I love "The Golden Girls." There, I said it.

Seriously. That show holds a special place in my heart.

And the passing of Estelle Getty, the hard-nosed Sophia on the Golden Girls, always made me wish for a crotchety, old, Italian grandmother figure in my life.

So today, when you look at the sky and you spot that golden ray of light that appears to be traveling up into the clouds instead of down onto the earth, know that it's Estelle Getty ascending to her pillowy retirement castle in the sky.