Since I can’t shed my skin, my place or my time,  - Since I can’t be:

Abigail Adams or King David’s Abigail or Helen Keller’s Annie  Sullivan

Tanya Blessing or Bobi Muldrow's good sweet humor,

Caleb’s daughter, Acsah, who wisely asked for the upper and lower springs

Deborah the Judge and Army Captain

Esme Schlatter or Ellen Korthuis,  Emily Dickinson or Earhart

First woman preacher I ever heard on a Sunday in a Baptist Church

Grandma Moses who sold her first painting at 78 or Golda Meir

Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad

Iris Antonucci

Junio, the named female apostle or my hero, Joan of Arc

Kathy Spackman

Linda Collins or Lydia, both church leaders and pastors

Mary, the mother of Jesus,  whose courage was not lacking and whose song was not sappy

Nellie Bly, who faked insanity so that she could research and report the conditions of asylems

Oakley, the sharpshooter

Pocahontas, the visionary peacemaker

Queen Esther or Queen Latifa, the theatrical queens who shared national power

Rosa Parks, who dared to share the front of the bus with do-nothing whites

Sheerah, the first female civil engineer, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon as well as Uzzen Sheerah

Tuck’s Patti,  or Tracy Chapman, two vocalists, so different, yet I adore them

Unknown woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair and did not waste her treasure on him, the one who sought for the coin until she found it and the Canaanite woman who knew her faith had nothing to do with her worth, but everything to do with the Lord’s sufficiency,

Wheeler, April  or Ward, Ann

The Noble woman who asked her husband if she could build an upper room for the man of God to stay with them,

Yo’Yo’s, my book club buddies, each of whom I greatly admire and together, the most incredible group of women living,

Zelophehad's daughters--Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah who petitioned Moses for their land and won,....then,

I guess I’ll just step up to the plate and be my whole best self.