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It was lust at first sight! Oh! The sleek, sexy form … The kiss of the wild … The seductive embrace of luxury …
Yes, the very first moment I set eyes on that Leopard Limousine, I was in love. And just a few short weeks later, we were reunited; on my birthday; surrounded by goddesses. After a lifetime of hosting birthday celebrations for kids and husbands, it was finally my turn. I have treasures beyond measure in my goddess girlfriends, who are creative, passionate, and fun. They all dove into the merriment, properly accessorized with leopard wear: Purses, spike-heeled shoes, and earrings, and they were draped with the furry leopard boas I made for all of us. I had even discovered a YouTube video on how to paint leopard spots on fingernails, so my nails were appropriately polished for the occasion.[1]
When the fabulous limo drove up our street, curious heads peered out of opening doors. We gals piled into the fabulous feline interior. Every inch was lavishly embraced in leopard upholstery and carpet … even the glassware was an elegant delight—imported from Italy, with perfect, laser-cut, leopard spots.
I had copied my favorite celebratory songs onto a CD, and printed copies of the lyrics. As our limo purred down the highway, we leopard goddesses snuggled in the plush leopard upholstery and belted out “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” at the top of our lungs. Get back, Cyndi Lauper!
Our first stop was to one of the places in the LA area that I love best, the Santa Monica Pier, to ride the carousel.[2] As a carousel aficionado, this 1922 beauty built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company is one of my favorites. And the entertainment industry loves it, too. Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s characters perpetrated their famous "sting" at this very carousel.
Its horses and chariots, lights, brass poles, and mirrors have all been restored to perfection. The carousel is housed in the Looff Hippodrome, a National Historic Landmark designed and built in 1916 by Charles I.D. Looff.[3]
www.merylannbutler.com Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author and educator who counts First Lady Dolley Payne Todd Madison as well as two signers of the Articles of Confederation among her ancestors. Mary Ball, mother of George Washington is in the ancestral lineage of Butler's great grandmother, Blanche Ball. Grateful to know that the blood of America's founding mothers and fathers runs in her veins, Butler has been newly filled with matriotism as a direct result of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Lest she appear too uppity, it should be revealed that she also has family ties to James Butler Hickok, better known as Wild Bill. Butler has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled enlightenment for the past two decades. A native of NYC, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006). They don't call quilts "comforters" for nothing! www.90minutequilts.com Butler was faculty advisor for "The Love for All Mankind/Anti-Apartheid Quilt" project at ENMU (1993), now in the collection of the Hon. Nelson Mandela. As Arts Advisor for the Center for Improving U.S.- Soviet Relations (CIUSSR) Baltimore, MD; her activities included the "First U.S.-Soviet Childrens' Peace Quilt Exchange" (1987-88), an historic project chronicled in the media of both countries. Citizen diplomacy trips to the U.S.S.R. in 1987 and 1988 included lectures and presentations to fashion designers, craftspeople and artists in Odessa, Moscow, Kiev and St.Petersburg, in which she focused on the topic of creating global peace through international art exchanges. Butler is the proud mother of a daughter and seven stepchildren (all grown), and a passel o' grand younguns. It is to these new generations that she dedicates her political activism. Archived articles www.opednews.com/author/author1820.html Older archived articles, from before May 2005 are here.,
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