Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Dear Wisdome


It's getting harder to call you Wisdom now that your personality is become more apparent...(we might end up calling you elbows).   Not that I don't think you're WISE, I just think you might be more than WISE, like maybe you're WISE and tricky.   Like, maybe I don't get to decide who you are.   
I know you can hear so you're hearing the belly commentary as we are about the neighbourhood.   At this moment in Canada, most 14-year-old young men don't notice pregnant women (or women over 25 years) and certainly, to generalize here, don't talk to them, certainly not initiate any conversations or yell out "Hey Mom" to his Mom sitting washing clothes across the yard "There's that pregnant white lady.   She's definitely going to have a boy don't you think?"    There was an 18-year-old yesterday who, as I approached said, "You've got 3 babies in there!"  "3 !!!"   Sometimes the commentary is funny and even kind.   Over the past days, i've been thinking you might fool everyone and be a girl.  Know that whoever you are we will love getting to know you, love you and learn to love you as you will us.     

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