Discover the unlimited power of the imagination. Travel through time and space between two different realities. One reality is conventional and predictable, the other is enigmatic and defies the laws of nature.
Hechizo de Luz is a romantic novel. It is rich in fiction and also in reality that submerges itself into philosophic concepts and into the mysteries of human behavior.
Two young boys find in their dreams access to a parallel dimension that takes them to meet Josefa. The boys, along with Romualdo, an old love of Josefa, will try the imposible to bring her back to their world.
This is a story where falling in love and falling out of love go hand in hand. Where hate builds barrieres surpassed only by faith. Where the mind competes with the heart in silent, but bloody battles. Where the human spirit fights to shorten the distance between two worlds separated by a spell . . . a spell of light.

Variable winds carry the stench of burned flesh up to the promontory where I, General José María Rangel, sit atop my nervous horse.  It occurs to me that the smell is not unlike that of an asado I sampled in Buenos Aires some years ago.  Meat, after all, is meat, whether animal or human.  From time to time the animal beneath me shies and dances when a rolling cloud reaches high enough to engulf us.

Below, the village of Tomóchic smolders, nearly leveled.  The last stronghold was the church.  I see smoke billowing out of its windows and around the steeple, signaling the end of the last of them, as if they could win a challenge against me and my mission to rid the north of insurgent vermin.  No, we will not honor the village corpses.  Those not incinerated will be left to rot.  It will be a lesson.  Another lesson…

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Tomóchic Blood

At the turn of the nineteenth century, each of the countries of North America--Canada, the United States and Mexico--determined to crush opposition throughout their lands with military force, if need be.  InManitoba, Louis Riel, the leader of the Métis, was hanged in 1885.  The massacre by the US Cavalry of the Sioux at Wounded Knee in the Dakotas took place in 1890.  And in the Sierra Madre of Mexico, the village of Tomóchic in Chihuahua was razed by federal troops in 1892.  The Métis, the Indians, and the Mestizos incurred the wrath of their governments by defying attempts make them surrender their lands, their cultures, and their autonomy.  There were survivors, however, those who escaped the devastation and those who are descendants and relatives of the victims.  The spirit of self-determination yet lives among them.  This is a story of one lone writer and teacher who did not abandon the demand for justice.

Variable winds carry the stench of burned flesh up to the promontory where I, General José María Rangel, sit atop my nervous horse.  It occurs to me that the smell is not unlike that of an asado I sampled in Buenos Aires some years ago.  Meat, after all, is meat, whether animal or human.  From time to time the animal beneath me shies and dances when a rolling cloud reaches high enough to engulf us.

Below, the village of Tomóchic smolders, nearly leveled.  The last stronghold was the church.  I see smoke billowing out of its windows and around the steeple, signaling the end of the last of them, as if they could win a challenge against me and my mission to rid the north of insurgent vermin.  No, we will not honor the village corpses.  Those not incinerated will be left to rot.  It will be a lesson.  Another lesson…

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Tomóchic Blood

At the turn of the nineteenth century, each of the countries of North America--Canada, the United States and Mexico--determined to crush opposition throughout their lands with military force, if need be.  InManitoba, Louis Riel, the leader of the Métis, was hanged in 1885.  The massacre by the US Cavalry of the Sioux at Wounded Knee in the Dakotas took place in 1890.  And in the Sierra Madre of Mexico, the village of Tomóchic in Chihuahua was razed by federal troops in 1892.  The Métis, the Indians, and the Mestizos incurred the wrath of their governments by defying attempts make them surrender their lands, their cultures, and their autonomy.  There were survivors, however, those who escaped the devastation and those who are descendants and relatives of the victims.  The spirit of self-determination yet lives among them.  This is a story of one lone writer and teacher who did not abandon the demand for justice.

The crow man denounces in his diary a conspiracy of the flowers. Superior consciousness –chlorophyll- wants to govern the planet, drugging humans. The floral intelligence is imposed by the instinctive weakness of ambitious people that only look for their own well-being and seek pleasure and money. Persuades –offering artificial paradises- to consumers just as drug dealers to enter the green labyrinth that takes them to transformation, back to states that appear less conflictive. Instead of a thinking humanity, earth shall be reigned by a mass of green beings, in reality just one that is multiplied.

The protagonist, to try to save his work and marriage, flees to bury himself at the ranch of his cousin Ramon, but instead of getting well he falls into a vortex of hallucinations. The fault of a committed crime during his adolescence forces him to split into a crow and two viceroys –white and black- which take him to live another life during colonial times. He loses his identity and turns into another being, man and crow which ends up into absolute regression converting into a plant, like the caretaker of the Ranch, Anselmo, another drunk man who wishes to stop having feelings and turns into a Jacaranda.

Societal an Organizational Performance Review is a peer-reviewed publication of the  Performance Improvement Institute (PII) , Phd and MBA program at the Sonora Institute of Technology (ITSON)

 This new journal is a reflection of the work that is being conducted at the Institute for Social and Organizational Performance in Sonora, Mexico, which illustrates how organizations can achieve social and organizational transformation using rigorous performance improvement concepts and methodologies. 

Now, as part of the PII and its commitment to results-based and research-based performance accomplishment, this is the first issue of Social and Organizational Performance Review (SOPR). It includes timely work by ITSON faculty, staff, and others committed to adding societal value. This first issue includes the concepts and tools of Mega thinking and planning, and proven tools and techniques for designing, delivering, and evaluation organizational and societal impact.

While some of the work that appears in this and future issues might have been also published elsewhere, they are provided here with full attribution of initial source.  We also will be publishing new work and the results of the applied research and development of ITSON students, their sponsors, and sponsoring organizations.  We will also find useful work done throughout the world and bring it to you through the SOPR.

