Beth Mc Daniel:  

CLASS OF 1977
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Rock hill, SC
Rock hill, SC

Beth's Story

Beth is married with Buddy Myers. Beth's schools include Northwestern High School, Ebinport Elementary School. Beth later attended Winthrop University. Beth works(ed) at Self. Beth's interests include Research, Architect, The Masters Golf Tournament. Music Beth likes includes Abigail Washburn, Induct Warren Zevon Into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Sarah Jarosz. Books Beth likes include Moonshine, Murder & Mountaineers: The Wildest County in America, Meteorites: A Photographic Catalog, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom. Movies Beth likes include Food Matters, The Sacred Science, White Christmas. TV shows Beth likes include Craig Ferguson HD, Celebrity Name Game, Harrop Doctor Who Figurines. One of Beth's favorite quotes is:""I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that loving is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles." - Audrey Hepburn "In the South, the breeze blows softer...neighbors are friendlier, nosier, and more talkative. (By contrast with the Yankee, the Southerner never uses one word when ten or twenty will do)...This is a different place. Our way of thinking is different, as are our ways of seeing, laughing, singing, eating, meeting and parting. Nothing about us is quite the same as in the country to the north and west. What we carry in our memories is different too, and that may explain everything else." --Charles Kuralt in "Southerners: Portrait of a People"". More about Beth:"" But like a whim of Scarlett's, they turned suddenly and went inside, shutting me out with a bolt of a latch. And I was left only to pick up an abandoned handkerchief and savor the perfumed shadows of these women... these southern women. I have been an instructor and professional artist for thirty years. Oral cancer survior for almost five years now. No jaw, half a tongue. My family tells me I look homemade, with all the scars, they call me Patches. I have the sense of humor of a twelve year old boy, a good fart makes me weak with laughter, I snort when I laugh and more titanium and hardware in my body than a Transformer. Having been vistied by the cancer fairey has been a blessing in my life. I have had so many wonderful experiences and have found so many of you that are part of my tribe. I have been enriched in spirit like I never knew was possible. I am surrounded with love, generosity and kindess everywhere I go. Oh, and I'm thinking I want a fainting goat, but I'll save that story for another day. As a side note, anyone else wake up in recovery with an overwhelming desire to buy handbags? Never gave them much thougth before, but now I'm obsessed. Freaky tikki huh. High highs, low lows and most of the time quite grateful to be alive, at peace with my cards and searc...Expand for more
hing for the part the new me is to play in all this. I'm grieving the loss os the old Beth and learning all about this new person I've become. Bone graft surgery in December 08, hip bone wired to titaium in my jaw. Crossing all ten fingers that this takes, will be June before we know for sure, but all looks good. NEXT, a bit more grafting and then.....dudhhhaaaaa......dental implants. Teeth, a jaw, lipstick, I really miss lip stick, and perhaps real food. Ahhh, what should be my "death row" meal in reverse? I change it everyday, but I'm thinking hot dogs and whiskey. A woman without a jaw and teeth is a wicked scarey sight indeed. I'm learning to enjoy this side road of my journey. As the Dead said, "What a long, strange, trip it's been". New facial surgery come up for me this fall and winter. Gotta man up and 'face' it once again. • Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. _Dorothy Parker I play with fire. My Grandparents owned an apple farm in the mountains of North Carolina. The farmhouse was a two hundred year old, former Stage Coach Inn. Heated solely by multiple fireplaces set high on large hearths inset with ancient arrowheads found on the home site. My happy place was bundled into one of my Grandmother’s quilts, warming myself in front of the fire and being drawn deep into the flames, transfixed and fascinated by the fire. Fire so alive and powerful enough to give life and take life. In those flames I saw beautiful moving pictures that never left my mind. Vibrations from two hundred years of living, loving, dying and trying bounced and twirled down the halls and pulled your hair, tickled your ear when it whispered your name and then ran away into a dark corner. Perfect fodder for the natural storytellers that are my Scotch Irish family. So this little girls head was fair to busting with fantastic images playing tag with the haunting stories, creating a passion for harnessing fire and making it mine. Early 70s, Underground Atlanta, sidewalk glass blower. Body slammed this hippie chick straight out of her fringed moccasins . I had found my tribe. Today, I own a glass studio. I had mouth cancer, I lived, and I still play with fire. The burning, turning, spinning into shapes makes me happy, stands the hair up on the back of my neck. I’m alive. It heals me. I paint in 3 D with 2000 degree molten glass. Now I create Talismans. Humans find peace and solace in objects they view as significant. I like to believe that my work is imbued with good intent and energy that gives comfort, peace and joy, and a soulful tranquility to the wearer. Everyone see’s something different in my work, a face, a flower, and an echo of a memory you just can not quite grasp. Colors become more intense, magical as they collaborate with spirit and environment, fire and nature. Trapping forever a moment in time.".
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