i would like to thank my sisters, maria, lete, irma, laura, and my brothers, gorge and antonio, for their prayers. coming to san francisco, witnessing for the first time it being filled with fruit, colors, serial, it blows you away. truly it is something to come to sentences go. the mayor is right, my mother did not want to live in los angeles. she wanted to live in san francisco. i am very grateful and honored that he did -- she did. in the 1960's san francisco was giving birth the consciousness. so many people in such a variety of ways build san francisco. gladys knight. dionne warwick. jimi hendrix. everywhere i went was an affirmation. you gained more strength when you claimed all the colors of the rainbow. it is infinitely more powerful to become transparent. once you claim your mexican, or israeli, or irish, then you look at it for what it is and you remember before you were any of those things. you were like and loved. those are the things they give you peace, lasting chances over the history of the planet, a lot of war happening because of religion, because of differences. i like