In July 1936 a fascist general signed the death warrant for Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's man of letters. He said he was executing Lorca because his words were more powerful than 10,000 guns. He was consigned to an unmarked grave and his body was never found.
Federico wrote a lot of poetry about the Gitan or the gypsies who were heavily persecuted in Spain.
He also wrote about the corruption in the Catholic Church as it increasingly aligned itself with fascism to protect the status quo.
I wrote about Lorca. I spent two years off an on in Granada, Spain, where he was born, educated and ultimately murdered. I often wondered what his words consisted of that frightened the ruling powers so much.
But one thing I came away with was my utter conviction in the power of the word to effect change. Words, words of Light and Healing and Truth are needed more than ever, especially now. I feel like the Goddess Diana at times, absolutely aiming my arrow at certain institutions, cabals, religions, governments and societal structures whose ways are not Light, who perhaps have something to hide. The status quo is no longer acceptable and writers like Lorca will never be silenced again.
There are too many of us now, too many who have an absolute vision of a New Earth and how that looks, for the highest good of all of us.
I encourage my authors to speak their truth as loudly and authentically as they can. I tell them that, collectively, we are speaking a new world into being.
Federico wrote a lot of poetry about the Gitan or the gypsies who were heavily persecuted in Spain.
He also wrote about the corruption in the Catholic Church as it increasingly aligned itself with fascism to protect the status quo.
I wrote about Lorca. I spent two years off an on in Granada, Spain, where he was born, educated and ultimately murdered. I often wondered what his words consisted of that frightened the ruling powers so much.
But one thing I came away with was my utter conviction in the power of the word to effect change. Words, words of Light and Healing and Truth are needed more than ever, especially now. I feel like the Goddess Diana at times, absolutely aiming my arrow at certain institutions, cabals, religions, governments and societal structures whose ways are not Light, who perhaps have something to hide. The status quo is no longer acceptable and writers like Lorca will never be silenced again.
There are too many of us now, too many who have an absolute vision of a New Earth and how that looks, for the highest good of all of us.
I encourage my authors to speak their truth as loudly and authentically as they can. I tell them that, collectively, we are speaking a new world into being.