     The books in the Palo Alto adventure series are written in two languages, (not translated but written  by the author, B. Palma in both languages) to help the children of two adjacent cultures understand their differences and so that students can read them in the desired language. On the odd pages the story is written in Spanish and on the even ones in English.

Lucifer, the second book in the bilingual Palo Alto Adventure series describes how the young Palo Alto friends, Juanita, Pedro, Rafael, and Luisito find the secrets for taming a badly treated Olympic-level jumping horse, Lucifer. Juanita makes a new friend, Leora, daughter of an American engineer who is helping with the construction of a new factory near the Mexican town. Rafael and his horse have an accident and Pedro has the first operation on his ankle. The boys are interviewed on television showing the treasure they found in Rafael's family's Hacienda. Juanita's famous equestrian cousins, Manuel and Rogelio come to help with the training of Lucifer. The four friends are invited to ride in the parade for the inauguration of the factory. Juanita and Leora, representing their respective countries, take flowers to the President of Mexico. An unexpected event almost ruins the day.

Los libros de la serie de aventuras Palo Alto están escritos en dos idiomas (no traducidos pero escritos por la autora, B. Palma en los dos idiomas) para ayudar a los niños de dos culturas a entender sus diferencias y para que los estudiantes puedan leerlo en el idioma deseado. En todas las páginas nones el cuento están escrito en Español y en las páginas pares está escrito en Inglés.

     Éste segundo libro de las aventuras de los compañeros de Palo Alto, describe como los amigos Juanita, Pedro, Rafael, y Luisito descubren los secretos para dominar a Lucifer, un caballo de salto olímpico muy maltratado. Juanita hace una amiga nueva, Leora, hija de un ingeniero norteamericano que esta ayudando a construir una fábrica cerca del pueblo.

Rafael y su caballo tienen un accidente y Pedro tiene la primer operación en su tobillo. Los muchachos se entrevistan en televisión mostrando el tesoro que encontraron en la Hacienda Palo Alto de la familia de Rafael.  Los primos de Juanita, Manuel y Rogelio, famosos jinetes, vienen a ayudar con el entrenamiento de Lucifer. Los cuatro amigos son invitados a montar en el desfile para la inauguración de la fábrica. Juanita y Leora, representando sus países, llevan flores al Presidente de la República. Un evento inesperado casi hecha a perder el día.

"En el transcurso de mi vida no he tenido en mis manos otros libros diseñados  para niños que les hablen de las tradiciones Mexicanas y que al mismo tiempo tengan misterio combinado con aventuras como es la colección de cuatro libros hasta el momento de La Pandilla de Palo Alto. Mis hijos de diferentes edades; desde 9 hasta 16, se han  interesado en ellos. Han leído los cuatro y están esperando la continuación."

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La cultura mexicana ha producido gran poetas como Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz e Octavio Paz.  El siglo veinte e uno, ha producido un poeta de talento mayor.  Estudiado en las materias de historia, ciencia política, filosofia y literatura, esta poesía viene de una perspectiva intelectual y romántica donde se nota las detalladas observaciones sobre la vida cotidiana del ser humano.  En, Mi Familia Mexicana: Versos Sinceros, el lector va a poder ver muchos diversos temas eclécticos que introduce la obra del señor Calderón.  Los versos en este libro incluyen poemas de pasión de amor e intelectual pero más que nada un entrego total hácia la condición humana.  Estos poemas son brindados no para la familia en el sentido parroquial si no como dice Calderón, “…para la persona quién pueda conectarse con la cultura mexicana, no importe su origen.”  La persona quien tenga una dedicación profunda hácia la literatura mexicana, tiene que añedir este libro a su biblioteca.

Gritos en el monte es un poemario que trae una profundidad de pensamiento hacia la hacia lacondición humana de uno del poeta de Santa María, CA.  La poesía de Rudy Calderón se lee como si se estuviese leyendo la obra de los poetas trascendentalistas, modernistas, o la generación del ’98 del siglo diecinueve.  Calderón vive y celebra la humanidad y el “yo poético”.  Siempre, reconocido por sus declaraciones pro-humanas, este poemario tiene como su escudo la franqueza y la pasión.  Escrito por un mejicano-americano, este poemario trae la indispensable canción de un poeta bohemio quien levanta el canto de todo americano en general y de todo mejicano/a en particular. 

Poeta contemporáneo y hombre de letras, Rudy Calderón hace disponible su décimo volumen de poesía.  El hecho de realmente vivir es luchar contra el tiempo, espacio, y las tragicomedias que se nos introducen.  Capitan Sin Mar, trae una poesía con corazón abierto por uno y por todos.  “La ironía de la poesía verdadera,” dice Calderón “…es que los versos más transcendentales y que pasan las pruebas del tiempo son forjados entre el fuego e infierno después de haber aventurado al epicentro del abismo emocional.”  Capitan Sin Mar es un librito que cambiará el modo de percibir la vida.  Después de leer este poemario, el lector perderá unos cuantos minutos de su vida mas lo hará cuestionar el nivel de su sensibilidad y humanidad.  Para los estudiantes de la poesía española o de inglés del siglo veintiuno, Capitan Sin Mar  es indispensable porque aquí, con dos distintas obras biling es, se estará observando el desarrollo de uno de los poetas más profundos y prolíficos de nuestros tiempos.

Contemporary poet and a man of letters, Rudy Calderón makes available his tenth volume of poetry.  The act of truly living is to wrestle with time, space, and the tragicomedies that are introduced into our lives.  The Sealess Captain, brings poetry with a heart that is open for one and for all.  “The irony of true poetry,” Calderón states, “…is that the most transcendentalist verses and those that stand the test of time are forged within the fire and hell after having ventured to the epicenter of the emotional abyss...