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How writing her life story led a woman to inner healing
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Maria Aponte was born and raised an only child in East Harlem, otherwise known as “El Barrio,” in New York City, to Puerto Rican parents. Because she lost her mother at 16, and her father at 22, loneliness was a battle she fought most of her life, but it was also what made her the… Read more
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Poet Laureate of Iowa writes about our food system
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For the past 30 years, Mary Swander has risen at 6 every morning in her one-room farmhouse in Kalona, Iowa – a town known for being one of the largest Amish communities west of the Mississippi. She, herself, is not Amish, or a farmer, however – although she does raise ducks and geese and a… Read more
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“La Bamba,” “Zoot Suit” writer on the importance of building community
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Do you remember reading the play, “Zoot Suit” in high school or watching the movie “La Bamba” (1987), based on the life of 1950’s rocker Ritchie Valens, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai Morales? They were both written by multi-award winning playwright and director, Luis Valdez. He is also the founder of the longest running… Read more