For my dad.. Billy Bongos

a part of a chapter in my upcoming book- “Let The Words Fall Out”

“Beyond the door there’s peace I’m sure“- Eric Clapton — Tears In Heaven

I used to go to Northern California every summer to visit my grandma (my dad's mom), from the time I was 4 years old until the year she passed away in 1994. She had this massive house that sat on a hillside and overlooked the Bay, from the front of the house you could see the Bay Br…