La Muerte

I have been staying up all night. Tonight falling in love with my first Japanese characters, reading about Shinto, and sooo looking forward to my explorations of Japan, and then reading another chapter of this awesome book that is just perfect for me to read, and eadh chapter goes faster and faster. A perfect replacement for Harry Potter. If only there were as many books as there are of Harry Potter. I guess I am grateful that I get to read these cool books in Spanish as we approach Halloween. I just can’t say how interested I am in this book and the Spanish is flowing so easily.

The theme of death, I find comforting, because it is in the context of a fantasy, and in another language, where I can start to orocess these huge emotions and such that I can’t handle in English. Reading latinx fantasy like this, though, seems to make my troubles go away for a while. I love this author, Zoraida Córdova. Now I have things to be excited about and look forward to and I have not had that in a really long time.

My intention is to travel to Colombia, birthplace of that great telenovela, La Bruja. Yay! I feel so much less despair with these things in my life. I love the possibilities of how I will change as I am more and more influenced by Latinx and Japanese culture and spirituality. Studying these two languages together, Spanish and Japanese, is putting my soul back together. Today I was thinking, if I did get a tattoo, I might get one of La Muerta.

Maybe I should hold off on guitar for a while though because my shoulder and arm are not doing well but after a couple months or so I might be ready to write songs in Spanish. In any case, I am reading fluently a series of books that I can’t imagine I will stop adoring, and if all goes well next month I will hopefully be reading great books and drinking delicious coffee in Colombia.