Selena Quintanilla Pérez : The Greatest Woman Selena is the greatest female performer. Her star was the brightest. Her energy was her life, her life was her music. Her presence and passion on stage was her manifestation of all these qualities. Her voice was her lion's roar. Her energy was an explosion. Her explosion was a love for life. I am 56 years old today. I remembered her when she was alive. I appreciated her then, but I worship her today. We live in declining times, declining cultures. I will not speak negatively of others, only to say that I realize now more so how great Selena is. Selena was a very strong woman, a very feminine woman, and those go together hand-in-hand. She was a very sexy woman by nature, au natural, with elegance and purity. She became who she became. She was an original. Selena was a self-made woman. She didn't come from famous parents. Nothing was handed to her. She came from a poor family but a very supportive family. There is no woman l
During the 1980s there was a song called "Promised You A Miracle" but I always heard it as "Promised You America." And that is where my blog received its title from. In the previous century, after the Second World War, many Europeans sought to immigrate to the United States. America was the promised land. It was a beautiful, safe country. And a free country, there was no welfare state. The immigrants that came to America had to work to survive, there was no alternative. My father was one such immigrant after leaving Holland after the Second World War. He worked many odd jobs until he became his own salesperson, first selling Dutch chocolate from his VW van to supermarkets in the US, and thereafter, eventually by hard work, becoming a successful fine art dealer. One of my first jobs after arriving in America in 1983 was that of a busboy at the Bankers Club Carnelian Room. Some people might look down on that but I was looking down upon them as the restaurant was on