There is no gem, no diamond, greater than my Granny. For though life crushed her, though she suffered, she shone brightly for me. She showed me that one could survive and learn how to thrive, how to find the good stuff and have real gratitude for it. She said I was the love song that God sent her to protect, if it were only she that ever heard me, at least I can cherish that.
Granny had struggled to survive so many storms in her own life, yet she was still the boat, the rescue crew, the lighthouse and the warm soup in mine.
Granny was steady, a good navigator in all storms. Above all her love was was a reliable and strong, the kind that enables you to believe that the world can be a wonderful place if we let it.