This year’s Dia De Los Muertos Santa Rosa will have an intensified aura of celebration, as it marks its 25th year on Old Courthouse Square. But the Santa Rosa tradition remains, perhaps, the most spiritual, largely due to its founder and moving spirit, Luz Navarrette (formerly of the Santa Rosa Junior College). I start up there, then I come down from the sun and the moon and the stars, into the atmospheric energy of the Earth, and the clouds and the rain, and come down with the rain to the birds in the sky—I connect with everything until I connect with the core of the Earth, which connects with the core of my being.