Everyone knows the holidays aren't about sales, or presents. They're about loving your family and each other. So, if you wish to allow that special holiday feeling to enter your inner being, letting go will make you say Joy to the World and Peace on Earth.
Since the popular phrase is "Like Father Like Daughter" I couldn't agree more. This is truly a Soto-Mejor moment in every sense of the word. Osvaldo N Soto was born to the son of a wealthy Cuban landowner. Osvaldo studied at The University of Habana with Fidel and went on to practice law. After his older brother first departed, who was also a well-known attorney and architect, the youngest Osvaldo then left to avoid Russian style Castro Communism. He arrived in America to start over, and studied US Law while serving as a Spanish-language professor at Iowa State University, then passed the Florida bar.
Among Osvaldo'ss proudest achievements was when he founded and served as chairman of SALAD Spanish American League Against Discrimination. https://www.saladonline.org/ However, his greatest personal and professional moment occurred when his only daughter and daddy's little girl followed dad's legal footsteps by becoming an attorney and then being a Bush appointment as a Florida Court jurist.
Bertila Soto, who shares her first name with her beautiful mother serves as Chief Judge 11th Circuit Chief Judge Bertila Soto, J.D. '89: and is also a university professor Teaching ... www.law.miami.edu › news › April › 11th-circuit-chief-... The Cuban-American jurist made history as the first female chief judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, which serves Miami-Dade County.
The news hook from this journalist and reporter's point of view includes the following words, which Osvaldo wrote years ago, but still rings true today.
Dream and Reality: By Osvaldo N Soto - I have dreamed of her for many years. From the palms, the beautiful island that marveled at Colom, the obligatory little cafe, from the nights by the Malecon where Marti taught its inhabitants to call themselves brothers and that in one way or another, they were able to understand each other and resolve their differences.
But I wake up and reality is imposed on me. A man without training has changed it. Not only has it destroyed materially but more importantly he has sown hatred and betrayal. Setting father against son, brother against brother where Mistrust, and Resentment reign. God, allow a miracle to happen. Let me dream again and make it a reality.
The takeaway here is, no matter what life throws at you, it is always worthwhile to remember that it’s what one does and how they respond to circumstance that really matters in the final analysis.
Finally, in the spirit of disclosure, please know that Osvaldo is my uncle, and Godfather, making Berdy my bright and beautiful cousin. One more thing - Today is Sunday, The Lord’s Day, and Impeached Lame-Duck Donald @realDonaldTrump is at his Virginia golf ignoring one-quarter of a million dead Americans, flooded food banks suffering from #COVID fatigue that is really happening in this country, while he continues ranting about conspiracy theories and whining about imaginary voter fraud. President-elect @JoeBiden went to church, attending Sunday mass, and is hopefully 🙏 praying for everyone in the USA.
