Today I want to wish my hero a big Happy Birthday. My Mom, Anne Glenning, turned 70 today. She is one of the most beautiful, intelligent, spiritual, giving, loving, kind, and amazing joke. When she tells a risqué joke nowadays we have to laugh because it’s funny but also because she cracks herself up. I hit the Mom lottery with her.

She teaches me constantly and challenges me to stand for what is my truth even when it’s not hers. She’s modeled what parenting an adult will look like with a delicate balance of attachment. She’s so classy, graceful, and sophisticated and yet, totally badass in being her own woman. She started working at 19 and changed careers in her 50’s. If she had a motto it would be Rosie the Riveter. She is definitely a let’s find a way if we really want to do it. No matter what Catholic School, Church, or CCD told me, she would tell my God’s love was unwavering and unconditional, just like hers. I put her through a lot of shit in my teens as I was hurting so much. She would move a mountain for me, just like I would for my children, but taught me that we have to move our own mountains.

We don’t always understand each other but yet we are best friends. She is the yin to my yang. The Universe put a limited edition out this day 70 years ago, a one-of-a-kind gem of a woman who has the capacity for love, patience, and forgiveness, while still being boss, in charge, fair, and a force to be reckoned with integrity. And finally, one of the lessons she taught me was before I ever heard if the Law of Attraction is to focus on what you want, positivity is power, and don’t pay attention to the things that lower your mood. (I thought in 5th grade she was a wimp for my watching scary movies, just like my kids think if me.) She was just a vibe snob and I totally get it now.

I teach this all the time.  It’s important what we put in our body, as in food, and what we put in our minds is even more important.  You are constantly putting in new info, but is it of value?  Read good books, chew on inspiration, write of gratitude and your vibration will change.  Be a good person.  It feels good.  Don’t do it out of guilt or try to be a martyr.  Then you just resent people.  Do things for others for the joy of it.  My Mom volunteers at the Rescue Mission in Atlantic City because she is a good egg.  She helps the CASA, an organization to help foster children. She does these things because she has a heart of gold.  She always looks even more beautiful because that heart shines through her eyes.

I love you, Mom. You’re a Goddess of awesome, the Queen of all good things.  Blessings to you!  Blessings to all.

http://www.acrescuemission.org/
http://www.casaofnj.org/