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en-la-casademiamor · 4 years

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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound--Mayor Ed Koch

I’m going to begin many of the following sentences with the word, and—because whatever I say, it’s been said before. Countless times. In different places and in a variety of languages and tones. And I wonder if we gain anything anymore with words, no matter how it’s written or who it’s spoken by, but I’m willing to try.

Here I go—And I remember it was maybe 1983, and my dad’s office window faced the Empire State Building. And I can’t say I was surprised by this when I first went to the skyrise he worked in. Maybe in some unidentifiable way, I felt my dad was successful and that this office, with its large window that faced a NYC landmark was befitting of how I viewed him.

In any event, my dad had a green thumb. He could make any plant not just grow, but take over. And so he had this type of plant that I always heard Cuban’s call, la malangita. And the full breadth of this plant circulated the entirety of his office. He was quite proud of this plant too, as if it were a child to him. I have inherited tons of its photos. My dad made sure to leave them with me when I last saw him in 2013.

My dad’s office window had no curtains. I’m not sure there were even blinds and it was a very large window. I remember the vines from this plant criss crossed right in front of the extra large pane. NYC on cloudy days, its skyline can appear quite steely looking. Its buildings can look exaggerated and sharp in its dimensions; and on this particular day ( I visited), I guess it was overcast because the green from this malangita just popped like in the way color pops when a comic book artist applies it to a strip that was primarily drawn in black and white. The plant’s green bled through, while behind the grey; the immensity of The Empire State Building stood stern.

People were very friendly at my da’s office and I remember how they loved him. I was made to feel welcomed by them too. Everyone looked elegant but walked casually. I remember that warmth, the soft jazz on low. Every aspect of this place was in sharp contrast to where my mother worked before she finally left the textile industry in the mid to late 80′s.

But before she left, she had worked for a long time in a factory that made tablecloths for places like Macy’s and Bamberger’s or Gimbels. The building my mom worked now houses the wealthy, which is always interesting to me; how gentrification has worked over the years.

I remember what it was like inside the building and in the shipyard. With distinction. The workers there were primarily from Latin America, so when I’d go, I could hear many of them hollering in spanish, Evita! Mira quien esta aquí/Look who’s here!

The building in where my mom worked was big for Hoboken. It towered over the nearby brownstones and bars that littered Washington St. The only elevator in this particular building was a freight elevator that carried up tons of spooled fabric that would come right off the docks. I haven’t seen ships docked in Hoboken in a long long time, and I guess I never will again.

When there was a fire, and there always were, employees from this factory would have to use the cement laden stairs. And if you fell down these stairs while exiting—And people did, you didn’t fair very well—And I’m not sure who paid for the medical bills accrued, but I recall that plenty of people were afraid to sue. They just did their best to mend in order to go back to work quickly.

And I remember too, when come January, expected layoffs would roll in—And the women, would call each other; and cry, despair, and fret. When my mother was laid off one year, she got called back about less than a month’s time later. This seemed to be the rote factory people were used to. I enjoyed her being home. I think she enjoyed it too.

By the time Reagan became president, factories took a massive direct hit. Most companies were finishing up the aspirations they started up with Nixon, and many of the factories that lined up against the Hudson River went belly up—It may have been in 1986 when her beloved employer never called her back. In the long end (it’s good to note), these closures would affect my dad’s job too; as he was an managing accountant for very large department stores, famous ones, that would die hard in those years.

My mom wound up getting some other, lesser type job down in Hoboken or maybe it was Jersey City, after that. She didn’t make tablecloths anymore. She had to pry apart lace from its overall sheet. I’ve worked at this before. It’s very hard on the eyes.

I remember going to that place in particular, too. It was a bigger death trap than the factory on the docks. I had been very ill on the day she took me and she had needed to take off, which managers from factories absolutely hate. She had decided to show up to speak with the managers on the day she took me because I think they had threatened to fire her. And I guess she brought me along as proof; that I was not well. Imagine having to drag a sick child into a filthy factory to demonstrate need of absence? Well, she did this because she needed to level some sort of independence against my father. Times were that critical in my family.

She left me outside the office door when she went into speak with management. People around me generally ignored me while I was there. It was as if I didn’t even exist. They weren’t friendly, I thought, like at the other factory where my mom worked at for many years. They looked hollow too. Indifferent. In any event, I guess I got bored of waiting. Or of being ignored? —And so I quietly opened the door to find my mom getting on her knees, pleading in order to keep her employment.

I was struck by the scene. I wanted to rush in there and pull her up. The memory is as indelible as any profound experience anyone can have. The look of the young managers impressed upon me too; and how old everyone else looked in comparison to them. My guess is that the factory was something that was passed down to them by their families.

My mom got to keep her job that day, but I expressed my complete discomfort in her keeping it. Imagine a child having a say. She said to me, what can I do? You know I need this job. Within a few months time, my mom wound up passing the US Post Office test—And this would be her employer until she retired. Thank God.

I write all this to say, I deeply value everything my eyes have ever witnessed. Not just what I’ve lived, but what others have too; that these differences in class that existed right in my home have served me well. Very well--In my line of work and how it’s enabled me to connect deeply with people who want to connect deeply, at every stage of my life.

At an early age, I was asked by something outside of me to see past illusions, past the clothes people wear, past the accents that overtake the english language. I saw what my father could afford and how my mother had to scrimp. I lived too, the real time punishments of racism; how my father was belittled when he went into stores. His fancy gear, great education and position did not afford him anything in those moments.

I’ve been put into circumstances that have challenged me to consider one way of life over another. I may not get it right all the time. There’s just no way anyone can get it right all the time, but I venture to stay in the breast of humility; and I don’t need to be right. I just need to do right.

Those years in where industry was collapsing all around us; in where nothing was secure anymore; those years made me aware of the human need for dignity above anything else. Nothing matters if a person is not treated with dignity. Nothing matters if a person’s basic needs are not respected. And what are our basic needs? It can mean many things, but they all have to ring true in its highest form. I’m not sure why I needed to write of this today, but it’s gloomy out, and the lessons of my childhood are speaking to me.

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