I'm grateful for...

It's been just over one week since Oprah's last show'.

How moving and profound was that show!

Over the last 20 years, I have watched this program when I could. On sick days, in between jobs, on rostered days off and while breasting feeding my babies. Unfortunately, over the last couple of years, time has not allowed me much time to sit and watch TV at 1pm in the afternoon.



(I loved Madonna's words to Oprah)

But after sitting with a box of tissues, watching her last three shows, I have been thinking so much about 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' and about how much her words and often the words of her guests have influenced my life. Different shows for different reasons have had a major impact on the way I think and see things. Salt and nectar has a great post about Oprah and some of her own 'aha' moments.

I have been thinking about one particular episode over the last couple of months. It made me look at the world differently, and how I wanted to live in it..... I think there were a few different women in different circumstances, but the message was the same. It was a show on rich, successful woman who had lost everything (material possessions), one through a house fire, one through divorce. It was the young mother with 2 children, a girl and a boy who stuck in my mind. She had moved into a two room cottage in the country, they all slept in one room and she took up home crafts like quilting, and growing her own vegetables out of necessity. They could not afford a TV or a car and they spent their time together exploring the woods, bike riding, reading and drawing. She stood there glowing, telling how she had never been so happy.

I have always had a 'were there's a will there's a way' attitude, but after discovering Oprah when I left high school, I believed even more in my ability to make things happen. To choose my own destiny. Without Oprah, I wouldn't know about the beautiful Maya Angelou, Kiva or 'not to be taken to the next location'. I would not have started a gratitude journal. I wouldn't even know about Martha. There are so many important books that I have read because of her and beautiful music I have bought.



I am grateful today, that that little girl from Mississippi found her voice and shared it with the world. Look what she has achieved.

What could I achieve?

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