OK, here’s a question to determine just how vain you are: Would you rather be 25 but look 50, or be 50 but look 25? For my part, I would totally choose the latter which, I guess, makes me super vain. Also, if my outward physical appearance weren’t affected at all by the food I choose to eat, I […]
Category: Beauty
Bullying and Body Dysmorphia
By Amanda Tonight my daughter came into the family room and announced, “I just saw myself in the mirror and I look so cute!!” Her confidence (arrogance?) used to worry me, but I remember talking with my sister-in-law about it once and she advised me to let it be, “Life,” she said, “will wear her […]
Art, Church and the Beauty of God
Words and Art by Amanda I always tell people that the church never taught me how beautiful God is. Growing up, I sat at the table of a very strict God who rationed out food based upon my performance. His grace was dished out in careful moderation, so as not to be abused, but earned. […]
She
By Noelle Thinner Curvier Smart (Not too smart) Sexy (Not too sexy) Strong (Not too strong) Shinier Healthier Quiet Speak up Shhhhh. . . . The burden of humanity’s collective synchronized cry for perfection, that not one individual in the masses has attained, falls square on the pointed shoulder blades of she. She is […]
Objectification and the Lost Art of Women
(Words and Art by Amanda) When my son was about five, we were in an outdoor pottery store, one of those places that is a maze with thousands of items, plants, fountains, statues, forgotten treasures. I came around the corner and found him entranced, staring at a figurine of a primitive fertility goddess. It being more abstract […]
The Beauty of the Abnormal
I once had someone tell me that I just liked being “depressed.” Well, I suppose there’s a fine line between learning to live with something and learning to thrive in it. Also, there’s a certain amount of pride that wouldn’t allow me to admit it, because it was intended as defeat. In my mind, it […]