Opinion: A tender memory of making tamales and listening to oldies allays my Christmas grief [Opinion]
is director of the U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee. He lives in Chula Vista.
Your favorite oldies-but-goodies play in the background. You hum and harmonize to “Hit the Road Jack” with Ray Charles. “¡Súbele al volumen!” And now, wherever I hear Ray Charles, you’re there, too. Suddenly you twist your wrists in the air and sway your torso, and your head bops smiling. You close your eyes as if to relish an ephemeral memory. It could be of you listening to a magnetic 8-track in your old Chevy many decades ago.
Selfishly, I want it to be a crossing, to reach into what was your impeccable ability to memorize random details, have you return to us at this moment whole and miraculously reverse what doctors say is irreversible intellectual deterioration.
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