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I submitted a few photos I took in Miami to TIG's Global Gallery, so my thoughts are all on Cuba right now. Hmm. Over Thanksgiving I talked to my abuela about her childhood in Cuba, or more specifically, her relationship to her sister. Like, did you both get along, did you fight; what kind of things did you do there growing up; what do you think about people visiting for tourism or leisure?

My grandmother (step-grandma, although I am part Cuban) is blond-haired and blue-eyed, with incredibly fair skin. She has always had a very active life stye, enjoys travel, and likes to dance. She spent the better part of my youth trying to teach me to salsa and to get me to do La Macarena (hard because I listened to grunge at the time, so Latin music definitely wasn't my thing). I'm not embarrassed that I couldn't learn to dance from her, but I'm glad she asks me what I ate at the Versailles restaurant on my recent Miami excursion and said, Oh you like bistec empanizado? I can make that. Oh, yucas? Moros? And inwardly I am happy since I know that she wants to and will cook that meal for me, for us, because it makes her happy that we'll reconnect the culture with that dinner. It gives us a place and reason to evoke her upbringing and the Hispanic culture that I seem to be missing right now.

Yes, I want to visit Cuba, if only for a weekend, to see it, smell it, and hear the sounds of life from its streets.

November 30, 2008 | 10:16 PM Comments  0 comments

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