babyboomerette

21 Lipstick Salute to Gov. Bill Richardson . . .

Because he has stood up and spoken out . . . for the Best man running!  He heard what so many millions of us did in Obama's "race speech" - a clarion call for the truth, to action, to healing - from the candidate who's the true leader among the three.

Because he told the truth and supported the best man, even though it will cost him dearly.  Once they've been dissed or imagined they've been dissed, the Clintons never forget or forgive.  Bill Clinton, an old and dear friend, has been practically sitting in Bill R.'s lap, begging for the support he just extended to Obama. The friendship and any politically alliance ever, in the future, between them is over.

21 Lipstick Salute . . . to my girl TINA!!!!

I loved it when I turned on the news Monday morning and two newscasters, a man and a woman, chatting about the Grammys the night before cued a quick shot of Beyonce doing a number with one of my VERY MAIN GIRLS + MAJOR Boomerettes + If-God-Is-A-Black-Woman-Then-It's-Her - Tina Turner!!!!!  It was kinda cute when the guy thought Beyonce was Tina and vice versa - confused because BOTH sets of amazing legs and levels of energy looked identical - to a GUY no less.

BTW My Girl has eight Grammys - so far.

Tina is a lesson to us all, a torch bearin' boomerette if there ever was one. . . a fabulous singing, dancing, Proud Mary who Ike helped invent.  But after years of violent abuse and total control by him, she walked out, literally, with the shirt on her back.  That's when My Girl started doing the inventing on her own - emerging as a more powerful, more beautiful and even more famous woman than Ike had ever dreamed of. She's always acknowledged that a strong spiritual life including daily meditation helped her get out, get up and become I, Tina (great book and inspiring film.) But it was her own big ol' heart, soul and guts that got her there as well.

While as the Founding Babyboomerette I adhere strongly to the belief that it's not the age, but the attitude that makes you a Boomerette . . . I just have to applaud the fact that Tina is now 68!!!!

So . . . 21 NO!  42   NO! 84 lipsticks pop their tops in salute to the Diva of 'Em All, Y'all!

21 Lipstick Salute . . .

            21 Lipsticks instead of a gun,  because lipstick gets a lot more done . . .

Get out those lipsticks for the late Beverly Allen, a petite woman just over 5 feet tall who became a high-kicking, feather-bedecked showgirl AT THE AGE OF 80 with the Fabulous Palm Spring Follies. This group requires you be at least 55 years of age to join and Allen was the oldest showgirl still performing, until SHE STOPPED WORKING AT AGE 87.  “A sparkling gem of a dancer” as one of her colleagues put it, she was 90 when she passed away in 2007.