title: Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays (Camino Del Sol)
author: Ray Gonzalez
description: Poet, essayist, and educator Gonzalez gracefully parses his experience as a native of the American Southwest and what it means to go home again. For Gonzalez, home can mean anything from the no-mans-land straddling the amorphous border between Mexico and the U.S. to the deserted and impoverished streets of El Paso to the wild and mournful desert vistas haunted by his ancestors. He expresses outrage along with yearning, frustration at the current political situation that builds barriers both physical and psychological, and homesickness for the geography that shaped him. Although he now lives in a culture light-years removed from the tempestuous uncertainty and abandonment of the Texas borderland, Gonzalezs connection to the land and its people is indelible, born of nights under stars that can no longer be seen, surrounded by people who are no longer there. Gonzalez crafts visually stunning imagery that both disquiets and soothes, and reflects a harsh reality while proposing a more harmonious acceptance. --Carol Haggas
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  The Earthling – Throw Him Out
  
  
  Vampire Man
  
  
  Copyright 2015 Vampire Man
  
  
  Disclaimer:-This is purely for satirical
  
  
  purpose. The intention is to insult and make fun of anything that
  
  
  comes to the author’s mind. [Actually I don’t get it. When I am not
  
  
  claiming anything what should I disclaim for?] Reading this or any
  
  
  other work of this author may be injurious to your mental health.
  
  
  It may be invigorating as well. It completely depends on your IQ.
  
  
  Less than fifty mandatory for continuing further.
  
  
  “I am a man, father and husband. Not
  
  
  necessarily in that order.”
  
  
  “The registered name on my
  
  
  deportation ID is Ark NotKnoWhatNeh and I have upper case initials
  
  
  in my last name.”The planets were moving around the sky like they
  
  
  always do. Actually I don’t know what else to describe when I am
  
  
  uttering statements of historic and intrinsic importance. Ok I
  
  
  copied that line from the movie National Treasure[great movie by
  
  
  the way Part 1 of cour