Most of this list is spot on but I have to call blarney on this one. Taking my mom as an example, she was creative, generous, a great mentor to young women, a friend who had her friend's back in the most difficult of situations, and a real mess. She could trash her kitchen making a PB&J, her car smelled like the peat moss and manure she hauled to her community garden plot...she never failed to share her fresh raspberries with her neighbors;)