Happy Birthday to beautiful Frida Kahlo. I discovered her 50 plus years ago when I visited her home "Casa Azul" in Coyoacan with my father. She was my muse and inspiration from that time forward to embroider art into my life. Her portrait sits over my desk where she watches me with stern eyes pound out my novels, paint my dreams and create a "juicy" theology of life. Frida inspires us to never be afraid of who we really are even though it may makes others uncomfortable. She never apologized for being real.
In my early twenties I copied her style of never wearing European clothing as a tribute to our indigenous culture as Mexicans. I twined by long braids around my head in solidarity with my heroine. Frida, along with Che and Emiliano fine tuned my love of "La Revolucion". Frida taught me that it was painful, exciting, lonely and luscious to be an unusual woman but never boring. Thank you Frida for your amazing life!
Two other notes of interest. Please log onto www.americasvoiceonline.org and send a fax to President Obama supporting the Justice Departments challenge of SB 1070 in the courts.
In Sundays Arizona Republic excellent article on how Sen. Harry Reid's opposition to SB 1070 may help him win his election with the support of Latino voters. www.azcentral.com/news/election/.../20100705harry-reid-arizona-law.html
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