My Mother Endorses Positive Aspects of Family

In this day and age of advocating sanction of dysfunctional families, I challenge any screenwriter or filmmaker to capture the essence of what my mother so eloquently said about family in answer to the question, "In your life so far, what is the one thing for which you are most thankful?"
Answer: I am most thankful to have been born into the family that I was…because it was here that I learned about faith, morals, ethics, pride of country, how to make good choices, learned to love literature, music, art, drama, travel, education, self-worth and self reliance, and a sense of humor to tie it all together. I learned to judge people not by race, color or wealth, how to treat my fellow man, how to fill the different roles that I would have to play in this life…daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin, niece, friend; how to cope with the hard times…illness, death divorce, lack of funds…and how to appreciate the good times and how to play. To sum it up, I learned to see beauty in creation and in people, how to be a child of the world and how to be one with the universe. Barbara Glazier

Sincerely,
Becky Mate