my memaw is better than yours...

"it takes no talent to be miserable..."
-Nancy Martin Stetson Carroll

James and Jacki gave each of us a copy of this picture of my Memaw with Dick Van Dyke (excuse the flash off the glass.)
This picture is amazing not only because she is standing next to a Hollywood legend
but because it captures Memaw in her classic pose.
I look at her face and I'm right back in the same trance she put me in whenever I was with her. She was BEAUTIFUL inside and out. I wish you all could have known her.

Having this picture of her hanging on my wall is going to change my life because when I look at it I remember her qualities. She always made me want to rise to the occasion and sadly I lost some of that when she died, but I'm getting it back! This year is going to be amazing...I can feel it in the deepest part of me. I don't make resolutions I am however making a decision to reflect my heritage more. I come from AMAZING women!!!

This is the poem I wrote for her and read at her funeral.

I have gazed into you
searching for one single trait
God might have traced into me-
oh to be so beautiful.
And I have stood in your shoes
and tried to walk-
Oh to be so graceful.
And holidays
like magic simply glistened in my eyes
you were amazing.
Just as you shined
In a little girls eyes
you will remain
Shining softly in my heart forever.