Friday, January 6, 2017

A mysterious, magnificent, radiant, silly and graceful woman

That would be Elizabeth Grace, my dear daughter.

I wish I could be as honorable, as funny and even half as smart as this woman.

She loves animals, of course you know she's a "bee keeper",  (from my post of June 16th, titled "You said what?!") feeds the birds, longs for another dog, we are sadly renters, has the best lap for cats and they go straight to her, even though she has allergies and never minds.

Babies are drawn to her, she can make them laugh and giggle and wave when they only look at me with a "what?" look.  She's a baby sleep maker when mother's are at their wits end. She longs for one herself and holds adoption like a candle in the window.
                                                                              


She is funny and light hearted and finds humor in almost everything - I don't - so thank God for her and her rapier wit.

                                                                           
After seven hours of massages (she's a therapist) - that's seven bodies, standing for seven hours - 5 days a week, and she still comes home funny! (see below, shhh, she would kill me)  
--  She put herself through massage school, without help from anyone, broke and addicted to alcohol and has since overcome that, to go on to a helping career.  Astonishing! 
                                                                            
   She is fallible and hard to admit her mistakes, but that's because she holds herself to such a high standard. She is rarely ever cranky, but has started her "Cranky" business to help others  not take themselves, and this often hypocritical world, so seriously.
She is beautiful at 43, but never thinks so.
          
Even when she was a fresh new flower at 21.
But she is and always has been.                             


She has had defeat after defeat and failure upon failure that have almost broken her - overshadowed, thankfully, by her accomplishments and her constant ability to overcome. That's the definition of success in my book.

She cries and cries sometimes at the unfairness and lack of justice in her life, and that it is repeated in so many other lives in this world and she wants to save everyone. She has now been heartbreakingly overwhelmed with the insanity of this election and the resulting world wide chaos and, as well, what it could mean for the gay community - so here is what she is doing to overcome that.....
                                                                               
                                                                               
She has bought bag after bag of toiletries and practical survival items and just fun things to distribute to the homeless. She puts them in her car and when she encounters someone on the corner at the freeway intersections, with their signs asking for just a little bit of help, she hands them out.

Mysterious, magnificent, radiant, silly and graceful, I look up to her and hope to become more like her, ~ Elizabeth Grace.

(Don't tell her I wrote this, she would be so embarrassed, (well maybe not, as she is, and would be glad to tell you, a rock star!!) - but she is remarkable and deserves recognition.

19 comments:

  1. What a remarkably beautiful soul your daughter is. Her strength and caring are magnificent. Lovely.
    Xoxo
    Barbara

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  2. She is one of a kind - but then everyone thinks that of their children, and rightfully so.
    Thanks for saying that, Barbara, she'd love it. xo

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  3. It was nice to view her through the eyes of her loving mother. I like the idea of her little care packages for the homeless. She seems like an amazing woman.

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    1. Yes, she is amazing, Colette. It's reallllly cold here so we are both going out today to give them out. It's sad but good.

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  4. what a beautiful daughter you have, inside and out.

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  5. Beautiful woman -- beautiful mama.

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  6. Oh what a Wonderful Tribute and your Pride in her shines thru brightly and brilliantly! May her Hope for an Adoption manifest... last year I Adopted two of my Special Needs Grandkids that I've been raising since Birth... one was now 15 and the other 10 at the time... it was National Adoption Day and so Wonderful to see all of the Children at Adoption Court finally getting their permanent Homes with the Adoptive Families who Love them so much! Happy New Year from the Arizona Desert... Dawn... The Bohemian

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  7. WOW! Gorgeous :) I'm so glad to see the girl you love so much. May she know her strength. She's lucky to have a mom that loves her like this.

    -SJ (I can't log in on this laptop).

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  8. Well, she has someone to take after: you. :-) Beautiful, beautiful post. I need posts like this one in the midst of so much ugliness.

    Greetings from London.

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    1. Greeting from crazy USA. Sick recently, but soon back to reading - miss your writing!

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  9. How awesome is your daughter. As members of that Gay community who are also overwhelmed with this administration and its uncertainty, please thank her for us. We're all in this together. Stronger Together!

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    1. So, so crazy here. But hold strong. The line is much stronger when we hold hands instead of standing alone - your certainly not alone!

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  10. Just checking in to say I miss you!
    Xoxo
    Barbara

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    1. Oh, thank you, Barbara! Somebody actually missed me! (I feel like Sally Fields at the Oscars..remember?)
      Anyway, deathly sick with the flue (get your shot and I'm not kidding!)
      Sickest I think I've ever been in my whole life..hospital and all. Mending now, but hard to look at black and white things..screen. It will get better, soon I hope. Thanks again and take good care of yourself X

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    2. Eek! Oh no on the hospital. Hope you're 100% again soon. Already got my shot. Flu is some scary serious stuff.

      Xoxo
      Barbara

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    3. So glad you got the shot! Yes, the Flu is really scary. Still not recovered and it's been almost a month!
      Next year I think I will get two shots...haahah

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  11. How beautiful this post is, and I know every word you say about your radiant daughter is true. What a gift to watch her journey. She is so clearly an empath, hence her need perhaps to push the world away at one point. And now, she is welcoming it in, all who need her. I'm thankful for people like her in these times, in all times.

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    1. Alcohol addiction is a disease, like so many others, that can't be fixed it can only be managed and it's a tough demon.
      She really needs those words now. There is something that is pushing her and I will tell her your words. I'm sure they will help.

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