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Come with me, back to the year 1973. I was fifteen years old, and my older sister and brother had just spent the past decade listening to the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel on vinyl record LP’s. I wore bell-bottom pants, and parted my long, straight hair in the middle.  I liked to sing, so all this 1970’s teen needed was a guitar to accompany herself. Paul Simon’s guitar playing spoke to me, and as for George Harrison?….Something in the way he played moved me…

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Hello and welcome!! You’re listening to Song Stories, Quiet Stories. This is podcast episode 9, Relatively Speaking. I am your host, Carolyn Murset. This is the first bonus episode of the new original one-woman musical, Tales of Tila, which premiered at the Electric Theater in St. George, Utah, in October 2018.

My special guest, Grandma Tila will arrive any minute now. Episodes 1-7 go in order chronologically. so if you haven’t yet listened to those episodes in this series, it might be a good idea to do that now, then come back. That would give her more time to get here. This bonus episode stands alone, though.

Many thanks to those of you who have  sent me your story contributions. Don’t be surprised if you hear them in a minute or two! Are you listeners ready to get your Spanglish on? 

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Hello, and welcome! You’re listening to Song Stories, Quiet Stories. This podcast Episode, The Temple and the Ledger, is number seven in the series from the new musical, Tales of Tila. I am your host, Carolyn Murset.     My special guest, Grandma Tila will arrive any minute now, so if you haven’t yet listened to the earlier episodes in this series, it might be a good idea to do that now, then come back. No worries if you don’t listen in order.  The stories might make more sense if you did though.

Many thanks to those of you who have  already sent me your story contributions.  Don’t be surprised if they show up in a later episode! Are you listeners ready to get your Spanglish on? 

Hola!  This is Tila Miera Trujillo.  What are some of the ways that you communicate with your family and friends when you are not standing right in front of of them?  I’m not talking about yelling at each other from across the room, or the yard. And don’t tell me you write messages on paper airplanes and fly them  to each other. Don’t be silly. I’ve heard that your telephones nowadays are really fancy and are NOT connected to the wall? I…. don’t believe everything I hear.

Listen now and find out  how Trujillo and I left messages for each other.

Find out who drove me and the kids who were still living at home  the eleven hour journey to Mesa, Arizona, and how long it took my stubborn viejo to change his mind about going there with me. What is the longest you’ve had to wait for a loved one or friend to change their mind about something worthwhile that you really wanted them to do. What?  You’re still waiting? Don’t lose hope.

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Hello, and welcome! This is Song Stories, Quiet Stories podcast episode, La Familia,  number five in the series from the new musical, Tales of Tila. This is your host, Carolyn Murset. If you haven’t yet listened to Episodes Zero, and One through Four in this series, it might be a good idea to do that now, then come back. No worries if you don’t listen in order.  The stories might make more sense if you did, though. 

Thank you, Carlos, Lynn, Irene, Sam and  Mary for sending me your story contributions. Don’t be surprised if they show up in a later episode! I’m now also looking for Christmas stories at Grandma Tila’s house. Remember the wall to wall kids sleeping on the floor in the living room? The empanaditas?  Are you ready to get your Spanglish on? 

Hola!  This is Tila Miera Trujillo.  Not really, it’s her granddaughter, la Carolina pretending to be me. I don’t mind. One of these days, she’s going to  be brave enough to be herself and use her own voice. But because of her, some of you have listened to my other stories and wondered, “Why in the heck would she do something like that?”

I was only seventeen years old when I married, and eighteen when I had my first baby. Nothing prepares you for the loss of a child.  Those of you who have had that happen to you, will know what I’m talking about. Have any of you lost more than one? More than two? It doesn’t get any easier, does it?  If you haven’t written about it yet, you might want to give it a try.  No matter how long it’s been since it happened, writing about it could help ease the pain.