Wednesday, January 23, 2008

! fortune cookie ~ taste~ beauty


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The New Year is 3 weeks old... I hope you all taste a bit of the new fortune it brings. 

My 8 year old neice Ashley just called to ask donations for St. Jude's Children's Hospital--something doing at school.  She couldn't stop giggling.  Nervous, she tried to speak and only giggles came out... no words. I can not get her good giggle sounds out of my head.  Its so awesome. 

Two summers back  saw on her leg "my" exact beauty mark.  Same place on the upper thigh.  My mother's mother had the same and noticed mine.  It surprised Ashley to see the genetic code had fingerprinted us.  Other women on that genetic line behind us proabably had this mark too.  I wonder who they were; if they were smart, kind, sensitive, inwardly wild.  There will be girls born in the future bearing this same dark circle on their left leg.  But who?  We should document it in a special box to pass forward.  Ashley's mark is lighter than mine, but otherwise, its weird to see something that was "mine"(private) and inscribed at birth on my skin on someone else's leg.  It made me realize that the bodies we're born with are so "ours" ... and yet inherited.  We grow within them, and yes, are attached to their special marks. 
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These people wear the same Beauty mark and even toast to its maker. 
A man with the will to mark many faces Russell higgs

I like the paper cut video with this poem...
Kudzu is an imported vine that will choke over a whole forest in the South.

 
Posted by Mansuetude at 22:36:11 | Permanent Link | Comments (4) |
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1 - and so weird to have a mole removed that has been part of you since birth, and then acquiring scars along the way that become a visual history. scars are my own personal braille. (Comment this)

Written by: disa at 2008/01/24 - 21:56:31
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2 - ohh we all have some, if we play hard. I surely do. Was yours on your leg, maybe we are related... (Comment this)

Written by: Mansuetude at 2008/01/24 - 23:18:43
3 - I also have this birth mark in my left leg, as my father and my uncle.

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Written by: Mauro at 2008/01/25 - 17:17:08
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4 - perhaps we are related--is it smaller than a dime, just about the size of a pencil erasor?

We could add you to the box!

Also got a private note about this "mark" from a wonderful Italian Poet who shares two same moles his father gave unto him! He wrote a wonderful,sensitive poem about hands to go with it, I loved reading it. I thank him. (Comment this)

Written by: Mansuetude at 2008/01/25 - 17:28:24
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