Category: beauty
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Everyone needs beauty
My friend Eva, who recently was laid off from American Airlines, is gaining strength and perspective hiking in the magnificent mountains of Washington state. She recently sent me this quote from John Muir. “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to…
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Happy shopping!
According to the August 6, 2012, issue of Time magazine, the average American woman owned nine outfits in 1930. Today we purchase more than 60 pieces of new clothing every year. I’m not a big shopper, and I don’t think I buy 60 new pieces of clothing every year. And, I’m not sure exactly what…
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Intellectual companionship
People wondered why the dashing Franklin Delano Roosevelt married Eleanor. “What lay behind the mutual attraction between the smooth, handsome youth and the old-maidish young woman?” asks Joseph Persico in his book Franklin & Lucy—President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherford and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life. Persico’s answer? “In Eleanor, he found a different sort…
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Cleopatra wasn’t Elizabeth Taylor
I recently finished reading the book Cleopatra—A Life by Stacy Schiff. I learned that Cleopatra probably spoke nine languages, including Hebrew and Troglodyte, an Ethiopian tongue that Herodotus said was “unlike that of any other people; it sounds like the screeching of bats.” I learned that she was well educated and that she benefited from…
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What do you stand for—style or substance?
A beautiful young woman described by the Dallas Morning News as “a sex-tape survivor turned reality star” visited Dallas to promote a “$29 goo that makes your kisser look bigger” at a major department store. According to the newspaper (Dallas Morning News, February 24, 2011), when she was asked about what she stands for, this…