Happy birthday pops.
Today you would have been 60! Jen, Teo and I are ending a really great visit to California today. We are looking forward to eating some of your favorite fried chicken in your honor before we go!
I also wanted to honor our mother (Maria Elena Mayorga) for navigating the challenges this past year and for all of our lives.
Here I will just repost what I wrote a few weeks ago on the anniversary of your passing to the other side, and the poem by Gioconda Belli that I read at your service.
Big abrazos!
– Familia Mayorga
From It’s Been One Year
We think about you everyday, but more so as we come up on a year since you’ve moved on.
It’s been a year of tremendous change for all of us,
and I so wish we could reach out to you and abuelita at our weekly facetime chats.
But we know you are with us
In those passing moments,
When Teo and I are talking
When my work gets challenging
Métale mano (get your hands in it)
You are with us
A force under our wings
And for this we thank you
Uno no Escoge (por Gioconda Belli)
Uno no escoge el país donde nace;
pero ama el país donde ha nacido.
Uno no escoge el tiempo para venir al mundo;
pero debe dejar huella de su tiempo.
Nadie puede evadir su responsabilidad.
Nadie puede taparse los ojos, los oidos,
enmudecer y cortarse las manos.
Todos tenemos un deber de amor que cumplir,.
una historia que nacer
una meta que alcanzar.
No escogimos el momento para venir al mundo:
Ahora podemos hacer el mundo
en que nacerá y crecerá
la semilla que trajimos con nosotros.
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