Harmony, contemplation, and stillnesses are more potent and greater than the animated, deafening and self-serving language and cacophony that surrounds us. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico
Author Archives: Frederico Wilson
Cultural Self-Preservation
“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and never will.” – Frederick Douglas. As multicultural and multiracial (primarily raised and identifying as Latino and Pascua Yaqui Indian) I’ve long felt compelled to offer a counter-narrative to commonly held perceptions about the Latino community. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico
Sanctuary In The Sun
There’s an arroyo that cuts through the sands of time just southeast of Tucson, Arizona. Unlike other gorged desert paths in the region, it runs uncommonly straight. In its wake lies a littered trail of uprooted impediments, incapable of withstanding the force of monsoon downpours that pushed them to the wayside. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico
Prologue
Culture is not in our DNA; it’s not a birthright. Communal authority teaches our norms and customs. As children, we have little choice, but to absorb what is encouraged, promoted and expected. We’re innocents, compliant and susceptible to the edicts of our hosts. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico
Trojan Horse
In the interim I’ll listen to only symphonic compositions, grab a two-finger scotch, or a Washington state legal marijuana joint – or both – and purge away the vocal styling and rapture of Obama-Speak. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico
A Cowboy Thing
The old man still had some magic in him. He sat up erect, smiled, winked, picked up his sweat-stained cowboy hat that lay on the nightstand and waved it high above his head. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico
Pocho-Going Rogue
I discovered that the whole of me is greater than the sum of my parts and makes my story unlike most, given I chose to embrace my ethnicities entirely, not as separate distinctions capable of wielding favor or force. I’m good with that. I like being whole. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico
She Works Without A Net
And so it came to be. Whether her ascent up the trapeze rope ladder was by force or by choice, she scaled intrepidly up, into the unknown. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico
Fog of Doubt
However, not all is lost. I understand him better now. Ours is a long-standing relationship, a wine metaphorically fermenting in old oak barrels. An aging, ripening liaison meant to be sipped and savored, one memory at a time. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico
Madre of Puget Sound
Mother Earth does not voluntarily release its own. The land of your birth, of your youth, will force you back into its womb if you listen to its siren calls and accept its certainty and security. https://www.amazon.com/author/wilsonfrederico