💐 On this Mother's Day, we bring you a piece from ReaderArchives (2021) by chicagolooks, our Windy Citizens column is back with a local mother-daughter duo.
Tucked in a side room during September’s Taste of Serbia Festival , Milena Tatic Bajich, 57, and her mom, Ljubica Tatic, 86, were simultaneously showcasing their passions . Milena is the director of theof the Tesla Science Foundation and also has a doctorate in clinical psychology. She is dedicated to spreading the word about her genius compatriot Tesla, and occasionally organizes educational exhibits about him.
My dad’s brother fled because he wanted to escape communism and have a better life. And so in 1964 he departed to Italy, and from there he came to the States. His sponsor was part of this church, Old Holy Resurrection. When my uncle came, he met my Aunt Barbara. She was half Lithuanian and half Polish, and didn’t speak a word of Serbian—just English. My uncle didn’t speak a word of English. Clearly love has its own language, because they had five children.
In 1969 my dad came here to see what it was like, in hopes of finding better opportunities for his children. After receiving our immigration papers, we landed in Chicago on April 30, 1971. I’d never seen a car or been on an airplane. I’d never seen people of different colors. I saw an African man for the first time on the plane; he was actually studying at a big university in Belgrade. He offered my sister and I a piece of candy in Serbian—our language—and that shocked me even more.
In 1894 he operated a wireless robotic boat on the water, and people thought he was doing magic. But profit was not his main motive: he was a humanitarian who wanted to provide free electricity to the whole world. He was not a freak. He wasn’t mentally ill, as some people want to make it. He was a learned, cultured man who saw the world differently.
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