Flamenco Flows from the Río Grande to Houston

By Maria Luisa Ornelas-June. Serendipity marked my path to becoming a Texas Folklife Fellow.

B. C. (Before COVID)
When COVID forced everyone to stop, I,too, stopped. But as everyone looked forward to the easing of restrictions, I took the time to look back. I looked at my ancestors and at

The Shared Memory of Kenyan Food

By Imgard Khosravi. I have a memory of my grandmother’s compound in Kenya, where the grass was covered in dew that sparkled like fragments of mirrors in the sun. The sounds of the animals filled the air: the hens clucked, the sheep bleated, the birds cooed, and the cows mooed.

Seed Saving & Texas Native Plants

By Laura Villareal. My interest in seed saving as a response to the climate crisis began last summer at Oak Spring Garden Foundation. I was working on my second poetry collection which explores the power of naming and human connections to the natural world and found myself perusing Oak Spring’s library for books to spark my writing.