Ah si, Lil Wayne spits it. You know its truth.

So let it be know, dis SoloSol is privileged beyond belief! Last semester my work life was Live Nude Model for an advanced drawing class here at UTPA, creativity abound! Along with that, I squeezed in a few substitute teaching jobs, relishing the creative energy of our valle youth :) 

From there Tizoc, facebook friend, hooked it up with an awesome lil holiday job peddling RainSoft filtration systems (here it got a lil questionable for me…do i want to be a Pusher? am i doing this just for the dolla dolla bill ya’ll??)

Question answered by one customer who did not sign up on the offer sighting, “na i wouldnt want to rip you off for 20$…”

So my last day with them was yesterday, a sunday, at the Weslaco Home Depot… where I met the Mayor of Weslaco, Mr.Wise (lol, 4 real that’s his last name ;) and within the same breath caught a glimpse of some prestine tattoo art, on a fellow who proudly took off his shirt and told me it was prison art. Ahh valley, do I love you! :)

Now, we once again are gratefully hired for an amazing position: Resident Activity Leader at the Si Se Puede! Learning Center in Casa Saldana Mercedes. WUT WUT! Part of the Cesar Chavez united farmworkers, LUPE, Americorps, need I say more?? :D I am beyond happy, here is my heart, smiles all around, I thank you for letting me share the good! :D :D :D

gracias mundo! :D

I will add commentary as it comes, wut does it mean to be everything?

How does that which is everything thank the elements of existence that has made wut is? By being que es .SoloSol camino diez millas para todos, para gracias. I trek from UTPA Edinburg,Tx to South Texas College, McAllen,Tx | 3hrs20min |es Aqui y es Ahora! IT IS HERE AND IT IS NOW! Valle lindo, thank you PanAmericaUnidosEstados para savar mi vida con tu technologia, para dar mi Opportunidada, y para fester in me a want|need to spread love!

I will add commentary as it comes, wut does it mean to be everything?

In a recent conversation, the Lakota Aloysius Weasel Bear told me that he once asked his grandfather, “Grandpa, the White Man is destroying everything, shouldn’t we try to stop him?” His grandfather replied, “No, it isn’t necessary. We will stand by. He will outsmart himself.” The grandfather recognized two things in this reply: (1) That Separation carries the seeds of its own demise, and (2) That his people’s role is to be themselves. But I don’t think that this is an attitude of callousness that leaves the White Man to his just desserts; it is an attitude of compassion and helping that understands the tremendous importance of simply being who they are. They are keeping alive something that the planet and the community of all being needs.            -The Three Seeds

I face the terror of the ego, the spoke of the machine which is implanted, impregnated i take away, i take away. the sun shines and we glisten golden Now, do we wish to sell our golden selves? i said my mama mama mama agos lost sight of what is and now in this carnation We see, mama mama mama agos this is now and now we see. shedding ego embracing eco, spreaded wings we are home in our hearts which are our minds creating . everything happens now. man knows. now becomes the past :  the future becomes now

I will add commentary as it comes, wut does it mean to be everything?

fe-male

native n foreign

mammal-yet separate/other by label, homosapien

flesh of the earth -NOW- with manmade materials!!!  install this titanium rod with due cause and charge the people, fit the bill correctly, ignore the fact the body, the bone, is made to endure and mend itself, drugs and drugs and drugs till the insides cant take no more.

$100,000+ huh. n wut if this collusion had happened o, a few mnths later, after the Medicaid had expired? would so much installation have been done?

I DO NOT mean to confuse, I know my very life was at risk and I greatly appreciate the educated salvation, but was all this titanium metal, from my hip to my ankle, really necessary? mhhh es a good question mandita… es a good question…

this is Tamaula,Mx : UTPA Panorama Fall 2010

“The proliferation of materialism, technology, conceptuality and abstraction-all various methods of distancing from direct experience-is undermining sacred perspectives worldwide. Hiding effects and relationships behind veils of concept, language, and physical distance, the sum total of that which is “entitled to veneration” in our world is becoming smaller and smaller. Further, as we lose genuine contact with each other-and direct, unmediated physical experience-the intamcy through which compassion is naturally engendered is quickly and easily lost.”

