The twenty four hour news cycle is constantly coming up with interesting stories.
As I fretted about the Vatican's new guidelines re cremation ( looks like I won't be having my ashes thrown off a BC mountain top), a news story out of the States caught my attention.
It seems a 16 year Atlanta teen was knocked unconscious by a blow to the head in a soccer game. When he awoke from his coma days later, he was doing something he had never done before; he was speaking fluent Spanish. His parents explained that he could already speak some Spanish but was never fluent until his concussion.
Maybe a good bang to the head might help me with my French, I thought to myself.
When I shared the story with Terry, she had some reservations about being the one to bop my noggin.
"What if I hit you too hard? " she wondered. "And, more to the point, if I overdid it, where do you want your ashes to go now that Pope Francis won't let you disassemble on a mountain?"
Compassionate yet practical...that's my Xena.
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