The Resolute Woman

Category: beauty

  • Applause for Lupita Nyong’o

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    Lupita Nyong’o was beautiful and black when she accepted an Oscar award recently for best supporting actress in “12 Years a Slave.” In her pale blue Prada gown, she was stunning—even though she did not fit into the long-blonde-hair-blue-eyes-anorexic-with-large-breasts stereotype that long has been glorified as the ideal in our culture. “When a woman with…

  • The best things in the world

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    Here’s a good quote, one I’ve encountered before, one worth remembering and repeating, from a card from my good friend Barbara. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be touched but are felt with the heart.” –Helen Keller

  • Savor the moment

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    “Would you stand here with me and savor the moment?” asks Jim Chee to his wife, Bernie, in Anne Hillerman’s new novel Spider Woman’s Daughter. Jim and Bernie, both Navajo Nation police officers, stand and look at the majestic New Mexico sky. “The Sandia Mountains rose like a rugged, blue monolith to the east, glowing…

  • The all-knowing, ruthless beauty god

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    I look into my mirror. What’s wrong with my hair? Are those new wrinkles? Have I gained weight? Who’s talking? The all-knowing, ruthless beauty god, says Cheryl Strayed. We all know that looks really don’t matter and that, actually, they do matter to most of us, explains Strayed in her book Tiny Beautiful Things—Advice on…

  • In praise of October

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    I ate corny dogs at the State Fair of Texas, the biggest and the best state fair, and recently I enjoyed a piece of my friend Susie’s apple pie. The air is crisper and cooler when I begin my morning walk, and I noticed yellow leaves under the trees in my front yard. “I’m so…

  • The miracles that surround us

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    I wrote recently about the beauty that surrounds us and how we often take it for granted. Of course, I am not the first one to write about ordinary beauty. With a little effort, I found these words from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I…

  • Pay attention to the beautiful

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    The organist at my church recently retired after playing the most beautiful music. For 45 years at the same church. I have listened to her for many Sundays since I joined this church more than 25 years ago. Sometimes I listened attentively, and sometimes I listened not quite as attentively. Often I took her beautiful…

  • A hummingbird moth?

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    My daughter, Mary Elizabeth, thought she saw a tiny hummingbird feeding on purple flowers. She followed it as it fluttered around Blue Spring near Eureka Springs, where we were vacationing recently, trying to take a photograph. She walked slowly and quietly as she pursued the tiny creature—until she saw a dark snake suddenly slide across…

  • A walk with nature

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    My family and I just returned from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where we stayed in a cabin on a hill in the Ozark Mountains. One morning, my daughter and I walked from our cabin to Blue Spring. It’s a round spring of very cold water that native American Indians believe has healing powers. Native Americans lived…

  • Do you sleep in makeup?

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    Charlotte Tilbury, 40, sleeps in her makeup, reports the July 26, 2013, issue of The Week, which reprinted this news from The Times in the United Kingdom. In fact, her husband of six years has never seen her without makeup. Tilbury, a makeup artist to the stars, takes her makeup off only behind a locked…