"She loved birds all her life"... RIP Abuelita || SpeakReel Miami: Casa de mi Tia
Channel: Speak Reel
Date: 30/01/2015

Its funny how little we know about the people closest to us. My grandmother passed away on November 30th. She lived to 98 and lived a very long, passionate life. She picked up painting at the age of 60 and had her pieces exhibited at the Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art. I rarely see my father's side of the family, so it was good to see my Tias and Tios, albeit under sad circumstances. I asked for some stories about my Abuelita Lina, and it brought back so many memories for my Father, his sisters, and her loved ones.

Te quiero mucho Abuelita Lina, gracias por su amor y su apoyo. Su nieto, Pablito. 

Music: Weirddough - Don't Cry

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Transcript:
Espanol:
Era un arbol que tenian en la casa. Y se quedaba alli mirando los pajaros, y que ella no movia porque esta alli calladita. Entonces los pajaritos los acercaban, y ella conversaban con los pajaros. Ese me lo conto varias veces. El abuela Eudocia, su mama, tuvo pajaros toda la vida. Y eran pajaros cantores. Y como los educaba, los domesticaba, ese la palabra. Estaban en jaulas en la noche pero en el dia le abria las puertas, y los pajaros salian por toda la jardin y la casa. Y cuando ella queria, le ponian nombres, a una se llamaba Chico, "Chico!", entonces los pajaros de donde estuvieron se llegaron y se paraban aqui. Y por eso y mama encantaba los pajaros. Y por eso fue que tuvo el amor por los pajaros por toda la vida. Cuando termino su sexto grado, ella queria estudiar mas, y su papa no la dejo. El abuelo decia que las mujeres tenia estar en su casa. Que no necesitaban estudiar. Ella repitio thres veces por que no queria salir de escuela.

There was a tree by the house and she would stay there looking at the birds, and she wouldn't move, she would stay quiet, and so the birds would come to her, and she would talk to the birds. She told me that many times. Our grandmother, Eudocia, her mother, had birds all her life. They were singing birds, Orioles and Mockingbirds. And she taught them, she tamed them. The birds were in cages during the night, but during the day she opened the doors, and the birds would fly throughout the house and the garden. And when she wanted to, she had given them names. She'd say "Chico!", one of them she named Chico, and the bird would come and land on her shoulder. Thats why my Mom loved birds. And she loved birds all her life. When she finished sixth grade, she wanted to study more, but her father would not let her. Grandpa said that a woman should be in the house. That women did not need to study. She repeated sixth grade three times because she didn't want to leave school.