It includes a letter from my grandma now with me through cooking and talking to her while doing it. She lived til’ "ninetymillions" because she was once set to pass when unplugged from a ventilator: we all cried, she coughed and gave herself some more months on this earth! For all ,I know she is still indestructible🌹
In the left hand corner! ( photocopy) the middle is a picture of a feather I foun
d in one of her old books I keep! She taught me the love and power of humbleness, reading, learning until your last breath and being strong in new beginnings. Those of you who think I was just ‘born’ strong and prone to step up and stand tall after every and any adversity:
Its the women in my life that have made me strong! And so I hope I passed it down to my daughter Gabriela Del Mar
Who makes a mother proud with every breath. She also gives me strength, but most of all hope for this earth. If you read closely you can see a history of my name, and where does Rodriguez come from. A Rodriguez comes from Rodrigo: which is the stick that holds the grapes up, of course ending in wine. (Which explains a lot)
And it comes from Galicia, from where my abuelito Pepe was born before going to Cuba and having to come here to start all over again! In a way, the story is now repeating itself as I live in Florida and have many parts of my blood come from so many places making one feel like a piece of World🌎. And then my eternal love for the place that gave me my sense of self 🇵🇷💃🏻 is spiced up with the Cuba in me and the Gallego. Get to know yourself and where you come from: embrace it! Let it empower you, carry it with pride like Abuela Angelita taught all of her nietos to do so.
