time link is whole latin america#loz

#link is just such a latino hes indigenous latino and i say because im centroamericana that he's centroamericano.#guatemalan link#the only reason hes not moreno is he was sleeping for 100 years that makes one look like a gringito#his fangs and the way he finds new clothes and immediately wears them and mixes and matches and ALWAYS serves...peak latino behavior#we need more silent latino men rep 🥰

Pirateria

Vi a alguien decir que la piratería (as in, the concept) debe ser latino y apoyo la moción, so here i am to say la piratería es mi bebita fiu fiu

#nada en este mundo es mas latino q piratiando

#VAMONOS YO MANEJO *c sube a un barco pirata claramente robado*

#IT HAS TO BE PIRACY Y'ALL#brazilians pirate shit for breakfast at this point#and the best fucking part#was buying those pirated dvds#and at the very beggining of the movie#they'd show an anti-piracy ad#like dude please it's vote piracy

#canonize your blorbo as latino tournament #polls #round 2

[angelkakewritings]

Suck It and See. (Rodolfo Parra x Reader)

Written by: ANGELKAKEWRITINGS

18+ MDNI

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the canon characters of the COD franchise including Rodolfo Parra.

Pronouns Used: She/Her/Hers

CW: NSFW, Oral Sex (M receiving) , Porn with a plot, Implications of power imbalance between Rodolfo and reader, cumming without warning (poor rudy lol), Rodolfo being a big simp for reader, lust, car sex, semi-public sex, kissing, mutual crush, kissing after a blowjob, Rodolfo speaking spanish.

Author’s Note: Hello again :3 I hope you guys have been doing well! I’ve been back again on a COD streak as MW2 is a comfort game of mine filled with my favorite comfort characters including Rudy <3, I hope we get to see him again and the rest of the vaqueros soon. With that being said, please enjoy this little piece I wrote, it includes a line from Quentin Tarantino’s last movie that inspired this fic. Also, I heard the last line somewhere in a song but I can’t remember if it’s an AM song or Fontaines DC but all credit where credit is due <3!

The sunlight that cascaded down like honey made the city of Las Almas appear like the vibrant swatches from a fauvism palette. The splendid horizon of his hometown that was adorned in grand murals of La Virgen De Guadalupe and decorated with banners of summer colored papel picado were not as kind on the eyes as the little woman that sat beside him in the passenger’s side.

She was his comrade, his fellow soldier and a friend.

But after witnessing the pretty image of her beestung lips wrapped around the rim of a Coke, Rodolfo found himself pathetically wishing to be pressed into a glass bottle and be taken internally by her.

He was a quiet and stoic sergeant that was driven by logic not emotion. But when it came to her? He found himself being reduced to nothing more than a simple, defenseless man.

(1)

“You want me to suck your cock while driving?”

“Perdoname?”

The vulgarity of the question was softened by her bunny pink tongue and her glossy eyes that watched in delight at the sight of Rodolfo’s ears burning a bright red. The sensation of his insides being reduced and melted down into a gelatinous mass brought him back to his adolescence where he could remember trembling in his vintage Reebok shoes before sharing his first kiss behind the building.

His rich chocolate brown eyes flickered between the open road and back to the beauty who was now sitting on her side with her supple thighs crossed over each other. She was waiting ever so patiently with her button of the seatbelt mimicking the way she would appear on the battlefield with her finger over the trigger and ready to make her kill.

He pondered over her siren-like ability of luring men to their death both on and off the battlefield.

‘Did she get a kick out of making men fall like dominos?’

“H-here?”

Her lips curled into a feline-like grin as she nodded her head.

“Only if you’re comfortable, Sergeant.”

Rodolfo was paralyzed in absolute happiness as he presented puppy dog-like eyes before nodding his head back in response.

(2)

Breaking free from the bondage of the seatbelt, she crawled over his lap like a deadly little succubus to claw and paw at the utility belt that sat on the concave of his pelvis to allow his erection to spring free from its constraint.

Her mouth watered at the sight of his dick, how it wept delicious droplets of pre-cum at the simple sensation of her plush tits pressed against his lap.

“Carajo…” Rodolfo involuntarily hissed under his breath as her soft lips wrapped around his girth to place wet kisses to his mushroom headed tip before slowly devouring his flesh hole. He found himself slack jawed at her warm and wet buccal lining wrapping around his veiny cock as she bobbed her head back and forth.

He took a hand off of the steering wheel to intertwine his gloved finger into her loose and glossy hair, encouraging her to take him further down.

Shamelessly, she looked to her side to look up at her superior who was whimpering and dripping sweat from the temples of his forehead as his dick protruded under the skin of her dewy cheek.

