1) Brenda's Song - America (From Songs From The Women Of The L. O. M.) Comments

Brenda's Song
I had either lost my debit card or it had been frozen by the bank, thus almost literally being stranded in the Middle East, not being able to get to my funds, which would have easily turned a progressing nightmare, once again into an overdue vacation, but the former, disaster, was vying incredibly hard to be victorious, and the only person that I knew on the outside who could help me figure out what was going on, was Brenda, my youngest sister, who would have to call banks, foreign currency exchanges and struggle with the time zones to constantly try to track and coordinate the differences; though because of the time differences, at one, two and three o‘clock in the morning so that the exchanges would be open after transactions had been sent and completed.
She is no advent at taking care of business, for if I had her mental dexterity, I would have twice as much completed, in just about everything that I pursue; seeing her work around the clock, literally, and quite often; and by the age of forty, already having put in twenty years in the same business. Starting from the bottom and climbing the vertical ladder, breaking through, whether it being glass ceiling or removing the proverbial top from the metaphoric glass jar that many of us struggle with on a day to day basis, while teaching and working with children; a most fastidious affair.
In the below piece on the pope, suddenly, in retrospection, did I remembered writing that there was a strange relationship between women and myself; a message that they were trying to communicate to me, and later below, in a prayer that I had written, so not to forget such an astounding message, that at that moment I could not do anything with, I put in a prayer, stating that it was the Year of the Woman. And only until recently could I truly put the pieces together that I had struggled to try and understand after seeing how arduously, myself, my sister Brenda and this small group of women worked through a trying austerity to keep calm a worsening affair or should I say a worsening foreign affair, until recently.
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