Rogelio

So I've got this Father in Law Rogelio. He's actually my ex Father in law since I'm not married. One of the funny things about knowing him is that I never knew him when he was actually my father in law. AnyhowRogelio is one of the most interesting people I've ever met. By an unforeseen and unique turn of events we ended up spending most of the afternoon together on Wednesday and he sort bore his soul to me. He seems like the kind of guy who will kind of bear his soul to anyone. I'll post his picture someday soon.

Rogelio is 62 years old.

He was born in Cuba.

He came to the US in 1980 because he was on a mission to go to San Francisco and have a daughter (mission accomplished the rest is history).

He is going to go to the Florida keys and live in a trailer and catch fish to survive.

He told me a lot of things yesterday:

He told me that in Cuba when he was boy most people spent no money all year, and saved it all to buy nice clothes to wear on Christmas day.

He told me they didn't need money much because everything they needed just grew out the ground or was fished out of the sea. They just had to throw some seeds on the ground and melons grew up.

He told me he hated Castro because he has seen how Castro destroyed everything in his country piece by piece. All the political stuff he told me made me an even further entrenched libertarian.

He told me that in Cuba the walls of the buildings that used to be as nice as here are broken down. Windows without glass and buildings without roofs. I can see how much it hurts him that the walls of his country are broken down just like Daniel and Nehemiah. I should have told him to pray for Cuba all day for awhile and see what happens. It didn't occur to me.

He told me that in Cuba the Government keeps the people poor so they can control them. That everything has to come from the Government and you only get it if the Government likes you(including healthcare so there Michael Moore). If you ever say anything bad about the State you become the enemy. And staying on the good side of the State gets harder and harder because whatever you give it is never enough for them.

He told me that in Cuba to go from one city to another you have to go through a check point and be questioned.

He told me that the people in the US have never seen what State control does to a country and a people and thats why people in the US vote Democrat.

He told me that in 62 years he has never understood women and he told me that when I'm 62 I won't understand them either.

He told me that every day in Miami a Cuban man kills a women. This is apparenlty because both the Cuban men and women are crazy.

He told me that he felt like the force of destiny pushed him to do some of the things in his life. Pushed him to come to San Francisco and have a daughter. Is pushing him to move to Florida and some day back to Cuba. Pushed him to show up at Rosary's house unanounced in the middle of the night Tuesday.

He told me things in life are destined you can't change them they are written in the book. I agreed with him about the book and told him God wrote it before He created the world.

I told him the Gospel. He wasn't offended but was more interested in continuing to talk about his own ideas. I guess it runs in the family...

And I mean that part of the family that's descended from Noah.

Rogelio is a crazy man whose done crazy things.
Rogelio is a very sad man.
I really really like Rogelio.