Follow Your Dreams...They Do Come True!

This post is dedicated to my big cousin Shirley Coleman Landrum although she is only a year older than me. We are sister's daughters, my mom being the older sister and her mom is the middle sister of the girls. Growing up we would visit their home in what I like to call going up to country. We did not do anything in particular although I liked going for walks down the quiet roads, picking fruits and berries and just hanging out in the peace and quiet.

As little girls do, we grew up and went our own ways. She got married and traveled the US and world as a military spouse. I went my route of college, grad school then law school. We have always kept in touch and visited each other when we could either in cities we were in or when we returned home for family events happy ones and sad. 

I always admired how brave it was of her to leave home and set off to new adventures. I wanted to travel and experience different cultures, see exciting places, eat exotic food etc.  She would say she admired me and wished she would have gone to school when I did. I always reminded her of her goals for school and constantly asked her over the years about it and how it was going. She reminded me just yesterday how I would call and would just say you know what you have to do.  

Well I am proud to say I was there to see her walk across the stage at the University of South Alabama in Mobile to receive her Bachelor of Science degree in Education.  So proud of you cousin. You did not give up even when that math was causing you all kinds of aggravation. You did it! 

So she wanted to be like me in terms of completing her education and I wanted to be like her traveling and experiencing new places and things. Look at us now, she just graduated and I’m traveling! Everyone has a season and we are in ours. Blessings come to those who believe and work hard.