tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post3704680462206383867..comments2023-10-09T07:04:49.539-07:00Comments on Writing: franzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-19299233379358429962013-01-14T17:29:49.508-08:002013-01-14T17:29:49.508-08:00YES.YES.franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-12081700549773931372013-01-14T03:09:15.535-08:002013-01-14T03:09:15.535-08:00Outer looks are just packaging for the spirit with...Outer looks are just packaging for the spirit within. Everyone knows that a plain box can hold treasure just as much as a fancy glittery box. <br />Look inside, people.<br />Look to the elderly, with their peaceful, lived in faces and bodies. There is beauty, just as much, or even more, than the most striking "super" model (who quite possibly has flawed skin under all that "paint"), or fresh faced youngster. <br />Look to happy laughing children playing without a thought as to how they look, dancing, splashing, building mud houses. They are all beautiful in their happiness and concentration. <br />Life itself is a beautiful thing, don't waste it looking for perfection. Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-56011963262210670272013-01-11T16:08:33.399-08:002013-01-11T16:08:33.399-08:00I'm not sure exactly how that's different,...I'm not sure exactly how that's different, but I feel that it is. <br /><br />I suppose the kind of 'beauty' you were talking about is the kind that one always desires, but never sees in themselves. When your idea of beauty just springs from the pain you feel at its supposed absence, that's not beauty. <br /><br />I think the beauty in the photograph, and that you recognise, is just the simple pleasure of a little family at a beach, existing in their own world, their own place and feeling pleasure. That IS beautiful. It's beautiful, because on seeing the photograph, you don't seek imperfection, you just feel happy. Not like with the thousands of perfect images in the media, which do challenge you to seek the imperfect and reward you for not finding it in the Photoshopped, starved perfection we're all accustomed to.franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-29900623750576801982013-01-11T16:01:26.110-08:002013-01-11T16:01:26.110-08:00Thanks, Pandora!Thanks, Pandora!franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-55620093685166503212013-01-10T22:12:50.823-08:002013-01-10T22:12:50.823-08:00Franzy, thank you. How ironic that I mentioned th...Franzy, thank you. How ironic that I mentioned the beauty of your son, magnificent Mele and the joy they give you in your previous blog post. Oh and maybe it's time for me to say that you've got a fair old truckload of beauty yourself. ~sniffle!<br /><br />Anytime you're over in the GMT+1 time zone, the spare room is yours for you three to do what you will. Dog pats, coffee and chocolate included.MedicatedMoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08609190990579743429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-2194115758885329232013-01-10T21:39:32.578-08:002013-01-10T21:39:32.578-08:00Here here!Here here!Pandora Behrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17582255671962095503noreply@blogger.com