There was so much more, I watched him build a business of his own, with his hands, working with wood. I was able to help with my mom evenings and weekends around the wood shavings and stacks of wood and tools. I learned how to use tools and love the look and smell of wood, can appreciate the hint of oak flavor in bourbon and wine. He was humble and quiet, but when he passed away, the number of people that told stories of how he came and fixed things for them at their house or business was countless. He never talked about doing these things for people. He just quietly did them.
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"The Hurricane" is my favorite movie, for a number of reasons. I support kindness, diversity, helping the underdog and rooting for the one that just has no-one else in their corner. Look it up. Not many people know about this movie, very few people that I ask have seen it. But the reason that I love it the most is because it demonstrates something that I am so passionate about and has ironically changed my life. I do not recall when I saw the movie. It had to be sometime after 1996. But in the movie a foster kid in Canada randomly finds a book at a book sale and in the book he finds his destiny. Watch the movie to see the rest.
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Individuality is a concept that I hold dear. As I have stated many times before - we all have worth. We would not exist if we did not have purpose. Finding that purpose can be a challenge. Sometimes, we get lost and want to remake ourselves into someone else’s image. Mimic what “they” say is acceptable.
Every “race” of human beings on this planet has a right to pursue and to sustain a life for themselves. Nowhere in nature is there one type of anything. Why would human beings be any different?
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I looked up at her, curling her long, sandy blond hair in the bathroom mirror and breathed in the scent of the canned hairspray and felt so…..safe and happy. I caught her glance in the mirror and said “Mommy, you’re so beautiful!” She laughed and said “I love you.” I miss her terribly. Everything about her. Her smell, her laugh, her very essence and the way I felt whole around her.
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As a young woman I never had much respect for second place. A win was a win and a loss was a loss. You didn’t almost win coming in second place. In my mind you lost. Simple. But that changed in my late twenties. It all started with my boys
Motherhood is a momentous and rewarding undertaking for most, so what makes a woman decide not to have children? I imagine there are several reasons - all are valid. Here’s mine .
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