Watching a Billy Joel interview with Dick Cavett in the 7 p.m. slot thirty years before Shep! And it crossed my mind! There was this little girl who maybe flipped past the channel when this aired, and this idea *she’s!!* going to be on there someday!! Not just on there!! The one people alter their lives about! And scan through to see her show up!! It’s just a wild idea!! And really brings home that kind of rise of success that is unparalleled by most any measure!! “*You’re* going to be on there someday!!” And it’s weird! Surfing through, let’s just say, everything available like that from 1990, and looking at people, and knowing there really wasn’t anybody so beautiful who existed back then. So, the people they put on pedestals back then! People kinda look back at them now, and snicker a little and laugh, and say, “Oh, that’s *80s* beautiful!” Or 90s, you get the idea. Meaning their idea of beauty is laughable in some way today. And, I get it!! I do! Because *that* was the ceiling. This kind of “pre-ceiling” you!! Now that you’re here, the bar has gone way up!! It really is that way. I even used to watch *really* old movies and mourn that they don’t make women like that anymore. And, now? When I watch those same old movies, my first thought is, “She’s not as beautiful as you.” So, who can say life *hasn’t* improved?? I know times are tough, but nature sure knows what she is doing!! Because they made you. There’s been this whole evolution! And I just feel thankful to have seen it. You’re really the most beautiful woman in the world. And so brilliant, too!! But, you know me. I’m a guy. I can’t help but be hypnotized. I feel sorry for people who lived who never got to see you. I really do. Because you light up a heart and nothing is ever the same again. The way one even perceives things around them in relation to you. It’s funny I could pull all that from *that* – a Billy Joel interview on what would be *your* space on the dial in 1990 – but, well, there you go! It’s like looking back at life when the highest ceiling of beauty – the tallest idea one could dream of it being – was somewhat lower, because nobody had any idea what was in store! This adorable little girl by a TV who wasn’t even 4, somewhere in New Jersey! She’s the one who would change everything. And on a gray cloudy day in October 2020, kind of realizing I’m not even going to see anybody for another year, there’s this light. This lifting! And all this creating! Just in holding the memory of how beautiful you are! A situation impossible to reproduce thirty years ago. So, I’m convinced and I know, life is only getting better! Sometimes you just gotta look for it. This thrill and excitement of when you might turn up again. Happy new week! ☀️🍀💛🎁 Thank you so much for all you do. You do a lot, to put it mildly. You raised the bar to a previously undreamed of place in the sky. “I’m so happy to be alive!!” That’s the inner reaction – unconscious or otherwise – for those who see you. 😌