Headed out on PILGRIMAGE...

10/16/2021 0 Comments

Headed out on PILGRIMAGE...

FLASH COVID DETOX 2 DAY HEALING RETREAT.

Headed out to hot springs. Headed out to Baños with my kids.

Taking greetings from Guagua Pichincha to their mother Isabel. Ready to soak in Tungurahua’s healing waters at dawn, watch her dance with the cloud rivers of the Amazon at sunset, Visit her comadre the Virgencita de Baños in the basilica and see all the new gifts her devotees have brought to celebrate their accomplishments and pray for their kin, bathe in the spray of the Rio Verde at the Pailon del Diablo, hang out with my children, drink hot chocolate, colada morada, eat tangerines off the trees, pick aguacates, hike through cloud forests to look for orchids, hummingbirds, tanagers and dantas AND best of all visit dear long lost friends.

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Lisa Maria Madera is an Ecuadorian American writer and educator whose work explores how cultural narratives shape our individual and communal relation to the Earth and her creatures.

Madera's work has appeared in Ecopsychology, Hypertext, JSRNC, Minding Nature and in Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations forthcoming from the Center for Humans and Nature. Her short story Luz Maria has been nominated for consideration in Best American Short Stories 2021.

Dedicated to fostering compassionate and resilient communities connected to Nature, Madera also designs and hosts trips to Ecuador providing opportunities for observation and reflection on how our relationship to the world is shaped by the cultural narratives that define us.

Madera offers her work in a vision of hope and blessing that these reflections might empower all of us to realign our relationship in kinship to the Earth, to her many creatures, and to each other, ultimately realigning ourselves in right relation to the world around us so that we might live sustainably and in community.

Madera is currently working on a memoir entitled The Covid Chronicles: Lessons from Pacha Mama in the Face of Despair.

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