“GORGEOUS GRANDMA DAY”
On July 23rd, Gorgeous Grandma Day recognizes all women of a certain age, whether they are grandmothers or not.
Not all women become grandmothers. Those who do, don’t necessarily fit the traditional mold any longer. Others still reach a point where many assume grandmother status, even though no grandchildren are about. Gorgeous Grandma Day embraces the age of the nana and encourages all women to flaunt their granny attitudes with purpose and style.
While some grandmas fit the traditional mold with gray hair and cookie-baking, home-making, hug-giving, child-spoiling energy to spare, many grannies sport a whole new role. Many take on the part of grandma to the children in their lives.
No matter the type of grandmother they are, they’re all different. Some play the hippest games, wear the latest styles, and know how to find the best deals on technology. Even the grandkids can’t keep up! Funny, sassy and energetic grandmas, rebel grannies and smart grannies make the grade, too.
In many scenarios, grandmother-types step into the role where no grandmother remains. These women lend ears, laps, and hugs, much like the nanas of memory. Of course, they build foundations and set young men and women on their path.
Nearly all of these fantastic women pass down family traditions while teaching children to stand on our own. Full of wisdom and wit, what would anyone do without their nanas? They go by many names, but they’re all gorgeous in their own way.
On Gorgeous Grandma Day, let the grandmothers in your life know how much they mean to you.
HOW TO OBSERVE #GorgeousGrandmaDay
No matter your age, be your gorgeous self. Maybe you’re a grandma, and perhaps you’re not. It doesn’t matter. Own the attitude and celebrate. Use #GorgeousGrandmaDay to share on social media
GORGEOUS GRANDMA DAY HISTORY
Alice Solomon created Gorgeous Grandma Day in 1984 to honor women of a certain age, whether they were grandmothers or not. It’s a time to recognize their accomplishments and their abilities. Their lives have only just begun.
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“Elvis Presley… America the Beautiful” ****
Elvis Presley America The Beautiful
Written by Katherine Lee Bates.
Elvis recorded this version on December 13, 1975 at the Las Vegas Hilton. He sang it many times in concert.
It was the B-side to My Way. It is available on Elvis Aron Presley (The Silver Set) and Live in Las Vegas.
O beautiful for spacious skies For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesty Above the fruited plain
America, America God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea
Oh beautiful..for spacious skies For amber waves of grain For purple mountain..majesty Above the fruited plains…
America!…America!… God shed His grace..on thee.. And He crowned thy good, with brotherhood From sea…to shining sea…
America!..America!! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea…to..shining..sea!!
AMERICA!!!
Elvis performs “My Way” (Live) ~
Recorded in concert on Tuesday June 21, 1977 (8:30pm) at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Sadly, The Lord would call him home less than two months later.
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“Friendship Quotes”
Some of the best book quotes about friendship…
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
“Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream.”
″ better not to have had thee than thus to want thee: thou, having made me businesses which none without thee can sufficiently manage, must either stay to execute them thyself or take away with thee the very services thou hast done; which if I have not enough considered, as too much I cannot, to be more thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit therein the heaping friendships.”
“Love opens the door of ancient recognition. You enter. You come home to each other at last. As Euripides said, ‘Two friends, one soul.‘”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
“He’s just Finn. We’ve been friends too long and I know him too well, you know? And he’s still a boy, Doda. If I ever find a man, he’ll have to be a man, really a man, to handle me”
“Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt
ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does:
let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.”
‘‘‘I know,’ he said, breaking our embrace. ‘Inshallah, we’ll celebrate later. Right now, I’m going to run that blue kite for you,’ he said. He dropped the spool and took off running, the hem of his green chapan dragging in the snow behind him.
‘Hassan!’ I called. ‘Come back with it!’
He was already turning the street corner, his rubber boots kicking up snow. He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ‘For you a thousand times over!’ he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner. The next time I saw him smile unabashedly like that was twenty-six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph.”
“A good deed, “said the prophet Mohammed, ‘is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another.’
Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer?
Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very
thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.”
“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”
“A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.”
“Love your pals. Love yourself.”
“And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right.”
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
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“A Moveable Feast Quotes”
Some of the best book quotes from A Moveable Feast
“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
“She did not like to hear really bad nor tragic things, but no one does, and having seen them I did not care to talk about them unless she wanted to know how the world was going. She wanted to know the gay part of how the world was going; never the real, never the bad.”
“It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I’d had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
“The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.”
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”
“His talent was as natural as the pattern … made by … dust on a butterfly’s wings.”
″‘We’re always lucky,’ I said, and like a fool I did not knock on wood.”
“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war.”
