Michelle Adam
Writer, Spiritual Teacher, Healer, Ceremonialist
Explore and awaken the world of duende, the spirit of the earth within each one of us, through Michelle's novels, poems, teachings, healings, and ceremonies.
Paco’s voice slid deep into the smoke-filled room. Silence
sifted into the space between his breaths. Crying with the
anguish of a people who had left their homeland centuries ago, he carried a song that still knew its way inside the heartbeat of the earth. Eight-year-old Duende listened. Twenty-eight-year old Ingrid barely remembered this mysterious melody that came from within.
In the small village of Málaga, on the coast of Spain,
where the Mediterranean Sea separated Europe from Africa, from the Arabic cries of “Allah,” and from the Jews’ search for their homeland, Paco and his Gypsy song remained. Duende, raised in this culture, knew this song and its origin, yet Ingrid, tossed into the modern reality of separation, had yet to find her way back.
This is the story of both, woven together by magical
vines carrying the blood of the earth and a forgotten
way of living.
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The corn tassels arch their backs toward the sky
as their leaves, once a soft emerald green,
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