Three Messages And a Warning
“In Mexico City, the same year and month, Ángel Márquez, judo instructor, enthusiastically summoned his students with great hopes for progress and achievement. One can imagine their white suits, black belts, serious composure, and graceful movements patterned after the motions of crickets and other natural creatures. In that same fringe neighborhood, known as Echegaray, far from the eyes of God, my mother was befuddled by her second child, myself, a newborn girl, wailing for milk, while the news...papers displayed images from outer space and the cause of my father’s absence since the following evening was confirmed. Meanwhile, my older sister, who really was not much older than me, being barely two at the time, was sleeping—and my mother hoped that somewhere in the universe or in the city there was peace to be found, for she longed to experience it.
My mother often spoke of peace. The television news broadcast images of Vietnam continuously, bombs, napalm, and such, while “I pray for peace, to be at peace, a world at peace”MoreLess
My mother often spoke of peace. The television news broadcast images of Vietnam continuously, bombs, napalm, and such, while “I pray for peace, to be at peace, a world at peace”MoreLess
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