More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more specifically, our natural ability to carry the past in our bodies and minds. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. I quietly thank this ancestor of mine for surviving the trip so that I could one day return.
Raquel CepedaTags: travel memory spirituality ancestors trekking sahara life-journey spiritual-journey journeying sahara-desert ancestral-dna ancestral-memory ancestral-continuum
The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
Raquel CepedaTags: journey afterlife subconscious enlightenment coincidence after-life life-journey spiritual-connection spiritual-journey journeying ancestral-memory no-coincidence propensities
This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.
Raquel CepedaTags: life truth journey self-awareness life-lessons enlightenment reconciliation sojourn life-journey spiritual-journey truth-and-reconciliation
Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.
Raquel CepedaTags: race race-matters race-relations new-world hispanic latino-american race-in-america hispanic-identity latino-american-identity new-world-history
If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.
Raquel CepedaTags: freedom motherhood mothers cycles breaking-free caged-bird breaking-cycles
I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.
Raquel CepedaTags: identity self-awareness internationalism mother-earth
The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
Raquel CepedaTags: dominican-republic ancestry traveling holy-land traveller spiritual-journey ancestral-land
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.
Raquel CepedaTags: freedom identity home america united-states freedom-of-thought self-awareness freedom-of-choice new-york-city race racism labels foreign homeland racial-constructs
...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.
Raquel CepedaTags: identity america race racism race-matters internationalism hispanic latino-american latino-american-identity racial-constructs being-latina being-latino
Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.
Raquel CepedaTags: history soul journey spirituality freedom-of-choice spirit zeitgeist choices reincarnation spiritual-growth kabbalistic kabbalah elevation spirituality-religion sojourner deeper-elevation spiritual-elevation
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