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The Story
Good Afternoon Universe!
Today, we share quite an amazing story about a woman, and a family, we have come to know. Amelia Orta (affectionately known as Amelita) is about to turn 100 years old!
Our Goal is to make sure she sees, 101, 102 and 110 and beyond!
At this moment, Amelia requires a surgery that everyone feels can be super successful. Amelia's family has had many challenges the past year or so that have created some financial gaps which make this surgery's cost difficult, especially in the immediate term.
If you feel inspired, please read more below, look at the pictures, and the videos, and read about Amelia’s life and our experience here… And please share with your networks, friends, and families.
The Gist of It
Our Infinite World Game project and Together community has been renting a place in Tepoztlan, Mexico for the past 6 months. We live on a shared property where the main house is inhabited by Amelita and some of her family and caretakers.
The community has grown fond of Amelia and the family here. We would like to invite our network to help us reach this little miracle. Our project and lives (in general) are steeped in love, sharing, wellness and celebration so it’s natural that we have found ourselves in a circumstance to be of service to a woman who has lived nearly 100 years and now needs a helping hand to make it to at least 110!
BIO of Amelia Ortiz from her family
Amelita is the oldest daughter of her brothers and the survivor of all of them. She went through two marriages and three children, the first woman in her family to get divorced . Amelia always had to face the vicissitudes of life alone without family support. She worked from a very young age in Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico and supporting herself selling everything she could do by hand, selling food of all kinds and made trips throughout the country.
Amelia has always been an altruistic woman with a lot to share. Her house was always full of guests to eat and spend Sunday afternoons. She was an amazing cook; she wove, embroidered, injected and cured everyone in the community. She has a strong character and yet gentle and compassionate. Amelia began to live alone from the age of 60 until the 80's being self-sufficient. She liked to have everything clean and in order, go to the Market, pay the bills and always making her own curtains and quilts since she could not afford to buy them though the bedspreads of the house were more beautiful that than any .
Unfortunately, Amelita saw her son die while she convalesced from a couple of heart attacks. After this tragic event that completely changed Amelia's life, she went to live with her youngest daughter. Regina is the youngest of her kids, she was at that time a dancer and choreographer that just like her mom started her patrimony with the effort she learned from her mother. When she had to take care of Amelita, she had to take her to an asylum for mental illness since she could not afford a normal place. this was in Xochimilco, where she stayed a couple of months and then entered a nursing home. By then Amelita already had health problems and many prohibitions but as a good-tooth woman she managed to get food to her liking by bribing a boy with down syndrome and sharing the booty of bread, pizza and cookies in secret with some friends of the asylum.
Always religious but continuously the nuns of the asylum reprimanded her for not attending mass instead she was at the garden eating sweet bread. . She was moved into another asylum but this time already in the United States in Rosarito although unexpectedly she had to change of asylum again returning to Mexico while Regina was attending chinese medicine school to earn more money , in the beautiful Cancun her daughter Laura keeps her in another home for the elderly.
At age 89, the doctor gave him only three months of travel. Regina and Amelita began to feel nostalgic for Mexico since they only had each other, with no family and nothing known that could take root. Finally she moves to Tepoztlan where Amelia continues weaving, drawing mandalas for chocolates and baking cakes. His gaze changes to become what is now an innocent and innocent grandmother, only that purity that gives time.
At the age of 96, a battle of a great kidney infection once again ends, leaving her 7 weeks in bed and 4 days unconscious. Like a whole magician of time wakes up from agony asking to eat a couple of eggs. Now she walks through his garden, sees cooking programs and loves family and friends to visit. Her gentle smile and though the rest of her organs are quite healthier than anyone at there ager but as fragile as any. Her heart fails and stops. Terrified after each syncope. Amelita little by little leaves and experiences in each syncope something similar to death. Family and friends want you to spend her last months, years, a decade? Enjoying the serene life in the company of her daughters and friends.
A Little More of the Story
Amelita has actually brought us, the family (who own the place) and herself Together! Her condition which deteriorated due to feelings of loneliness and sadness, motivated one of our cocreators on the team to share more of her natural healing and intuitive capacities with the family. This resulted in a sequence of events that were incredibly healing and emotionally nourishing not only for Amelita and some members of the family, but also for our cocreator and the physical place itself. Dancing together, listening to Amelita's favorite music and sitting in the garden transformed the place and our former, more formal relationship with the owners into more trust and understanding that 'We are family'.
A vital element of the IWG platform is holistic wellbeing and a culture that considers the whole human. The situation with Amelita exemplifies that conscious aging and health challenges in new paradigms are addressed holistically wherein individuals feel taken care of not only on a physical and mental level, but equally on an emotional and spiritual level and wherein both birth and passing on are acknowledged as important and celebratory rites of passages. It has also shown us again how empowering and magical life in the cocreative paradigm can unfold when we are given the space to share our unique gifts and to be all of who we are.
After these events, two of our cocreators ended up in a spontaneous conversation with the family owners about the gift economy, what we are envisioning with the IWG, co-creatorhood and the possibility of renewing the place. This inspired them to potentially invest and even gift towards establishing a long term community/synergy HUB in Tepotzlan or along the coast of Mexico!
LET’S DO THIS FOR AMELIA!