The Dee Gene

She's got it...I truly believe she has it! Kate has a writer's pen.... could it be the Dee gene? She doesn't look like I look. She doesn't think like I think or act like I act. But I've recently read some of the things she has written...."I am a part of travelling to tan skin and warm oceany breezes"......Turn that phrase, Girlfriend! "I am a part of North [her elementary school] where I discovered who I really am and where the teachers never underestimate what you are capable of....I am a part of Rucker [her middle and current school] where my dreams start to come true.....I am a part of friends where there is never a dull moment, and where I always feel at home"....Beautiful, Baby Girl! "I am a part of the Gamecocks where anything is possible if you believe." Whoa, hold everything! What skill, what talent, what wordsmithing ......until she penned that last line. Hard to believe this child is the product of generations of Clemson fans.

After a recent day long beach fishing trip, Kate quipped on facebook that "all she caught were someone else's line, the pier and one fish".... clever.... and true. I was there. As an aside, suddenly on this trip, Kate had all kinds of offers of help from the young male pier fishing community. She was definitely attracting attention, and not all of it because she was catching virtually everything except fish!

It doesn't bother me (not much anyway) that she looks like her dad does and talks like her dad does and acts like her Dad does. I would feel redeemed if only I could give her a writer's gift, a way with words that would provide her solace when she needs it, an outlet when she needs it, and the ability to communicate not just words but feelings. I wish for Kate that someday her words will attract the attention that her looks are beginning to attract.

Last year, I shared a poem for a parent project at my son's school. In it I wrote, "It's reading that gets imagination going, but writing is where creativity starts showing." So true. And, after all, what would one expect from a blogger. I have such high expectations for this daughter of mine...who may just carry the Dee gene.