About Carmy
I've always found myself either reading, writing or telling a story, and more recently, poetry penetrated into my life with intensity.
Then came a short story that seemed to want to go on and on... and turned into a book called The Six Knowings of ASAIRA!
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This book is where all my loves - the poems, the magic, the storytelling, the profound mysteries of life, the search for the Divine - intertwine alchemically and magically.
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Now the time has come to share that book, and I am so excited and grateful!​​
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I live in Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada, with my husband, Antonio, and our dog, Milo.
Maria del Carmen Stubbs: What's in a Name?
I was given the beautiful name Maria del Carmen when I was born in the UK to my loving parents Carmen and Denis, in that incredible time that were the Sixties. My parents called me Mari Carmen, although my dad pronounced it 'Mary' Carmen. My mother, being Spanish, kept the Spanish melody, speaking to my brother, Tomas, and I in her native language. My brother also had a Spanish name, but we mostly pronounced as is the custom in English. When my brother started calling me by name as a toddler, Mari Carmen was apparently a mouthful... he shortened it and made it into one easy word: Carmy. I didn't use it myself until many years later., but that's another story...​
Las Cármenes in the Family and Lineage
In the photo you can see, left to right, the youngest Carmen (myself!) at that time, my Abuelita Carmen (my Spanish Grandmother), and my Mama, Carmen Gómez Martínez.
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To Be Continued...
