2018: A Reading Year
Wishing You the Joys of Christmas: Stories, Food, Music & Lights
Illustration by Magaly Morales from A Piñata in a Pine Tree: A Latino Twelve Days of Christmas
Pat describes the way she blends different cultures in this holiday adaptation. Video provided by WETV’s ¡Colorín Colorado!.
Special Spaces
“We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” (Churchill) I used this quote to open the last chapter, December, of my family memoir House of Houses. Has it really been twenty years since this book was published? Writing it, when my husband Vern and I first began to spend time in Santa Fe, was the opportunity to spend time listening, listening literally and in my imagination to some of my favorite voices–my family–and to return to the spaces where I grew up. How were you shaped by the dwellings where you spent your early years?
For a new project, I’m returning to my early spaces. May you discover good memories and instructive memories in quiet moments as 2017 ends, and you also begin new projects that energize you.
Pat
Snow in the Desert?
My son took this wonderful picture from our back deck last year. Santa Fe (NM) meaning holy faith, was founded as a Spanish colony in 1610. Located in what is called high desert at an elevation for over 7,000 feet, the terrain is quite different from the low desert terrain of El Paso (TX) where I was born and spent many years. Deserts: one of my sources of inspiration.
Pat
