Yesterday’s songs
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Chapter VIII: When the older brothers marry
Historical Center, Santiago de Queretaro, Queretaro.
It was an acknowledged fact: Mother was an exceedingly busy woman! Between her daily tasks at home, a full-time occupation in itself (especially when considering our enormous family and our extremely large house), as well as her involvement with the intense literacy campaigns, so typical of those times (teaching people, basically from the rural areas, how to read and write), and additionally, the almost full-time, responsibilities as Secretary to the Western Section of the Sandinista Woman’s Forces, she was definitely hard pressed to find spare time for herself or the family, much less for that endless to do list, which overfilled her days.
Yet, in spite of it all, she was a cheerful and an extremely happy person. Singing songs by Carlos Mejía, she went about her day to day. Even now, after so many years have gone by, whenever I listen to any of Mejía’s revolutionary songs, so decidedly popular at the time, my mind evokes this wonderful image of Mother doing her chores, as she sings. The memory of her powerful voice, as compelling, as brimming with life and bursting with emotion, immediately fills my soul with a deep nostalgic feeling. At the same time, it transports me to this inner world of peace and serenity, where everything is right, and nothing wrong can happen to me.
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