-”Sacredness: The Ground of Learning”

The Heart of Learning: Spirituality in Education

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• lol! Notice: the scared expression on my freshman face (and the cowering shoulders), my young love for Cali based rockers The Deftones, and of course, my other loves: cats and Alice in Wonderland :)

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• Skip forward to 11th grade: finally wearing glasses regularly (I had always been too ashamed of having Medicaid cheap-o glasses). There appears to be quite a sadness in my face :( I can imagine in my head: “ugh, another year. O lord when will it end?”  Public school education needs to be revisioned; a standardized test reflects what of an individuals creativity? answer: NOTHING! It’s more like a test for Alzheimer’s…

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• Fresh out of HiSkool: I move on to South Texas College Mid-Valley campus; my ma teaches me how to drive the summer after I graduate :) Notice: I look like a large yellow egg with a head!

• Almost a rite of passage for young valle folk: Convergys DirectTv Pharr,Tx. Why? “They pay good.” Look at me, solosol floating about in my human shell (see sparkle in one eye). Here was my 6 month (this is how long I could take sitting in a cubicle, selling my minutes,seconds,hours to that box that sells us fear) dip into discovering first-hand the massive extent that Televison has on my people, the human race. It.Is.Bad.

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•  My renewed Drivers Licence! Notice: I have alot of hair on my head & my face is very round, like the sun! :D

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• 2010; now it gets that much more interesting! At first glance, I admit, I look alien…this is what a half shaven head can do to a persona…Notice: I am still Amanda de la Fuente, female, student, Indian in the Library :)

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•  Notice: hair up, hair down, no hair, kinky hair, straight hair, blonde hair, black hair, brown hair, we are all the same, we are all human, we are all solosols!

I was awarded a grant to go to Guanajuato,Mexico in conjunction with FeelGoodWorld and Choice Humanitarian!

“8 day international partnership trip to experience first hand the work of our partners on the ground. You will work side-by-side with motivated villagers to complete various village initiated projects: water systems, bio-gas digesters, and more. This is an inter-cultural exchange that builds personal relationships, reveals our interconnectedness, and transforms our lives.” 

I am so excited! Prepeare for Greatness!

The student liberal arts magazine here at UTPA, Gallery 2010, has been sent out to the printers!

Woot!WOot! Keep Checking Back for more info about launch/awards party set for May 14!

 As Art & Design Director for this year’s issue, I did my most to create a beautiful showcase of our students work!

-Mandy d

(p.s. the magazines in the video are from a past year, expect awesomness with this years cover art, created by our Editor in Chief, Andrew S.)

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Heads Up: M.I.A “Born Free” Video

EastofLA.com>M.I.A -Born Free Video

VEVO>M.I.A Born Free Vid

The Huffignton Post 4-26-10

Festival of International Books & Arts : O wut a better place for this Indian in the Library to be! :D

Here we see a gathering of Valley folk, la Raza Cosmica! 

we Honor: Jose Vasconcelos y Gloria Anzaldua

la Mestiza rises. this is our destiny mija :)

click me

Here we go, this is all that needs to fill my head:

Sun is God

God is Love

Love for All

All on Earth is Equal

I struggle with history

http://delafun88.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/270/picture-067/

no. sorry,

i sound the voice loud

always & siempre

Sun is God

God is Love

Love for All

All on Earth is Equal

The Shift in Human Consciousness

I have been created for your pleasure

For you beauty

I swirl and ball leaf like no other

In plastic molds wire intense dye like no other

Hands work me labor is

Intensive

For buyers pleasure

I have been created

Note: reality is what we create it to be

see my beauty

exemplified by photograph

I exist in this setting only

Created for your pleasure

Buyer is what they see, my manufacturers

I see

human soul human sol solo soul sol out sol

a sol speaks:

this elder should not be alone

why does this box exist?

fulfillment is found local

outside

we deserve a reality outside of this box

look again

grandma will find her green thumb

garden soil colors of natural beauty

thank you earth

she whispers

as we glide by on our way to fulfillment

smile and wave

for our solo sol is filled with happiness

the beauty of grandmas garden

is for all all all

to

Enjoy!

Enjoy!

Enjoy!

grandmas love

mixes

with earths

see a new reality in this photograph

and it will exist.

see a new reality

and beauty is realized.