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>> And what I wanted to do also,
I wanted to celebrate my family.

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This is my grandmother on my mother's
side and the poem goes My grandma's songs.

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My grandma's songs would follow
the beat of the washing machine,

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turning our kitchen into a dance floor.

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Consoling the chairs placed upside down,
delighting the family portraits on the walls,

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putting to sleep the sheets on the clothesline,
giving flavor to the boiling pot of beans.

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The songs my grandma used to sing could make
the stars come out, could turn my grandma

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into a young girl, going
back to the river for water

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and make her laugh and cry at the same time.

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Is that possible?

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To laugh and cry at the same time?

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If you listen to ranchera music, all the time.

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You know, I was about five years old in LA
and my grandmother would go like ay, ay, ay!

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And you know, I did not know if she was
crying or she was laughing, or both, you know?

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I think --