Good morning children! It is just about 10:30 am and it is a lovely day here in Playas de Tijuana. I just had a blueberry protein shake for my first breakfast. There is no oatmeal yet - it is on its way. I have maintained the Overton family tradition of oatmeal for breakfast. Today I have a busy day ahead of me, with lots of things to do related to San Diego: my university, taxes, Court things, etc. To be honest, everything having to do with San Diego is a drag.
I realized the other day that I don’t even know where you are, if you are in Boston, or in Ottawa, or who knows where – no one has informed me of your whereabouts. I am not allowed to webcam with you or even call you on the phone, whenever I have sent things with you, like the CD we recorded singing together or the Black MAMBA t-shirts, somehow they would get lost in your mother’s house. I thought about sending you guys my Kung Fu video collection, but it is very expensive to send things even by the cheapest mail, and I fear that it will suffer the same fate as the other things I have sent with you, so for now this is all we have.
Do you guys still remember the Chief Pappis stories? Do you remember Oyabun and Mero Macho and Coco Liso? Well, I promise I will continue working on the stories so that one day they will be there waiting for you. I have been writing a lot of things over the last few months, but mainly in Spanish.
Alex and Julia, there are many lessons one has to learn in life, and perhaps the most important ones, and the most painful, have to do with loss, with losing the things we most care about. Do you remember the episodes we saw of Kunta Kinte, from “Roots”? The boy who was growing up in Africa and then he was captured and taken to America to be a slave? Do you remember how he had to accept that that was his new life and that he would never be able to go back to Africa and see his mother and father again? Well, sometimes life is just like that. People in particular, take things from you and you don’t have the power to get them back – all you can do sometimes work your mind to accept your situation. It is like that with for now: while there is still hope while I await decisions in the Court of Appeals and then perhaps in the Supreme Court, for now I have to accept that I am denied contact with you. This is the greatest lesson you may have in your lives to learn: life is not fair and it is not just, it simply is, and often we are cruelly subjected to the whims, fancies, and desires of others more powerful than ourselves. All we can do in these circumstances is learn to be strong within, for we can find a shell of strength within ourselves where no one can defeat us, no matter how strong their force is outside ourselves. That is the true strength of the Enlightened Warrior, of the MAMBA Master, to create a shield inside himself beyond which there is no suffering, only the knowledge that his pain is in favor of a just cause, even if that just cause is simply at the service of the voice within that says “Hold on!”
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