A Farewell to Dixie

     With the Passing of Ms. Dixie Carter, or as y'all may know her "Julia Sugarbaker" from the show Designing Women, I am taken back to the episode when Dash Goff, a character played by Mississippi's own Gerald McRaney visited the women and dedicated his book to them. As they sit around Julia reads the dedication of the book.....a dedication to the women of Sugarbakers, and to all Southern Women......This inspired me many years ago to write a poem.

 Here is the Video...brings a happy tear to my eye:
Julia Sugarbaker Reading the Letter from Dash

Being Belled

Written October 21, 2002

We have time together and time alone

We have time to laugh and time to moan

We have our evening and our day

We have our moments when we like to play

We own the room whenever we enter

We own the hearts where we are the center

We are strong in mind and strong in soul

We are strong in will and always in control

We are those women men dream of at night

We are those women for which men love to fight

We are the subject of many a book

We are the catchers of many a look

We are the sisters and daughters

We are the mothers and lovers

We are the hope and the peace

We are the beauties that tame the beast

We bring laughter and we bring tears

We bring answers to all your fears

We want to love and be loved

We are as delicate as a dove

We are the southern belles living today

In a world where southern is slipping away

The Scarlets are gone slowly with the wind

Fading gently around the Mississippi's bend

Yet when one day in our arms you are held

You will know that you have been belled!

To our beloved firecracker Dixie Carter/Julia Sugarbaker

may you be surrounded by Sweet Tea and Magnolias in Heaven!

~Hugs N Kisses Sister Belle