Imaginal Journal
Imagination is Medicine
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. El Ingenioso Don Quixote de la Mancha.
I want to honor the indelable Don Quixote de la Mancha. Who inspires me to dream the impossible dream. Let the locura de amor, lunacy of love, have us live life passionately, knowing our crazy, as we fight our “dragons” for the honor of our beloved.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the perfect pairing.
(illustrated by Jules David, 1922. Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University.)
De La Cruz
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. 17th Century Poet. Defender of woman’s right to education. Her hermetic devotion to her mind, body and soul is an inspiration.
“I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!”
Poniatowska
Elena Poniatowska. Journalist, Novelist. A voice for the voiceless.
“Todos estamos tan llenos de retratos interiores, tan llenos de paisajes no vividos (We are all so filled with interior images, so filled with journeys not taken)”
Carrington
“The Inn of the Dawn Horse (Self-Portrait),” oil on canvas, 1939
Leonora Carrington. Painter. Surrealist.
“I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse… I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist”
Kahlo
“The Two Fridas,” 1939, Oil on canvas
Frida Kahlo. Painter. Surrealitst.
“Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”
