a reply to: Skid Mark Me too....real brief but I remember my big sister wanted to see them. Well, another MN band from home.
Merry makin' at my best this night
This New Year is my settle in time. I've come a long way from last year and found my place in this little Lost Key. I not only found a job and met
some amazing people who I'm lucky enough to call friends, but I found me again.
I've met some true Steel Magnolias. That movie was one of my faves of course, with Julia Roberts and Sally Field, etc. but I never knew what the
title of that movie really meant. Now I get it!
I've been here for a full season and have two Magnolia trees in my yard, but we had one cut down last year because it was an annoyance, in the way of
power lines and growing on the fence and just in the wrong place. She had to go and so we had her cut down.
But one beautiful spring day with that crazy blue sky and incessant sunshine that only Florida seems to blind one in the eyes with so early in the
morning, I walked outside and noticed that there was one tiny little branch growing from the stump of that magnolia. And as the spring grew into
summer, that tiny branch grew and grew into a bush. Well, we tried to get rid of her with poison and cutting and more poison but she insisted she
wasn't going down.
And as I was walking outside yesterday and glanced briefly at that tree growing yet again on the fence line and underneath those power lines, it hit
me. I know what a Steel Magnolia is and I thought...above and beyond all else she is resilient; she's someone who's always there, sometimes feeing
small, weak, tired and trod upon, but always rising up to the sun light and the blue sky with beauty and strength. She may act tough on the outside
but cares and loves deeply on the inside and will fight with all her might for what she loves and won't ever apologize for it. For all my old and new
Steel Magnolia friends I've met,