The air around them suddenly felt so thick that not even a wasp knife could break through the atmosphere, his hand traced down her spine and down to her tailbone where he would cup handfuls of her plump ass as she worked on him.

“F-fuck…” Rodolfo slurred out as he was on a euphoric high from having the girl of his dreams pressing her doll-like nose against his pubic bone.

Without warning but no harm, his thick semen flowed down her throat and coated the inside of her mouth as the sweet symphony of his curses and grunts filled the air of the van.

But before the young woman got a chance to catch her breath, Rodolfo pressed his lips against her lip oil and semen covered ones in an angel soft kiss.

It's not like they were falling in love, he just wanted to let her know she was doing him no good.

#fanfic #oneshot #writing inspiration #my writing #mw2 fanfic #rodolfo parra x reader #rodolfo parra x you #rodolfo parra smut #mw2 smut #cod modern warfare #COD #las almas

[huellas-poeticas]

Estas ruinas que una vez fueron carne y voz

están hoy abandonadas a nuestro cuidado

somos los responsables de su eternidad

Después de cocinar el adobe

llegó la alegría de los muros

y el aliento de las ventanas

caía la tarde

como por la cuchara resbala la miel

atardecía despacio

dándonos tiempo para entender la noche

descendían las horas

en la desnudez del aire

el viento aromaba las sombras

caída la tarde

el miedo no tenía nombre.

Guadalupe Grande

#poetas en español #poetry #books and libraries #art #books libraries #romance #quotes #culture #love quotes #spilled thoughts #architecture #life #travel #fashion #writing #writers #writers on tumblr #photography #photographers on tumblr #spilled ink #poets on tumblr #prose

[las-microfisuras]

El vuelo

La vida nos sabe a poco el mar no nos basta Somos un signo de interrogación que ha perdido su pregunta

Y sobre todas las tristezas el vuelo ensimismado del trapecio

-pronuncié tu nombre más solitario tu nombre hecho de ausencia mínimo conjuro de sílabas que nombra la falta sin límites de tu tamaño palabra inhóspita que lleva a una región de aire en la que el equilibrio es un calvario

-conozco bien esta vocación de aire esta opulenta miseria este esplendor de la tristeza este ultraje de las redes y del tiempo Conozco bien el desatino de las palabras que nombran las ausencias

Huir es regresar eternamente

_ Guadalupe Grande.

La autora Guadalupe Grande, en una imagen familiar sin datar con sus padres, los poetas Francisca Aguirre y Félix Grande. ARCHIVO GUADALUPE GRANDE

#guadalupe grande aguirre #guadalupe grande #francisca aguirre #félix grande

[la-semillera]

GUADALUPE GRANDE

«Pienso que escribir poesía sea quizá una derrota necesaria. Pienso en la palabra derrota y me abrazo a ella como el náufrago se abraza a la última ola. Pienso en la palabra naufragio. Escribo la palabra naufragio y veo las calles de una ciudad, la gente que viene y va, como las olas, el movimiento confuso de las cosas y los seres: tal vez los restos de un viaje transoceánico que nunca supimos a dónde conducía y que ha llegado hasta aquí, hasta la palabra naufragio, hasta la palabra derrota. Escribo la palabra derrota y pienso en la palabra sentido: en el sentido de abrazarse a la última ola, de abrazarse al rescoldo, a la memoria que tartamudea en el centro de cada palabra, a la ceniza desde la que la memoria arde en los ojos, al hueco oceánico y ceniciento por el que se desploman las palabras y que siento como la única juntura posible. Ver, mirar, hablar. Pienso en las palabras, su rescoldo, su ceniza, su sonido, su música de sentido. Pienso en la poesía como en las palabras de un náufrago. Pienso en cada poema como en las últimas palabras de este naufragio, de esta derrota necesaria. No sé si me acerco a lo que pienso».

— Guadalupe Grande en el 16º Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín (2006).

#guadalupe grande

[madlori]

National Parks progress

I haven't posted about this in awhile. I'm going to pass the halfway mark in May (they keep making it harder, though, four new National Parks have been added since I started this ten years ago).

Here's where I've been. I have a trip planned for May, those are in italics.

Cuyahoga Valley

Great Smoky Mountains

Mammoth Cave

Congaree

Grand Canyon

Petrified Forest

Big Bend

Guadalupe Mountains

Carlsbad Caverns

White Sands

Saguaro

Shenandoah 

Acadia 

Joshua Tree 

Badlands 

Wind Cave 

Theodore Roosevelt 

Hot Springs 

Channel Islands

Biscayne

Everglades

Dry Tortugas

Glacier Bay

Wrangell St-Elias

Kenai Fjords

Denali

New River Gorge

Indiana Dunes

Voyageurs

Arches (May 2024)

Canyonlands (May 2024)

Capitol Reef (May 2024)

Mesa Verde (May 2024)

Black Canyon of the Gunnison (May 2024)

#national parks #bucket list

[bodyalive]

On the Texas Border, Folk Healers Bring Modern Touches to Their Ancient Practice

Known as curanderas, they carry on a tradition long revered in local Hispanic culture.

