Shining Like A Moonbeam
If I’m a betting man, you have a patient, a friend or someone you care about who maybe sees themselves as less, or feels at times invisible or stereotyped—whose self-image is teetering on a shaky playground see-saw … so if I’m right, share this … it’s a clip from a song from an underappreciated musical about a teenage girl injured as a kid when the blade of an axe flew off and hit her face, leaving a disfiguring scar. That girl set out like so many of us do—hoping others would see her for who she is inside, not out. “I could shine like a moonbeam…all I need is someone to wonder…to ask how to meet me.” Sung here by my teenage daughter Sophie in Boston back in August, this poignant song has the ability to lift us, to give hope. It is from the musical Violet, a story that captured how physical appearance can greatly affect not just how we see ourselves but our behavior around others.