FEB 06, 2020 – You may have read the Cardie Newsletter I sent last Saturday, in which I wrote about how my late mother believed life was all about seeking “truth and beauty.” Well, in her own way over the past few days, the original Fairy Cardmother let me know that I neglected to mention the important need for laughter. “When there’s so much pain, frustration and anger in the world,” she would always say, “we have to make a point of balancing it out with fun, joy and laughter. Whatever comes, we’ve got to keep laughing, Jo. It does the heart good.”
Mom would have appreciated my good friend and Contributing Cardie Candy Clausell, who sees the humor in life and laughs as much as anyone I know. This new card message makes six that Candy has written. (So you know, she became a Contributing Cardie by submitting potential messages that we then published. In this case, Creative Coordinator Liz and I saw the great cowgirls image and sent the pic off to all our Contributing Cardies for input.) Like a well-made magnet, Candy’s message stuck!
Candy says that, when she saw the photo, she was reminded of “two great friends that I’d go to dinner and clubs with back in my 30s. They were — and still are — very fit dance instructors with studios of their own. But having great shapes did not stop these Jersey girls from occasionally asking me, ‘Does this outfit make my butt look big?’
“Of course that was in the days before women embraced the shapely ‘gifts’ they’d received from genes or exercise,” Candy explained. “Thinking of these gal pals made me smile because, while they worried that they were too well-endowed in the derriere, I envied them … I had inherited a flat behind that no number of squats will cure!” For the record, Candy turned 69 the day before yesterday, and no pole-dancing 50-year-old has anything on her. :)
~ jodee stevens
founder & chief creative
…and, if I don’t guffaw every once in a short while, I cry, so there’s that! Thanks for this I have a sister from my earliest journeys who spends her life on horses in South Dakota after the cornfields of Wisconsin. This little treasure is on its way there! <3
I have sent a friend “big butt” cards for decades. This is the best!
This card is hysterical and made me look twice, because it doesn’t include
“….make MY butt look big”. Way too funny. Thanks for an uplifter. After the last 48 hours in political world, I need something to smile about. Anything.
I try to have a good laugh at least once a day, being a full time Grandma is so easy to have more than one. Thanks Jodee to add one more laugh today for me.
According to the Queen song, these are the ladies who “… make the rockin’ world go ’round.” Thanks Jodee and Cardie Community for a good chuckle today!