By Edgar Sandoval

Photographs by Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas

Edgar Sandoval grew up in Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley, where Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas lives and where both covered this story.

Dec. 16, 2023

On a recent day, Chriselda Hernandez heard a knock at her door in the Texas border town of Edinburg. It was a college student who said she was suffering from a string of bad luck. A drunken driver had crashed into her car. Then someone broke into the new car she was driving and stole her laptop. “I need a limpia,” she pleaded — a spiritual cleanse.

Ms. Hernandez moved to an altar in her living room that bore an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Slowly, she mixed a concoction of sage and palo santo, a wood native to South America, and lit it with a match. Then she turned back to the young woman and waved the healing smoke over her body.

“You are holding on to something,” Ms. Hernandez whispered to her. “Let it go. There is no shame.”

For generations, Hispanic communities along the Southern border have turned to curanderas, or folk healers, like Ms. Hernandez, often seen in the popular imagination as old women with candles and religious icons operating in the shadows of society out of rusty shacks.

But the ancient healing art has entered the age of Instagram. More and more younger people are taking on rituals they learned from their grandmothers and deploying them against 21st century problems. They conduct limpias on public beaches, trade recipes online for blocking “envy energies” and sell artisan candles bearing the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in shops. Their clients are often college-educated, like Clarissa Ochoa, the young woman who went to Ms. Hernandez for help.

“I think it’s an honor to be a curandera; it is something very beautiful, but also very limiting,” said Ms. Hernandez, 42. “I feel like we are breaking those boundaries, that curanderas are just herbs and little old ladies. My calling is just to heal whoever I can.”

A culture of folk healing preceded the arrival of Spaniard conquistadors to Latin America and Mexico. Over time, curanderos, a term used for healers of both genders, began mixing Indigenous rituals with elements of Catholicism and influences from Asian and African folk traditions along the way.

The practice has taken hold in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, located a stone’s throw from the Mexican border, in large part out of necessity. Hidalgo County, home to McAllen and a majority Hispanic population, has one of the highest rates in the nation of people without health insurance, and many people rely on curanderas for lack of other affordable options, said Servando Z. Hinojosa, a professor of anthropology who teaches a class on Mexican-American folk medicine at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Mr. Hinojosa said many Hispanic residents also tend to be mistrustful of the medical establishment. This is especially true when it comes to mental health. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that while the number of Black, Asian and white people who have sought mental health care treatments has climbed in recent years, there has been very little movement among Latinos.

“There’s an element of distrust, but there is also structural alienation,” Mr. Hinojosa said. “They are a population that will seek affordable resources, and they will go to where the products are and where the advice is to be found.”

In the past, the medical establishment has warned people not to rely on folk remedies for physical ailments, some of which can be harmful. Many Latino children have fallen ill and even died after consuming such remedies known as albayalde, azarcon and rueda, powders often used for stomach-related illnesses that have been found to contain lead.

Curanderismo has become so accepted in the Rio Grande Valley that it is not unusual to see street signs and TV ads advertising folk healing services.

Ms. Hernandez said her great-grandmothers had both been parteras, or midwives. When she was a little girl, she said, she discovered that she possessed her own set of gifts; as she grew older, she said, she began interacting with an entity she believes to be the Angel of Death, Azrael. She works at a cellphone call center and lives with a girlfriend in a modern house in the suburbs of Edinburg, a city close to the border.

“You make it your own. There is no right or wrong. You do what’s right for you,” Ms. Hernandez said.

Another modern folk healer, Danielle López, 39, a former student of Mr. Hinojosa who said she also learned she had a don, a gift, as a young girl, has embraced the moniker of millennial curandera. She has combined the old traditions she learned from the grandmother who raised her, Consuelo López, and an aunt, Esperanza Rodriguez, with new skills learned at institutions of higher education.

Her academic record includes a master of arts in interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in Mexican-American literature, medical anthropology and Latin art history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is completing a doctorate in English with a focus on borderlands literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she is also a lecturer.

“For me it’s a continuity,” she said of her spiritual work. “I feel like we need it more now.”

It is not unusual for people to ask her for trabajitos, little jobs, including blessings, limpias and home remedies, when she is not buried in books. Not long ago, Ms. López got a request to bless a new business for a friend. When Ms. López cleansed the establishment with a bouquet of roses, six petals fell, prompting her to warn her friend that six people “did not have good intent.”

