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Graciella la Gitana’s Oracle/El Oráculo de Graciella la Gitana
Graciella la Gitana whispered her messages of timeless inspiration to us and we listened. She graciously offered her wisdom and we responded by creating this 56 card oracle with accompanying booklet of spiritual guidance from Graciella’s heart that will now be shared with you. Each concept is offered in lyrical prose in both English and Spanish. For those of you who would like instruction on the various ways to use the oracle I’ll be offering workshops beginning in February 2019. So please stay tuned. Simply head over to our Shop (found on the header).
***The February 2019 workshop is full.***
Pollen Press LLC would love your short stories, poetry, and lyrical prose for our first anthology Latinx Nursing: the spirit of life. Maybe your story is about that time you were certain that a higher sense of Spirit had slipped quietly into the room as you cared for a patient or gave you the encouragement that you needed when pursuing your nursing education was an uncertainty. Maybe you traveled to or from a far off destination to commit to healing work or promised your grandmother, a well-loved curandera, that you’d follow in her steps. Whatever your sense of grace in the field of healing we want to read your stories! No worries in that the holidays are almost here. We know you need every spare moment to make those pasteles and coquito! Our deadline for submissions is April 30, 2019.
Call it coincidence or call it fate when Maggie Fuentes, rummaging through a Coney Island flea market, stumbles upon a handwritten diary whose author, a young girl of the nineteenth century named Ellen, reveals dreadful secrets that parallel Maggie’s own. Far removed from each other in time but bonded by the white-capped ocean, amusement park locale, and converging torments, it seems particularly apt that the sleight-of-hand landscape of luck and chance provides the setting for Maggie’s harrowing and hypnotic encounter with turmoil, then kismet, and ultimately, clarity and reawakening. Coney Island Siren presents the paradox of a nurse skilled at healing others but unable to mend herself as she sinks deep into the sinister maelstrom of her lover, Police Officer Frank Ramirez, until the stark urgency of lines written by a kindred spirit compel her to confront the reality of her—and their—lives.
