TODAY'S HERO
...is a young woman named Sara Brooks.  No, she doesn't have Moebius Syndrome.  But due to a bout with cancer when she was a toddler, along with the radiation used to cure her, her face was permanently affected; she lost an eye; and she has had other physical issues as well, along with being teased by others when she was younger.  We can relate to that.  Yet all agree:  Sara is beautiful, inside and out.  She wants to be a model.  And she already is, in more ways than one:  she models the right attitudes, can-do spirit, and optimism, that we all need.  Hear her voice, along with some of her story:
"Sara Brooks faces the camera head-on, knowing there's no way to hide the scars left by cancer.

She aspires to be a model, but there's more to her goal than appearing on a magazine cover. She wants to show cancer survivors that anything is possible.   "Everyone is beautiful in their own way," said Brooks, 28, of Cleburne. "I'm living proof of that."....For Brooks, the effects of treatment made it difficult to attend school with kids who made fun of her appearance. Although she learned to laugh it off -- even using her glass eye as a Halloween prop -- she still felt isolated. It was only at a camp for childhood cancer survivors that she felt accepted by others.   Amanda Comstock met Brooks at camp, and said she was a determined person even back then.   "When she puts her mind to something, she does it," said Cornstock, 27. "She is beautiful inside and out to me."...Brooks said cancer indeed gave her a purpose.   When she started modeling, she said she felt ugly in front of the camera. But then she had a change in attitude and stopped hiding so others would see that they could face cancer too.   "I decided to use my face to my advantage, and make it art," she said."
 
Amen!  Read the whole story...
 
WHAT DAY IS IT?
And by the way, given that today is Tuesday, after all, I found the following amusing:
"If you thought Mondays were bad – it turns out Tuesdays are even worse, the Daily Telegraph reported.

A study by the London School of Economics monitored the mood swings of more than 22,000 people using an iPhone application called “Mappiness.”  Over a two-month period, an alert was sent to the study volunteers twice a day asking them how they felt, who they were with, what they were doing and whether they were at home. And the results showed that people felt at their lowest on Tuesdays.  "It seems plausible that on Monday, the weekend has not quite worn off,” study autho, George MacKerron, said. “By Tuesday, [people] are well into the working week and the following weekend is not in sight.”

Hopefully you're avoiding the Tuesday blahs...

"Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and
ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing,
great things are possible to you."  -Grenville Kleiser