I'm reminded of the Spanish word querencia, meaning a home ground or refuge.
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"There's a word in Spanish, querencia; it's the place where one feels at home, where you're your most authentic self," she says.
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Folklore tells us that 'no hay mejor querencia que tu corral,' there is no better place than your corral — a typical saying that alludes to where someone is raised, the place of one's memories, of one's affections, of things one loves and, above all, where one feels safe.
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For instance, the connection to place denoted by chōros is reflected in concepts such as "turangawaewae", "cynefin" and "querencia" – from Māori, Welsh and Spanish respectively – which all pertain in some way to the sentiment of having a "place to stand" on this Earth, somewhere secure that we can call home.
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A third collection of poems, la querencia, was published posthumously in 2006 by the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña.
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El Señor de la Querencia (English: The Lord of the Farm) is a nighttime soap opera broadcast by Televisión Nacional de Chile. El Señor de la Querencia is set in a rural estate in Colina, Chile in 1920. It differs from former Chilean series by the large amounts of domestic violence, sexual abuses, extortions, threats, torture and violence shown as part of the plot. Chilean minister Laura Albornoz expressed her concern about the impact of the repeatedly shown domestic violence and sexual abuses shown in the soap opera.Sernam v/s “El señor de la Querencia Starring by Julio Milostich as the main villain, as co- protagonist Sigrid Alegría and Álvaro Rudolphy.
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Juan José Morosoli (January 19, 1899 – December 29, 1957) was a Uruguayan writer. His masterpiece is Perico, a collection of short stories for children, which included "Arenero" and "La Querencia Olvidada" in 1947.
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Many of the most successful telenovelas in Chile are set in a historical era such as Pampa Ilusión (1935), El Señor de la Querencia (1920), Los Pincheira (1918), Secretos en el jardín (1981) or Perdona Nuestros pecados (1953–1961).
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The Dreaming Void is broken into two distinct sections. The first follows Edeard, a young boy who lives inside the Void on a planet called Querencia, the subject of Inigo's dreams. Edeard, an orphan and apprentice, lives in Ashwell, a town in Rulan province. A gifted psychic, Edeard is trained by Master Akeem in crafting and modding.
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Querencia also received the conclusion of the BR-242 project linking BR-158, a Querencianos dream that became a reality in November 2010. This last project will certainly bring a strong boost to Querência's economic growth. The municipality has 5 settlements: P.A. Pingo D'ÀGua, Coutinho União, Sao Manoel, Brasil Novo and Nova Esperança. The biggest one is Pingo D'àgua, with 549 lots.
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Love is a central idea to the body of Dávila's work as evidence of her interest and engagement with love's place in the human experience. In la querencia, for example, a preface poem following after the title page posits love in relation to Spanish prepositions that locate and position love: a afuera adentro arriba abajo adelante atrás antes bajo cabe con contra cuando de desde después durante en entre excepto hacia hasta mediante mientras para por pues salvo según sin so sobre tras el amor. According to love, against love, within love, and without love are manners of engaging with the concept of love that Dávila establishes at the beginning of her work for readers to consider and as foreground to the further exploration within the work. Significantly, the word querencia means love, fondness, and attachment.
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Initially a loner, Edeard comes to prominence in his village after designing an alternative pump mechanism for the local well. Unfortunately Edeard's luck changes for the worse after Ashwell is raided by bandits. Forced to flee, Edeard joins the local caravan and travels to Makkathran the capital of Querencia. In Makkathran, Edeard joins the constables and after a brutal couple of months in training, Edeard graduates.
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While at lunch together, three days later, an officer comes in to the coffee shop and states that Tess's boat, the Querencia, has gone missing and was never found. Charlie is shocked at the thought that Tess could be dead. He had heard of "middle ground" where spirits would stay until they were ready to pass over to the next level. He had seen many come and go quickly and others who liked to stay like his brother.
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Huáscar also went to Argentina where he did concert tours in the city of Salta and also in La Mendieta, Province of Jujuy. Years later he returned to Sucre where he continued their higher education but without neglecting his artistic career. In 1998 he recorded with a group called Querencia in Sucre. In 2004, Huáscar participated in a competition based on the exhibition of precious stones known as bolivianitas, which inspired him to compose the song entitled La bolivianita.
