Inspiring

While searching for words to support an IF friend yesterday, I remembered an inspiring song from my days as a camp counselor. I searched for an online version so I could share it with her. After re-listening to the lyrics, I was struck with how perfectly this song expresses how I feel about the women I have met through the Internet infertility world.

You all inspire me to do the things I think I cannot do- whether that is injections, IVF, or picking up the pieces after I hit a low point in the roller coaster. Since I'm guessing no one gave you a card or a gift to honor you for NIAW- I'm taking it upon myself to honor you. This song is for you. Thank you for helping me work through the most difficult time of my life.

Heroes by Ann Reed

What can I learn from you
In your lifetime, in what you've been through
How'd you keep your head up and hold your pride
In an insane world how'd you keep on tryin'
One life can tell the tale
That if you make the effort, you can not fail
By your life you tell me it can be done
By your life's the courage to carry on

(Chorus):
Heroes
Appear like a friend
To clear a path or light the flame
As time goes by you find you depend
On your heroes to show you the way

What can I learn from you
That I must do the thing I think I can not do
That you do what's right by your heart and soul
It's the imperfections that make us whole
One life can tell the tale
And if you make the effort you can not fail
By your life you tell me it can be done
By your life's the courage to carry on

(chorus)

Sojourner Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt
Katherine Hepburn, Sally Ride
Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman
Annie Sullivan, Gertrude Stein

Coretta Scott King, Amelia Earhart
Lillian Hellman, Eartha Kitt
Sacajewea, Ella Fitzgerald
Golda Meir, Dorothy Dix

Louisa May Alcott, Billie Jean King
Emily Dickinson, Lucy Stone
Margaret Sanger, Clara Barton
Billie Holiday, Juliette Low

Elizabeth Blackwell, Rosa Parks
Lena Horne, Beverly Sills
Barbara Jordan, Helen Keller
Indira Gandhi, Agnes DeMille

Corazon Aquino, Gloria Steinem
Rachel Carson, Joan of Arc
Babe Zaharias, Marlene Deitrich
Anne Frank, Simone de Beauvoir...

As one of my heroes, you are among great company, too!