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Dottie Lessard
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Username: Dottie_lessard
Post Number: 90
Registered: 03-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 10:29 pm: | 
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As I sit here typing this I have goose bumps...still...the girls did it! Christina and Ali made it to the Top 10 of America's Got Talent!
I am SO PROUD and SO HAPPY. This victory, their singing, is so much bigger than just a talent show and just a sister act. It is a testament to what the human spirit can do. A testament to the very thing i try to get across to everyone I work with or talk to-YOU can do and be anything you want if you find your purpose, what you are meant to do and be and engage in that emotion of desire to want it more than anything. When you do this, you open up the doors, the flood gates to the opportunity for you to make it happen. You must walk through, you must believe it from deep down and never let anyone take that belief from you-no matter what just like Christina and Ali.
As I watched the girls sing I remembered my own "dou singers"...Me and my Penny. YEP. We sang our little hearts out to Queen "We are the champions" at Penny's grandparents house and my dad will never forgive me for somehow taping over that cassette tape..Sorry AGAIN Dad...I know it is embedded in your heart as it is in mine. The difference was we weren't very good, the similarity, we sang with these lungs others called broken and I can remember when we hit the high and long notes we poked out our chest with pride and made those notes extra long and extra loud to say "na na na na na ...yes we can..."
It was a sort of spite in us determined to defy what was expected. And at 13 years old we certainly did. Little Ali resembles my Penny so very much and to see her on that stage standing proud and determined with her sister ignites my soul and comforts my heart. I lost my Penny a week after her 21st birthday and two months before mine. I held her hand as she went to sing, study and breathe easy in heaven.
I know that Ali will not have the same story and I am so grateful for that. Thanks to the many people who have committed their life to finding a cure, better treatments, etc for our disease, these two girls can sing their hearts and lungs out for a lifetime to come and I believe they will. The coolest thing... they are making the choice to LIVE FULLY with CF and not allowing anything to stop their dreams and goals. They sing for the joy of it, and they also know they sing for their life, the quality of life they want to live. What courageous and amazing girls. And they don't want to be pitied or treated different, just treated equal while sharing life lessons with the world.
I have been blessed to live with Cystic Fibrosis for 43 years and tonight was a very proud moment for me as I watched these girls defy the odds and prove to the world that living with a disability doesn't make you disabled-if you chose to turn the obstacles into steps towards triumph than the disability becomes fuel and even a gift at times to remind yourself and others that the mind, the spirit, the soul, the body can do magic when it is allowed to "step on stage" Please remember that, understand it, embrace it.
Sing your hearts out girls and all of america will be cheering you on. My cheers will be loud and full of pride and hope for you to win on the show but more importantly in LIFE.
Now I ask you all... think about what choices you can make today for your own song to be heard and celebrated. And I am not talking about "singing" (Lord knows I gave up that talent years ago). I am talking about what you want most in the world, what your hearts desire is...in honor of my Penny and those girls who are singing their hearts out on that stage, defy your odds and sing your song....
I know watching Christina and Ali tonight has made me proud and determined to push through my obstacles more committed than ever to work towards all I can be, do, and become. Thank You Girls for making me proud to be a part of this CF family,
LIVE LIFE FULLY,
Dottie
Dottie,
Author of "The Seven Letters That Saved My Life"
Coach, Athlete and Mom to Liam
Survivor of
Cystic Fibrosis, Double lung transplant 94, Kidney transplant, 03
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Hostess Rise
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Username: Rise
Post Number: 14249
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 03:25 pm: |
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Beautifully said Dottie! I got the chills watching them on TV the other night.
I certainly hope they make it through to the end and win or at least make it to the top five.
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