It's funny how a random object can mean so much. A couple months before my Dad passed I came across a reel on IG. It featured a vintage stereo set up and included a Sansui RA-500 Reverberation Amplifier. The exact model my Dad owned when I was a very young. He called it a reverb and I remember turning the knob all the way to the laft and all the way to the right just to watch the rainbow colored display shift and blur or come back into focus depending on which way you turned the dial. That memory has been tucked away for almost 40 years but never forgotten. I sent him the reel and he confirmed it was...
I got the opportunity to return to Modesto Junior College and share my work with Melanie's SOCIO 156 Mexican Culture in US class again. Last year was my first visit but things have happened since. I've taken some big losses. On the drive back home to Ontario last year I got a phone call from my Dad telling me my Grandpa had just passed. Four months later my Dad joined him The following month, my Maternal Grandmother, Socorro, also said, "Ay te Watcho" and went home to be with her Ruco, my Grandpa Chino. I was entrusted with old family photos and volunteered to create slideshows celebrating their lives. I did the best I could and created slideshows I'd...
