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\nAugust is Women’s Month and August 9 is Women’s Day in South Africa.\u00a0 Women’s Day is a pubic holiday, so activities range from musical and performing arts events to lectures and speeches, and even to cookouts called braai<\/i>s, like the one I am attending today.\u00a0 It is delightful to be greeted by friends and colleagues who say “Happy Women’s Day!” and I was inspired to share some stories about some of the most important women in my life.\u00a0 As a part-time African, I should begin with my elders, and I’ll keep sharing more inspiring women from both my American and South African realms as the month continues.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

MOM<\/span><\/b>\u00a0– as she used to say, “it’s WOW, upside down.” My mother Linda Leake Wilson, the mother of five children, eight grandchildren and one brand new great-grandchild.\u00a0 She was one of those amazing women who raised children in the 1960s-1980s, and I remember hot meals cooked from scratch every day as a child.\u00a0 Her chosen career path was nursing, out of which she developed a great sense of observing other people and to this day, can seem to look at me and tell if I have a headache.\u00a0 One of my favorite memories is when I was a child and needed a topic for a 4-H presentation.\u00a0 So she taught me the contents of a proper first-aid kit and set to work teaching me how to use it all.\u00a0 I still carry a first-aid kit wherever I am teaching, and say, Thanks, Mom and Wow!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\nMiss Linda and me above in 2017 with our new hairdos.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\nAunt Janet\u00a0<\/span>– my mother’s sister, and my constant fan.\u00a0 Aunt Janet is one of those aunts who never failed to attend my endless performances, recitals, graduations, and yes, both weddings!\u00a0 She is a fun-loving person and is pictured here with her beloved husband of many years, my late Uncle Bo.<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

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\nMy beautiful and wonderful sisters, Cindy Wilson Kopelke and Laura Wilson.\u00a0 Cindy lives in Baltimore with her husband Paul and daughter Lucy.\u00a0 She and Paul have four children between them, and I love the concept of “family meetings” they embrace in the household.\u00a0 Cindy is a lover of music, literature and humanity; and a teacher of children who speak English as a second or third language.\u00a0 Her teaching is surpassed only by her extremely thoughtful approach to life with all its challenges, complexities and joys.\u00a0 \u00a0 Laura is a mother to three college-age children and lives in Wytheville, VA.\u00a0 She has just become a Professor of Law at Appalachian School of Law, after many years serving the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u00a0 Laura is known for her fierce devotion to the people she loves and I am so thankful to be one of them!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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