Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.

I can't seem to stay out of my own way.

The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados - we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.

We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from the imagination as it does to real events.

In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.