The Resolute Woman

Category: beauty

  • Blame it on Donald Trump

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    We try to avoid politics in our blog posts. So, this is all I am going to say. I was not happy when Donald Trump was inaugurated. I was so upset that I started eating chocolate and everything in sight—which was a bad thing to do since I hadn’t lost the five pounds that I…

  • Harvest song

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    Let’s all remember to take time to enjoy the beauty of the season—the beauty that Elizabeth Rooney describes in her poem “Harvest Song.” Sing apples and peaches and pears! Sing orange and scarlet and yellow! Sing green turned to glory To tell us the story That autumn is merry and mellow! We found this poem…

  • The second spring

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    Now, when I take an early morning walk with my neighbor Gaynelle and our two dogs, the air is crisper, cooler, perfect for walking. By the time we return, the sun is up and it’s warm, but not hot. It’s autumn again, and the leaves are starting to turn. It’s an amazing time of the…

  • Disguises and prettiness

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    On her journey across Australia with four camels and a dog, Robyn Davidson enjoyed freedom from “the perverted crippling insanity” of “social graces and female modesty.” Davidson wrote in her book Tracks, “I probably looked like a senile old derelict, in fact, with my over-large sandals, filthy baggy trousers, my torn shirt, my calloused hands…

  • Clothes are armor

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    Miranda, who is 27 and divorced, is taking classes and looking for a job. She spends money on expensive clothes because she has “come to understand that clothes are armor,” writes Emily St. John Mandel in her book Station Eleven. And how are clothes used as armor? I asked myself that question when I read…

  • Faith and reason

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    Awe is “the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that you don’t immediately understand,” says Dacher Keltner. Dr. Keltner, who says that his favorite emotions are compassion and awe, shared that definition at a May 31, 2016, Arts & Letters Live presentation in Dallas. He also quoted Emerson: “In the woods, we…

  • An epidemic of feeling bad

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    “There’s an epidemic in our country of girls and women feeling bad about themselves based on what 0.5 percent of the human race looks like,” says Melissa McCarthy, the actress. According to the March 28, 2016, issue of Time magazine, McCarthy is arguing for more inclusive beauty standards. Thank you, Melissa McCarthy. I’m reminding myself…

  • Lady Bird’s beautification team

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    When Lady Bird Johnson launched her beautification campaign in 1965, people hadn’t yet realized the importance of conservation and protecting the environment. To educate the country, Lady Bird sent out Senate and cabinet wives and other women friends to give speeches throughout the country. “When Jane Freeman, wife of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, was introduced…

  • A garden without flowers

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    Our friends Mark and Eva, who now live in Washington state, came to visit, and we ate hamburgers cooked outside on the grill and Greek potato salad that I made with a new recipe. Then, our friends Ken and Gail came over, and the six of us shared conversation and chocolate cake. The next day,…

  • A woman’s clothes

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    El habito no hace la monja. Or, in English, the habit does not make the nun. We like the Spanish version much better than the English version: Clothes do not make the man. We found this bit of wisdom in a delightful book by Charles Aranda called Dichos—Proverbs and Sayings from the Spanish.