We love you all year long!
I hope you can feel the heart and soul of Women on Fire on Valentine’s Day this week — and every single day of the year.
We bring you inspiration, strategies and support, yet above all, Women on Fire is about love. Love for our dreams and our passions; love of cheering each other on; and love for making a difference in the world and in our family’s lives.
Women on Fire Tea in Naples, Florida last Friday. Lots of love and energy from us to you! Front row: Marie LaBrosse, Tamara Caggiano, Debbie Phillips, Lisa Umberger Arundale, Donna Kim-Brand. Second row: Janet Glancy, Amy Leigh Mercree, Mary Wiggins, Barb Zion, Jan Allen, Jenifer Madson, Kitt Moran, Jamie Eslinger, Plus Hall and Julie Shepardson. (Rob Berkley Photo)
Still, a girl needs her flowers and chocolate and a kiss so I hope no matter whether you have a honey or not, you will give and receive lotsa lovin’ and have a Happy Valentine’s Day on Tuesday!
Right now, I’m watching the Grammy Awards and you will not believe this.
Last night I “discovered” Adele.
Of course, the rest of the universe has been buying her songs and helping her to break music records held by the Beatles for oh, 4o years or so!
Still, until the other night I had no clue of this 23-year-old’s enormous talent and presence (Pathetic, I know…I must get out more!)
A friend suggested that I watch Adele’s recent DVD, so Saturday night I slipped it into my computer and stayed up way past my bedtime in awe of Adele performing at her dream-come-true Royal Albert Hall in London.
Like a two-fisted drinker, I watched her mesmerizing performance on my computer, while on my iPad, I googled information about her life.
What a Woman on Fire. The daughter of a single, teen-age mother, Adele has an astonishing ability to connect and make us feel through her songs of heartbreak and redemption.
Mostly though, I love the way she totally puts herself out there — every bit of herself in service of her music, her songwriting, her life.
And, when there was criticism about her weight (you’ve got to be kidding me that that kind of thing still goes on?) she let it roll off her back and responded, “I make music for the ears. Not the eyes.”
At the moment, Adele has swept the Grammys. Good for her!
And, good for each one of you who is stepping up and out in the world no matter your background, your circumstances — no matter what. You won’t be stopped!
I love this picture below from last Friday’s tea because it was the first time I met Woman on Fire Kitt Moran in person. She and her music partner Janina Sebesky, a long-time Woman on Fire, are collaborating to take their musical play CHICK SOUP to New York City and to the theater district of Broadway.
What strikes me daily about women in our community is that no matter the ups and downs, we stand strong together. We put it out there. Janina or Kitt, best friends for more than 40 years, are taking their dream all the way. Just like Adele.
