SaintInThe CityOfAngels™© #FelizNavidad #ChristmasDay #Dreamers #MexicanAmericans #HolidaySong
#MerryChristmas
#Chanukah :
https://calililiindies.bandcamp.com/track/saint-in-the-city-of-
Ok this song has three titles.
Yes. Just, Could not pick only one.
It also has a life history, a real one,
because it is dedicated to a special person,
and to his community, our sisters and brothers.
I’m releasing it ahead of the album, as a shoutout / love letter to “The Dreamers” here and every-where.
To the Dreamer in your own soul.
In Memory of Videl Diaz Mariscal,
A “Saint” i met in the “City of Angels”
and
for Videl’s brothers + sisters
Videl is gone too soon at a local hospital, …
where I sang him this song on his deathbed. A moment for which I am grateful.
Videl grew gardens for an apartment complex in the “city of the angels”
and he also cleaned the bathrooms + swept the grounds there too,
and Videl was my friend.
I still wish I could have saved his life some-how. It took a long time for me to get over his passing.
This song is also a “love letter” to the as yet unnamed parking attendant at the local emergency room I had to be rushed to, when I dislocated my shoulder after a recording session.
The gentleman working as a parking attendant at that local hospital, was the only kind person i met at both of the hospitals.
Doctors, nurses, receptionists, left me to languish screaming in agony from that dislocated shoulder …
but that parking attendant … working for less than minimum wage I assume … he was the only one that cared … the only one with sincere empathy that night … + he kept saying to me “ mama good, mama strong …” that man too, is a “Saint’ in this City Of Angels.
And this song is a love letter to the Mexican-American young girl I met outside the Cat Hospital, moments after my beloved "CallieCat” was put to sleep by that cold system inside the “Cat Hospital” …
The Girl, called herself “A Stranger,” walked up to me at midnight outside that Cat Hospital and showed me the kind of compassion that Veterinary Doctor could not …
As my kittycat, CallieCat was writhing in pain at the VCA, I felt my heart rip, straight out of my chest … “ (ctd.)~>
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