i love being a woman : mo edwards {natural cowgirl, artist, singer/songwriter, most sincere and brilliant heart you'll ever encounter}

self-portrait by mo

no woman should go through life without a girlfriend like mo.
she'll do anything with you and anything for you.
she'll sing harmony with you and make you sound like a pro.
she'll tell you you're beautiful and ask you to sit for a portrait.
she writes songs that make your heart weep and your feet tap all at the same time.
her art is simultaneously personal yet universal and awe-some.
she shows up to your autumnal equinox parties dressed as an acorn
and comes to all your other possibly lame-o parties and rescues them with her presence.
she laughs at all your jokes, especially the dumb ones.
she knows what you want to say before you even say it,
but she listens anyway.
she's elegant and beautiful like no one else i know.
a woman to the core.
she is currently the artist in residence at this ranch
and...she just got engaged to the sweetest man!!
so happy for her.
here is her wonderful, wonderful list:

my feelings and experiences as a woman

1. Women are intuitive: they know without being told, they can see withheld tears, they can hear unsaid words.

2. I have a temper that I rarely speak of.

3. I hiked naked with some girlfriends once and we giggled the whole time.

4. Women have to continually reconstruct what it means to be a woman, and then continually deconstruct ideas of femininity.

5. I know a woman who had a double mastectomy because of breast cancer, and now she goes running with out a shirt or a bra.

6. I know a mother who had a horrible year, but instead of it destroying her, she somehow became more like herself.

7. I love hugging my mom and listening to her heartbeat. I love it when she braids my hair.

8. I feel too childlike to be a woman.

9. I don't like wearing shoes or brushing my hair.

10. For Christmas my grandma gives me poetry that she writes and her old jewelry. And also free stuff she gets in the mail.

this is one of my favorite songs mo wrote...
there's a couple false starts on this video,
it really picks up at about 50 seconds.
this was our 2008 autumnal equinox fest...it was a favorite night of mine.

thank you so much, mo, for sharing your list
and for being such a beautiful woman and friend.


mo working this past summer at the salt lake city farmers' market

p.s. mo is the dear friend i owe the most gratitude to...

she introduced me to ceej.

life will be perfect if i can have these two in my life

forever and ever.