“Take a look at yourself in the mirror.
Who do you see looking back?
Is it the person you want to be?
Or is there someone else you were meant to be … the person you should have been, but fell short.
Is someone telling you can’t or you won’t. Because you can.
Believe that love is out there.
Believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do.”
I once heard those words being spoken. They are also some of what my grandma taught me.
She inspired me to follow my every dream.
She told me that I was a star, even when I felt I was falling from the sky.
Why? Because that’s what grandmas do.
They let you call Santa’s hotline when your parents won’t.
Grandmas love you unconditionally … even when you steal candy from the wood box in the living room, or play dress up with their clip on earrings as they’re in the tv room with grandpa.
Grandmas are always busy, but they stop to tell everyone about you so everyone knows your name.
Grandmas keep everything --- like the mug that sat in her window at work and that everyone walking by could see.
They’ll travel hundreds of miles to see you get your college diploma and see you in the California desert.
Grandmas leave footprints in your heart and in the sand.
My grandma did every winter she spent in Florida.
Even when a footprint disappears in the tide, it’s taking the sand and bringing it elsewhere. Maybe the sand mixes with a new beach or with new footprints left by new people walking along the beach.
Right now grandma is walking on a beach … drinking one of her favorite Baileys drinks … or maybe a pomegranate martini … or maybe a glass of Piesporter … leaving footprints in the sand with the family and friends she has rejoined … all whom have left footprints across our hearts.
My Beloved Grandma: Madeline Ross Schwechter
January 14, 1923-March 11, 2014
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