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“Get that High School Diploma, Some HOW”
“School and Work continue”
When you are young, there is nothing better than to get into a regular program of schooling and work and some young people are more able and willing to be more enthused seeing to it that, LIFE has a definite plan and the sooner you set your aims high with plans that will work, it is then, best to follow through with your best of efforts!
My first choice to finish my High School credits on a course by course of study was at the “Hadley Tech School” in Saint Louis, which may or may not be there now, as the City has done some major building and lots of changing over the years, at least since I was going to School.
Here I am, took my camera to School to take a few PHOTOS… just to let everyone at my place of employment… at the Telephone Co., know that I was in School on those days, that I was working the “split-shift” schedule.
Sometimes, when you are working and want to do something, and ask for a change of your hours, to be able to do that which you need to get done on a certain day and time, I am guessing that, they (the Employer) may not quite believe everything that you are saying, so… just to be sure, that they knew that when I ask for something, it is because, that is what my PLAN… is and something to be an improvement and I need to be doing!
This is the class …where I would go for my assignments.
The Instructors are standing and the class of men are mostly “Service Men” returned from where they were stationed, and are NOW doing that which, I am trying to do… get those credits that are needed to finally have that “HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA” in my hands.
Not to have that “DIPLOMA” back then… kept a lot of people from getting that “Work Career” that they were dreaming of, and so many were most anxious, to do what ever it took.
That Document… was of great value.. that little piece of paper, that would get your foot into the door of “OPPORTUNITY!”
Working that “split-shift” the hours would begin in the morning, from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. Then you would be off work all afternoon till 6:00 pm. Then you would return to work till 10:00 pm.
So, you worked… only seven hours and were paid for eight hours of work and in addition to that.. you would receive a designated rate for “car-fare” on your pay-check, which made it so very much more worth while for me.
This is a guess, but I am thinking, that we may have started out around a $1.00 per hour working back then, and also had to pay “Union dues” and something came out of your pay check for the “United Fund” … and to make sure of all of this… I would have to check some of my old pay stubs, of which I have… just in case, I was ever in need of checking out just exactly that which… I was making?
When you are young and dumb, not knowing what to save, and for what, that something would be needed, I just got in the habit of saving most documents of any kind, as some people collected assorted things, and now… after so many years, you would hear that this old “relic of something” was worth millions.
Guess that I was thinking that… that would be the way, that I would make my first million, by saving an old collectible!
“Thanks be to the Almighty Yahweh… that I have found out, that I do not need to save something that might be worth a million… as I would not know, what to do with that million… if it drop down right in front of me!” D.V.
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“Dial “OPERATOR” for that Voice with a Smile”
“Nothing like Making a Telephone Blouse”
One thing that I really did a lot of, was to buy patterns of different things that, with the right material, would like to wear and just found this “Telephone” material, figured that… when working for the “Telephone Co.,” one should let people know, that I like working there so much so, I advertise that fact by wearing a blouse that I made and it is just full of nice little “telephones!”
Way back and then, the above photo 0f the dresser that I am partly sitting on, does have a really nice mirror, a piece of furniture that had been in the Family for so long… guess that, when it came to moving we sold it and with a few other pieces of furniture and they all had a nice heavy sheet of “marble” – that if we had kept them… they would be still in style.
Also much better than the light weight stuff that is made today. But that is what happens, when moving it is better to just get rid of the good stuff and end up with buying the cheaper stuff down the road.
That was well made, as I am sitting on the edge of the dresser… just low enough for someone and what a terrific mirror. It is really hard to get a real good mirror, today!
The PHOTO on the right was taken, just for a full length PHOTO of my newly made blouse with a favorite skirt of mine, a PHOTO just for effect.
Do I like it this way, or would it look better another way? Always had to take a PHOTO with something that I had made for myself, sometimes just looking in the mirror, you looking at yourself, do not see that which others would be seeing and sometimes, the PHOTOS will give you a better idea, as to… will this be a “keeper” or will I be giving it to someone, that just may like it a bit more than I do?
Back then, working for the “Telephone Co.,” there was a young girl that started working the same week as I did, and she did like some of the items I would wear and wanted the same thing but, in the material that she would provide me with.
So, I would sew different things for her and for my “TIME” she would also give me a few yards of different materials, some I liked and made things for myself and there were some materials, that I just never used, but it was FUN sewing for others and we did have FUN working together!
It is amazing how much, I was able to do back then, evidently the days were longer than they are today, or just maybe as we get older… we start to slow down… where is the rush and why “RUSH” when you do not have too!
The main thing back then or as I always thought, was that…
Everyone knows that when you dial ‘O’ for OPERATOR… you will receive a “voice with a smile” and just so that, you can put that “voice” into a picture, now just maybe.. you might remember seeing the above photos!
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