  My camera is broken, and I don't have a camera phone, so there was no way to document what happened other than here.
It was so beautiful. My little Ellie was playing sweetly on the big floor throw pillow next to the couch where I sat with my computer and channel flipped between Ellen and Sharon. What a morning for daytime TV! First, on Ellen, Melissa Ethridge sang. I've always loved her, and she just keeps getting better. When she plays her guitar and sings so hard, she really rocks! Ellie took notice, she loves music, and I've documented here before her penchant for singing along with the TV rockstars, but she didn't really stop playing.
Then, I switched over to Sharon, where Cyndi Lauper sang her interpretation of At Last. Oh my God, the lungs that woman has! And her voice is still true, probably truer, as ever. Ellie dropped the toys and watched with her mouth open. She didn't even sing with the TV like she usually does, she just gaped in admiration. And what's not to love?
These two women both are fantastic heroes for girls and women alike. I think Ellie's musical taste is already exquisite. I rewound the song so Ellie could lavish in her conversion. I know how she feels! Cyndi affected me just as deeply when I was young. There's a spot in a girl's heart that only a freely expressive woman with a spunky personality can reach, and if that spot gets reached, she will never be the same. I was Cyndi Lauper for Halloween in the forth grade. I don't think I ever took the costume off!
The forth grade was a pretty important time for me. That was also the year I wrote my first short story and decided I wanted to be a writer for the rest of my life. And today that buck was passed. I was there for the moment, I saw it in her eyes. Our Ellie is a changed woman, watch out world! She's a Cyndi Lauper fan, now! 
