Somos Ajenos

Enrique A. Rodriguez Eccentric Visual Artist/Illustrater & Writer

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Para mi padre

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Y La Bamba - "Ojos Del Sol"

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Justicia Por Los Niños Separados y Olvidados

Algo está pasando Que hemos visto antes. La gente está temblando Tienes que poner tus guantes Y prepárate a luchar Que el presidente está ganando Que sigues ciegamente como ganado Están deportando y separando Separados de sus hijos A veces cuando son legales La migra no le importa tomar una vida Estas cosas no deben ser reales No le importa que dice las reglas O si tienes un abogado Pero los niños son el futuro Y haremos ese cambio Es urgente que aprendas algo Nuestro país fue construido para dejar entrar a otros No le importa de dónde somos Porque somos iguales Entonces por favor dime ¿Cómo humanos pueden ser ilegales? No es cierto que sean flojas Ellos trabajan más duros que puedes ver con tus ojos caprichosos Porque siempre son mirados de todos Esperando como buitres Por una razón pequeñita Para sacar a los inmigrantes de sus pupitres Si pensaras Que cambiarias el mundo Te aconsejo que seas profundo Porque desea pudiéramos tomarnos la mano Pero todavía hay personas que se portan inhumano Me enoja cuando hay grupos por los victimas de inmigrantes Tienes que tener la consideración Si hay civilización Para tener una organización Para hacer una separación A los inmigrantes y cuídanos Que si cambio esa palabra Con una raza Es una cosa que hacia equivocadamente Cuando mi comunidad ha dicho “Los apoyo si habían venido legalmente” Para ser legal puede tomar décadas Tienes que saber más de historia que profesores Y tener demasiado dinero que no es posible ahora Por eso arriesgan todo Dejan atrás su vida y caminan por días a través de un desierto Con sus corazones abiertas y el sacrificio Yo sé que a muchos No les importa Pero siempre a mi, me voy a soporta La gente oprimida Que están luchando por el sueño americano Porque un inmigrante francés La estatua de libertad da bienvenida A todas sus familias que sufren todavía Y nuestro tiempo ha venido Para proteger que nuestro antepasados convenido.

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Trump ends his policy of family separations with executive order – live updates

President signs order to ‘keep families together’ but derides US immigration laws at Minnesota rally

What frustration and heartbreak I feel

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🌞 Cuando estés triste ponte a cantar. Cuando estés alegre, a llorar. Cuando estés vacío, de verdad vacío, ponte a mirar. -Jaime Sabines

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#candid #photography #color #naturallight #sundown #50mm #leica #rangefinder #leicam10 #nowness #portraitphotography #portrait #bokeh #mate #summervibes #chill #afternoon (at Boston, Massachusetts)

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✌️🤙 Photograph by @leicaproimage #portrait #studio #photography #shoot #leicacamerausa #leicastoreboston #leicasl #100mm #fullframe #coffeeaddict #wannabemodel (at Leica Gallery Boston)

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Guerrilla street art collective Indecline staged the gravesite in one of Trump’s golf courses. The gravestones mourn the loss of things like “decency” and the American Dream.

Artists Create a Cemetery for the Things Donald Trump Killed in 2017

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May your coming year be filled with magic, dreams and the inevitable mania. I hope you indulge yourself in some fine books and kiss someone who completely envelops you gracefully, Don’t forget to make some art- write or draw or build or sing or live truthfully as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in this new year, you surprise yourself. For you are an incandescent spark of passionate strive. I end this with T.S. Eliot’s ‘Little Gidding’ - “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning...” #newyearseve #best9of2017 #lookingforward #writing #artisticexpression #photographs #35mm #film #digital #drawing #illustration #boston #tseliot #literature #poetry #virtue (at Planet Earth)

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Mr Twin Sister - Lady Daydream

Dreamy throwback to my favorite song by Mr Twin Sister, from the 2010 album "Color Your Life." http://mrtwinsister.com https://facebook.com/mrtwinsister http...

Mr Twin Sister - Lady Daydream

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Completo incompleto

Provided to YouTube by Warner Music Group Completo incompleto · Jarabe De Palo/Antonio Vega De Vuelta Y Vuelta ℗ 2000 The Copyright in this sound recording i...

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🌒 If you can keep your head when all around you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! Because you shall be the master of your fate, The captain of your soul Though your soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light; For you have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate but strong at will To strive, to seek, to find, and not yield. . . 🎼Doria - Ólafur Arnalds #if #poem #writing #latenightthoughts #creativeurge #newwork #ideas #drawing #faces #pen #ink #form #thegaze #sketch #notepad #strive #visualrepresentation #figure #shape #design #emotions #writing #artsy

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Meditation 

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The Poet Acts

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul

Though my soul may set in darkness,

It wil rise in perfect light;

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate,

but strong will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not yield

-Enrique Alejandro Rodriguez

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Artists and their Bohemian Ateliers

This is the Parisian atelier of painter Jules Thulot, little-known today, but in this photograph we get an intimate look inside his personal space. A fabulously bohemian lair, begging to be explored inch by inch. It was the discovery of this photograph that sent me on my hunt for today's compendium