My Lady of the Lantern

A particular doctor in my current city is on a publicity trail, with photos published of women in her clinic who reported pregnancies through IVF in her clinic. Now, this is a big deal because remember, that I live in a city, where I trust docs only uptil IUIs, and I need to travel to another city for anything above that. I was happy, that such (professional) practice had begun in this city. I had forgone a chance in September 2009 to undergo IVF in this city , at the same doctor's. What I was a little ticked about was that photographs of the women who had conceived through IVF were published, and I think that this compromises their privacy. Nobody publishes photographs saying: " Hey, this woman had crazy s#x and is now knocked up .", but it was a matter of curiosity and novelty to point out women upfront who chose another not-so-hot way of conception. Maybe I latched onto that transgression because I am slightly more sensitive than a common person about what phenomenon t...

Was browsing through the newspaper today morning and they had an article on the babies born after 12 o'clock on New Year's eve. Wow! I can't really describe to you how there was photo after photo of chuggly-wuggly pink cheeked cuties! (Nine in all) The newspaper reported that the city had registered 205 births on the first two days of 2009! Some statistics that is not anything to me at all. Anyways...I was only observing the faces and what has registered to me now, is that I did not feel upset or angry or lacking. I only saw the pics, relished the radiance flowing from them and that is all. Buddhaesque? I think I must become more disciplined with my Vipassana sittings, which I have lost the inner urge for. My past experiences have taught me to expect breakthroughs only after reaching the ultimate limits of frustration. When I went for IVF last year, I believed that I had reached that limit and so, some positive outcomes would come my way as had happened in the past. But now...