hewwo bitches............. just some thoughts to add here on australia day......... despite being born into a family from spain, which is to say, a catholic family, as there is basically no such thing as a family from spain that isn't catholic, not having been raised to go to any church or observe any kind of catholic rites that weren't subconsciously drummed in over various centuries of spanish culture, i find myself going to an anglican church these days, which has, as its head, the head of State of England, which is, of course, queen elizabeth the 2nd, and the anglican church has been this way since henry the 8th, who was, i think the grandfather of queen elizabeth the 1st, decided to succeed from the catholic church and extricate england from spanish influence, which, at the time, was quite strong......... being an alien race, i suppose the english way of worship of Christ, strikes me as somewhat odd, therefore, while at church, i find myself substituting all l' and r's with w's during hymn singing time and so forth, just thought would mention that.... i really (weawwy) only go to church as i find myself responsible for my toddler child on sundays so it's a good place to be, i found an adventist church that does services in spanish which i'd like to bring my son to so as enhance his spanish language skills but it's difficult to get there without a car so haven't gone yet but will do so later.....
check out picture number one here, it's a drawing by myself, copied from sight from a plate which commemorated the church tower in my mom's village in spain: aguilar de campoo
next we have a picture of myself at age 19 or 20, approximately, with my sister raq, some 26 years old in the picture, somewhere near London in like 1996, possibly Gatwick airport............ unfortunately, raq and her father, pops, both suicided in 1999 and 2008 by 'necking themselves' as is said colloquially in australia.... it's interesting to note that just north of sydney, in the central coast, there is a demographic not extremely dissimilar to the western sydney where my family hails from where the phenomenon of 'necking oneself' is unfortunately, exceedingly common.... so that it has boasted, at some point not so long ago, if not still: one of the world's highest rates for youth suicide, it was common for high school seniors to go to their garages and 'neck themselves', for example, in a similar manner to raquel and pops..........oh the tragedy
next picture we have a number of pictures: two black towers, one representing new york, another aguilar de campoo.....then from left to right, middle picture: my bro jose in his recent university graduation, he studies accounting and is doing a master's degree........he also has a diploma from a community college in accounting so he has been at it for quite a while........then a small shot which we won't mention, then raq having a squirt from some kind of antiquated wine pouch, then there's a shot of my sister trish in spain, in cuenca, a few years ago, with her uncle nacho, which is my mother's brother....she still lives in spain now..... there's a shot behind that of my boy alex, who is half spanish, quarter russian, quarter serb, at around age 2 months and then next to that da vinci's famous ferret lady, and beneath that, me and wifey in vienna, austria, sometime around mid 2007
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