Every Day is Magic: Ada Limón

In her 2015 collection, Bright Dead Things, a National Book Award finalist for poetry, Ada Limón writes of moving to Kentucky: “Confession: I did not want to live here.” It’s perhaps not a surprising sentiment coming from a coastally oriented person who was raised in Northern California, attended college in Seattle, and then spent over a decade in New York City.

 

But Limón and her husband, Lucas, have been in Lexington for seven years now and the effects of settling into this place are noticeable in her new book, The Carrying (Milkweed, Aug.). It’s a phenomenally lively and attentive collection replete with the trappings of living a little closer to nature. While Bright Dead Things is marked by a preponderance of light, such as images of fireflies and neon signs, The Carrying features numerous appearances by various trees, birds, and beetles. Limón also demonstrates a greater willingness to be explicit in naming colors, particularly green. “It’s crazy green, the whole book,” she says. “Lexington is the greenest place I’ve ever lived.” Similarly, where in Bright Dead Things, Limón tells a lot of stories and anecdotes, in The Carrying she is very present in her thoughts and experiences.

As it turns out, these shifts in focus have another, altogether unexpected source. While putting Bright Dead Things together, Limón was diagnosed with chronic vestibular neuronitis, which can cause bouts of vertigo. “If I’m really having vertigo, it’s pretty intense and I really have to focus,”
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The meaning of community-based care for frail Mexican American elders

WT Donlan – International Social Work, 2011
… Keywords consumer-directed services, gender identity constructs, Hispanic/Latino familism,
Mexican American frail elders, qualitative case study … a) degree of disability, (b) nature of elder–
caregiver relationship (spouse, adult child, sibling, friend, professional), (c) acculturation …
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MEXICAN AMERICAN PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON GRIEVING THE DEATH OF THEIR CHILD

A Russell-Kibble – 2011
… 19 Statement of the Problem The influence of culture on the grief of Mexican American parents
who have experienced the death of a child is important for health care professionals to understand
in order to provide culturally sensitive care to this population (Clements et al., 2003; …
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Se duplica la fuga de cerebros hacia EU en cinco años

» SE DUPLICA LA FUGA DE CEREBROS HACIA EU EN CINCO AÑOS.

La fuga de cerebros mexicanos que han ido a trabajar a Estados Unidos se duplicó en el presente sexenio. De acuerdo a cifras de la OCDE y de la Subsecretaría de Educación Superior, en 2005 había 411 mil connacionales laborando en el vecino país del norte. Sin embargo, para 2010 la cifra aumentó a más de un millón.
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(COMUNICACION+CONFIANZA) ROLES DIVIDIDO POR IGUALDAD=CONFIANZA

Con una gran entusiasmo los directivos del Sector 17 acudieron al segundo modulo del Diplomado en Formación de Equipos Directivos y Supervisión Académica, que tuvo como tema la “Competencia de liderazgo”. Las ocho zonas y personal del sector reportaron una asistencia de 117 directivos en los dos diferentes turnos del diplomado. En esta ocasión y […]

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Mexican American Family’s Perceptions of the Multirelational Influences on Their Adolescent’s Engagement in Substance Use Treatment

J Both Gragg… – The Family Journal, 2011
… rules regarding communication and interaction with individuals outside the home and rules about
seeking help from mental health professionals impacted engagement … Interestingly, first and second
generation Mexican American parents recalled being told the rules specifically. …
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Poem
“…And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor—
And this, and so much more?—
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while…”

T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Mexican American Proarchive Annual Report for 2022

The American Community Survey is an annual survey administered by the federal government to help local officials and community leaders and businesses understand the changes that take place in their communities. It includes percentages of our population’s graduate school attainment and the employment of Mexican Americans in various occupations.  These important factors influence the allocation of federal resources. Mexican American Proarchives uses the data provided by the American Community Survey to better understand how Mexican Americans compare to the general population.

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