Send A Word Hug

Dear Macie,

Your physical beauty is beyond description.

But it's the parts of you no mirror will ever capture that are most beautiful to me - the joy in your heart, your tender, but feisty spirit, your quiet disposition, the many faces of your quirky and engaging personality, and your boundless energy and curiosity.

You have a warmth and calmness about you that are contagious and soul-soothing, a fierce sense of determination, a laugh that lights up a room, a seemingly insatiable desire to share closeness, and a "snugglability" factor that is off the charts.

Too soon, the world will try its best to convince you otherwise, to make you believe there are missing or misfitting “pieces” of your acoustic, uniquely beautiful self, that you need a little more of this or a little less of that to be enough, to fit in, to be accepted.

The world is wrong. Don’t be misled. Wrap yourself instead in this word hug, cling to the truth about you - and just be unapologetically, unabashedly you!

Love, Papa Don