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Publisher’s Letter
You’re Never Fully Dressed without a Smile “Use your smile to change this world, but don’t let this world change your smile.” - CONNOR FRANTA
Dear Readers, It’s beyond crazy that we are already in the month of March, and spring will soon be upon us! The world is moving in a maddening rush all around us, and the irony of this moment, compared with the last two years, of what seemed like interminable agony for so many – is not lost on me.
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world, a microcosm of multiple generations, ethnicities, talents and hometowns – it was a place filled with possibilities, filled with joy and filled with smiles – smiles you could see!
I smiled, thinking of how much this moment in time meant to my daughter, me, and everyone there. We have gotten through something we I was sitting this weekend at a Musical Theater don’t understand, and we have endured things competition for my daughter – the budding we can never really forget or come back from, Broadway showstopper but what we can do, is smile Miss Keeling Birdsong again. Smile so everyone – and I realized that this can see and push forward past all of this. It does feel competition, two years ago, like this March symbolizes was when “normal” came a shift for our world when to a screeching halt. For it was that weekend when it comes to the virus. As the world began to buzz, we shift to supporting our fellow humans and peace and our thoughts turned – loving friends in Ukraine to impending doom and and all around the world – an unsettling fear over it does strike me that if we this new phenomenon known as COVID-19. I can keep on smiling and can distinctly remember keep on singing, dancing, whatever inspires us to be thinking, as we traversed a Keeling Birdsong, Maribella Martin normal – then we can get large hotel filled to the brim & Emery Thornton through anything right? with an overabundance of people from all over, that if catching this new virus As we enter the spring was possible, it was surely possible here. Little Williamson County, here in our little corner of did I know that once we left that weekend and this vast world, pray for Ukraine, thank the Lord returned home, that life as we knew it was going above for the end to the pandemic and smile. That smile has been missed. Normal has been to change. missed. And we can never allow ourselves to Isn’t that a funny thing to say? I mean, in so many believe again that normal isn’t something to of our lifetimes, we really haven’t had to say treasure, strive for, believe in and smile about. something like that. The world turned inward, and everyone was expected to hunker down, hideout and, oh yes, wear a mask. Another for, believe in and smile about\ thought as I sat watching hundreds of talented kids on stage this weekend, performing their Shelly Robertson Birdsong hearts out… all while wearing a smile! And a Editor In Chief | Publisher smile I could see. No more masks! Seemingly shelly@robertsonmediagroup.com no more fear. And yes, in a small space of the