“They may say they are happy about her new business, but they are not.”

She also sometimes offers more science-based advice. When people tell her that they are feeling anxious or cannot sleep, she recommends that they cut their intake of sugar or caffeine. Because the advice comes from a curandera, she said, people tend to trust that she has their best interests at heart.

The concept of a curandera is so pervasive in Latino enclaves that in September the Texas Diabetes Institute, a state-of-the-art facility operated by University Health on San Antonio’s west side, a historical Mexican-American neighborhood, brought back to its lobby a sprawling wall-size painting, “La Curandera,” by the Chicano painter Jesus Treviño, who died early this year. The painting had been removed for restoration.

Still, when it comes to luck and matters of the heart, many people avoid professional help and turn to curanderas, because there is no substitute, said Sasha García, 39, a curandera who is known for her fire-red hair.

In northern Mexico, where Indigenous culture is not as widespread and the Catholic Church’s hold is stronger, Ms. García said, her ancestors often operated in the shadows to avoid the stigma associated with folk healers. By contrast, on the American side of the border, she not only feels freer to practice openly, but some Catholic priests stop by for her counsel, she said.

Ms. García welcomes clients at La Casa de la Santísima Yerberia in the city of Pharr, near McAllen, next to two imposing statues of La Santísima Muerte, skeletons each wearing red and black robes. Ms. García reminds people that while the image of La Santísima, a Latina version of the Grim Reaper, may evoke frightening emotions, death is to be revered.

“If you pray to her properly, she can heal and deliver love, freedom and wealth,” she said. “I only ask her for positive things.” (She laments that criminal elements along the border and in Mexico have appropriated the image.)

On a recent afternoon, Jocelyn Acevedo, 27, a frequent client of hers who runs a credit repair service, arrived for her monthly limpia. She had heard about Ms. García four years ago and after the first limpia, she said, she saw her business begin to boom. She was so convinced by the session that she since has regularly driven 60 miles from nearby Starr County, near the Rio Grande, for her sessions. She now has a tattoo of La Santísima.

Ms. García instructed Ms. Acevedo to rub three coconuts all over her body. Ms. García then broke them on the ground to release what she said was the negative energy her client had been carrying.

“Did it work? Of course,” Ms. Acevedo said.

Ms. García has embraced touches of modernity along with the old customs, including consultations now offered over FaceTime. Her clients have responded with their own offerings from popular culture, including a sign one brought in that now hangs on the front door: “Witch Parking Only.”

“No one listens,” Ms. García said with a smile. “The word may be becoming more modern, but we curanderas are still here. Just don’t park in my spot.”

Edgar Sandoval covers Texas for The Times, with a focus on the Latino community and the border with Mexico. He is based in San Antonio. More about Edgar Sandoval

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Conhecendo Curitiba por outro ângulo

Curitiba, a maior cidade do sul do Brasil, é sem dúvidas uma cidade de destaque em produções artísticas que atrai muitos visitantes pela beleza natural, além da sua arquitetura e cultura, que ainda têm influência de imigrantes europeus.

Muito além do Jardim Botânico e da Ópera do Arame, a cidade tem muitos tesouros que tornam um passeio por essa cidade ainda mais especial. Descubra aqui esses tesouros e faça do seu passeio um momento ainda mais relaxante e tranquilo.

O encantador Largo da Ordem é perfeito para quem gosta de ter um vislumbre do passado, isso devido à sua arquitetura colonial datada dos séculos XVII e XIX, hoje abriga vários museus. Aproveite a famosa Feirinha do Largo para se encantar com antiguidades e artesanatos, que complementam o ambiente com harmonia.

O Parque Barigui é um dos lugares mais procurando por moradores e turistas em dias de sol, com seus lagos, capivaras e outros animais que moram no parque. É o lugar ideal para praticar exercícios ou apenas relaxar, contando também com bares, restaurantes e quiosques para aqueles que preferem passar o tempo ao lado da família.

Se você gosta de uma vista mais privilegiada, a Torre Panorâmica é o auge da sua viagem! Do mirante, com mais de 100 metros de altura, você pode ter uma vista de 360º, que permite apreciar toda a beleza de Curitiba e seus arredores!

Para quem busca pela fé e momentos de paz interior mesmo em uma grande cidade movimentada, saiba que também é possível se desligar do mundo durante sua viagem! O Santuário Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe é, com seus vitrais e arquitetura, um local propício a oportunidades de conexão espiritual.

Conheça o encanto dessa cidade encantadora visitando pontos turísticos além dos tradicionais e crie lembranças inesquecíveis e única em suas aventuras, seja com amigos, família ou sozinho. Explore os tesouros, descubra outros e faça cada passeio ser único.

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