Being Southern

[UKDaisy]

Originally posted by honeychile
I've read this thread a few times, and each time, I get a little more nostalgic. The macaroni & cheese as a vegetable put me over the top, though!

I love the South! I love the softness of the voices, and the determination that is sugar-coated: the Steel Magnolia in the ladies, the Southern Gentleman in the men. I love that people truly appreciate the little things, and the sincere, "Thank You!" when you do someone a kindness. I love knowing that, if I'm doing genealogy in a Southern library, someone will ask me what names I'm researching, and maybe plunk a book down with a "maybe this will help!" I love the homemade crafts, and Miss Eulalie's homemade jam. I love knowing that there ARE Miss Eulalies and Miss Dixies and Miss Laura Lees and that when I'm old enough (and hopefully respectable!), I'll be a Miss Honey. I love the "bless his little baby heart" and "isn't that precious?" and even the "that dog's uglier than a mud fence!" I love the bang of the screen door, sitting on the front porch, and smell of magnolias mixed with insect repellent.

I guess I'm saying that, of course I love the foods (who wouldn't!), but there's so much more to really being a Southerner. I so appreciate the fact that there's a place in this wonderful country where people go out of their way to be kind, and yet maintain an air of tastefulness at the same time. Maybe I'm not making sense, but Oh! How I feel it in my heart!

As y'all know, my fiance & I are having a rough patch, and I'm trying to make him understand these little things that are part of me being me. I love who I am when I'm in the South, the knowing I can be who I really am and others appreciating it, not thinking I'm a hick. He's seen that side of me, and thrills over it. I just wish he truly understood it in the same way that so many of y'all do.

Then maybe he wouldn't have turned down that job in Lynchburg...

HEHE.....after last night I'm bringing this thread back! Honeychile, anytime you need to talk about southern life you can talk to me!!!