I love old photos and this one of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her Harvard Law graduating class photo is so rich. There are people in our lives whom we don’t personally know but we feel like we do. It’s like they are the ghostly image on your friend roster and if you were to pass them on the street, you’d be like “oh hey there!”. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the gal ghostly image on my friend roster list. I would have loved to have had her sitting at our dinner table eating surely petite servings and drinking a small pour of fine rye whiskey. Of course, I don’t really know that she drank rye whiskey or drank at all to have made it to 87 and lived a most incredible life. But part of the ghostly placement on my friendship roster, entitles me to fantasize about her selections.
I’m sure many of us have seen the RBG documentary, but what really struck me the most was how in a time when raising her children and her husband very ill and dying, she stuck to the path of dedication to justice for all. FOR ALL. She didn’t cast any votes in the other direction. Her choices for tough. Down right Mother F’ing tough. I honestly don’t known many with that personal strength. Maybe none including myself.
But Ruth Bader Ginsburg was on the planet where she made a difference and defied the odds.
She paved the way for me and all women to be treated with equality. She made decisions on the Supreme Court based upon educated and unbiased wisdom.
RBG receives the Rare Specialness Award and represents true art in her drive and creativity to spend a lifetime to develop and persevere to execute her masterpiece of justice and equality for all.
Damn, she will be missed but how great and valuable to us all that she shared her life.