If Glazing Is Good Enough for Doughnuts, It’s Good Enough for Me…and Outstanding for Authors!
My 14-year-old has had enough of my glazing.
To hear him tell it, my glazing it out of control. I glaze him. I glaze my husband. I glaze books. I glaze movies. I glaze my friends. I glaze our neighbors. And I definitely glaze Chicago and my Chicago ancestry.
If you don’t know, this is a kid term for what we used to call, ahem, brown nosing. Ass kissing. Currying favor through excessive, undeserved flattery.
“Stop glazing authors!” he commanded, rolling his eyes when I gushed about a client’s project at dinner. “You get paid to glaze.” Sneer.
Yes. I. Do.
Except I run his glaze through my own translation filter.
Glazing is enthusiasm, expansive appreciation, validation, cheerleading, advocacy, a vision for all the possibilities, a solid belief in others and their potential and their dreams and their projects.
It’s true and it’s been with me forever though it took me well into my thirties to realize it, understand it, and embrace it as something valuable I have to offer others. It’s permission plus. Permission to do the thing you really want to do, but with excitement and support.
