Whenever I feel lost, empty, wounded, or alone. I come here to LA to see my Abuelita. She’s about to be 95 years old soon. I want to appreciate her kindness and wisdom while I still have it in the physical world. In some weird way that I can’t explain it is a way of healing the great sorrow that I have in my heart and soul. It is the only way I know who to. When she is gone. I will no longer heal the same. I will finally grow old and this head of jet black hair will begin to turn grey. I told her that I wrote a song for her and all of the impossible things that’s he survived in life. She just chuckled and asked me why. I said it’s because I can’t imagine going through all that she did. My Abuela had 10 children. When Peru collapsed into bombings civil strife and the economy collapsed in the 1980’s she came here with me and my parents. She’s stayed in NYC with us for a little while but then she came here to Inglewood in 1984. My great grandfather was a very hard working man who had a lot of success in life although he was blind for a little while. Long story for another day. But he died when he was young and the woman he remarried and her previous children stole everything from his only daughter except this one house. So little by little I went about buying these little things back for my family. For her. I told her while holding back the water in my eyes that I was going to make people remember her name and all of her many sacrifices for a hundreds of years after she was gone. That she was my inspiration. I told my grandmother that I would be her revenge. That I would make it all right even though it took 20 years I did it. She just smiled and held my face with her trembling hand and said that I was a noble person with a good heart and that my success would be the only revenge she would ever need. She said that I had a brave spirit that came from my people and that I shouldn’t think of vengeance but rather the love of God in my heart. Thank you Abuelita. Thank you for healing me and for always being the toughest little soldier in my Army. Con Amor, Tu primer ñieto. Felipe Andres Coronel. #LosAngeles #ImmortalTechnique #Abuelita