Cultivate the kind of beauty that can't be wiped off with a Kleenex.
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Filed under: “If you have to ask the question,
you wouldn’t understand the answer”.
“Why do you have tape on your toes?” Her nasal, whining voice cut through the blank slate of my mind’s remains.
“I like to decorate them on Fridays. It makes me feel ‘girl-y’.” My response was intended to be the end of the conversation, but no. She had to go there.
“Maybe if you wore makeup, you’d look more like a girl. Sometimes I can’t tell, what with your “haircut” and all.”
The tape on my toes is a temporary replacement for missing skin on the bottom of my feet. Yesterday I biked to the dojang to spar multiple partners, biked home at 9:00 PM and got up again at 4:00 AM for a tactical fitness regimen (aka boot camp). Tonight, after work and after wrangling the kids home from camp, I’ll be running midfield at soccer for two forty-five minute halves. Yeah, I’m missing some skin and my hair looks like I washed it in the bathroom sink at work (I did) in lieu of a shower.
Sometimes, I wear makeup.
Mostly, I train. Work. Run. Climb. Bike. Spar. Lift. Sweat. Hydrate. Rinse. Repeat.
There aren’t enough hours in the day for me to paint on a face that reflects what I’m building from the inside out, from the ground up.
Sea Witch, February 2012
(Photo courtesy of Jeff Fryberger)
5 comments:
Whatever it takes, and I believe you've got what it takes. Go, girl. You're beautiful.
god bless those people..they need it...haha....i hear you...and def whatever it takes...what i am building from the inside out...i like that...
You said it! Good for you. The only make-up the living require is a drop or two of sunscreen.
Let's hear it for the fine art of breathing! Life is good.
You don't need makeup because your natural beauty shines through.
Smiles all the way around!!!
I don't wear makeup (EVER), and beginning in three weeks, I have to do sponge baths if (no, scratch that... WHEN) I ride to work. Sponge baths don't really cut the mustard when your hair, ears, mouth, clothes and skin are full of gnats!!! But I have to keep the monthly 60-mile day streak alive.
I also succumbed to the short hair, thanks to the wrist, but it sure made clean-up easier not having to wrestle with the tangled masses!
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