“It is, isn’t it?” She said it calmly and without apology. She’d worked her butt off to live in a home she loves. She earned it and she deserves it, and she would do a disservice to herself and the beauty she surrounds herself with if she shrugged it off and deflected the compliment. I’d been in Oprah’s presence, what, two seconds? And already I had a life lesson—that it’s okay for you to say, “I worked hard for what I have. I earned it and I am going to enjoy it, proudly.” It only affirmed what I was learning: There is something that happens when you are grateful. You continue to receive
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