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She graduated from Universidad Finis Terrae in 2001 and traveled to Spain to specialize in theater dance. She has participated in several TV series and her debut was in the soap opera Corazón de María from TVN, where she played a Russian mail order bride Irina Romanovna, the loved wife of Wladimir (Alfredo Castro). She was a great asset to the night time soap opera from TVN, El Señor de la Querencia, and more recently in ¿Dónde está Elisa?.
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Through the producer's success, Alarcón continued to work with important figures in cinema, theater, and television. He has also appeared in television series such as ', Estúpido Cupido, Romané, ', ', ', Pampa Ilusión, ', and El Señor de la Querencia. He is the creator of the Patagonia Film Festival, a gala developed in the Cueva del Milodón. Currently, he is officially recognized as the actor with the longest career in Chilean cinema, occasionally collaborating with Raúl Ruiz, Helvio Soto, Miguel Littín, Emilio Gómez Muriel, and Silvio Caiozzi.
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Her sister later died of cancer. Calderón began appearing in Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) series such as Bellas y audaces and A la sombra del ángel in the late 1980s. In 2008, Adela Calderón portrayed Aunt Carmen, a "Madame" of a brothel in the series El Señor de la Querencia, and the same year she was a candidate for councilor for the municipal district of Santiago. However, the following year she was remanded in custody after being arrested for drug trafficking with Garras de Amor singer Rodolfo Tarragona.
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Angelamaría Dávila Malavé was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico February 21, 1944. She wrote poetry in her native Spanish before attending the Universidad de Puerto Rico in the 1960s and was a part of the Generación del 60, a prominent and revolutionary group of Puerto Rican poets, where she contributed to the literary magazine Guajana. She collaborated with fellow Puerto Rican poet and husband José María Lima. Angelamaría was a singer and drawer, performing at cabarets and including her illustrations alongside her poems as seen in la querencia, in which color pencil and black pen drawn human figures are accompanied by the graphic design work of artist Nelson Sambolín.
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She next joined ' and Papi Ricky on the same network. In 2008 she began to appear on Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) series such as El Señor de la Querencia, Hijos del Monte, Conde Vrolok, La familia de al lado, and La chúcara, with the latter being her first leading role. In 2006, the year after her premiere in Brujas, she performed professionally in theater for the first time, in the play Oedipus (o La múltiple dislexia), a version of Oedipus Rex written and directed by Luna del Canto. Since then she has made sporadic theatrical appearances, in productions such as El Último Cuplé, el cabaret de Sarita Montiel and '.
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In 2000 she published her second flamenco recording, 'Querencia', which was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award to the Best Flamenco Album in 2001. Although already well-established as a solo cantaora, she resumed her facet as a singer for dance when she met bailaora Belén Maya in 1996, with whom she has toured the world with the works Mayte Martín + Belén Maya (since 1996) and Flamenco de Cámara (since 2003), winning international critical acclaim. In 1997, she received the Barcelona City Award, granted by the City Council, and the National Music Award in the category of "Best Flamenco Composer". In 1993 she started touring with jazz pianist Tete Montoliu, a professional relationship that lasted until Montoliu's death in 1997.
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Dávila writes about the human body, especially in the sixth section of la querencia entitled, "MORADA TERCERA/TU CUERPO SIEMPRE CÁLIDO", in which she explores "cosas del cuerpo, del ánima, del silencio" in three "habitaciones" containing approximately 24 poems. In the first section she dedicates 10-11 line poems about different body parts of her lover. In a poem about his hands, she compares them to roots like "certain scars" and explores the idea of her thirst as maintaining the hands which enjoy and support her desire: "tus manos" son tus manos agoreras dos destiladas raíces de la tierra; cicatrices desprendidas y certeras. crecientes van por la vera del aire, que las detiene, arrastradas se sostienen prometen, hurgan, rebuscan siempre encuentran, siempre gustan de mi sed, que las mantiene Dávila states that his hands "sustain", "promise", "always find", and "always enjoy" her thirst, evincing the intimate and sensual language emblematic of her poetry.
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