absolutely me

This week, I heard the news about an acquaintance of mine. She was pregnant for a few months, as a matter of fact, at the same time I was pregnant the first time this year, before we lost our dear baby. But then she learned her baby was not picture perfect. The baby had Down Syndrome. And so, she decided to "terminate" her pregnancy. She had an abortion, which took three days to take place, took pictures of the baby she just killed, had him cremated and took him home. Now, I REALLY must come from another place, another dimension where this is absolutely outrageous. As a matter of fact, the place I come from is NOT politically correct. In that place, things are called by their name. Under these circumstances, for example, what this woman did is legally considered a crime, and it's called by it's true name, murder . And the perpetrators go to jail for it. But here, it turns out, people feel for a woman like this. People feel sorry, and pitty and empathy. And I just won

My favorite song ever. : "Todo a Pulmon" (sang by Alejandro Lerner). This was my favorite song as a teenager. It's kind of funny that more than 20 years later, after two husbands, two kids, one on the way, and a LOT of cynicism in this head of mine, this is still my favorite song. I have changed in so many ways, I can't even count them. I am so much older, but not necessarily wiser. I am much more calculating, I take less risks, and I have, pretty much, turned into the adult that I so much could NOT understand back then. Funnier yet, the adult I SO refused to be. No matter how much I've changed, I guess deep inside there is a certain passion and a certain fire that refuses to die, even though reason tells it to. That part of me that still refuses to settle, that refuses to lower her head, that refuses to sell herself and her ideas, comes out screaming when I hear this song. Absolutely me. This is absolutely MY song."