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Thursday
Aug132009

« love thursday: beauty, redux »

Photographed with Nikon D300, 60mm macro lens, and Kodak Duaflex.

Wow. 

Thanks to all of you who shared the descriptions of the most beautiful people you've come across in yesterday's comments.  You confirmed what I've always suspected:  the people we find most beautiful are rarely (although, sometimes) categorized in the physical descriptions of beauty that society dictates; more often than not, their beauty is defined by something more ... or sometimes, their beauty is indefinable. 

It kind of makes you think, though, doesn't it?  Perhaps when we think in terms of our own beauty, we should broaden that definition to the one we use for other people.  Perhaps instead of focusing on whether or not we have the perfect nose, or perfect waistline, or perfect pectorals, or even perfect feet, perhaps it makes more sense to spend the time to discover that the source of our beauty is something else. 

Maybe even something indefinable.

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Happy Love Thursday, everyone.  Please leave your stories or your links to images or words of love in the comments, below.

And my love-filled wish for you is that, at some point today, you realize how beautiful you are.

 

Song:  Somebody loved by The Weepies

Posted on DateThursday, August 13, 2009 at 12:00AM Comment23 Comments

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    Response: Love Thursday #11 Blowing Bubbles
    by LoLa at LoLaSuzanne on August 13, 2009
    Blowing bubbles is hard work...
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    Response: Love echoes
    at Woulda Coulda Shoulda on August 13, 2009
    Despite our continued efforts, Super remains at large. He continues to lounge around the neighborhood, and apparently slept on our lawn last night, though he was gone when I went out this morning around 6:00.He is taunting us.The combination of the k...
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    Response: Love Thursday: A boy and his dog
    by Grace at What If No One's Watching? on August 13, 2009
    I couldn't not share these pictures for Love Thursday. Mark and Ata--peas in a pod

Reader Comments (23)

Here's a love story I'd like to share ....

http://giftsofthejourney.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/with-grace-and-heart/

August 13, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterElizabeth Harper

This young girl and her two brothers show up everyday at the dog park to provide necessary exercise to their grandfather's seeing-eye-dog. A very special love-story...indeed:
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=883

August 13, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDaily Practice

Happy Love Thursday - we're welcoming our 90 year old mother to the world wide web today - she got her very first laptop yesterday!

http://www.soeursdujour.com/2009/08/family-love-thursday.html

August 13, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkath

Family, it's what love is all about. Happy Love Thursday everyone!

http://www.moogiesworld.com/archives/2009/08/tight.php

August 13, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMoogie

Happy Love Thursday, everyone! It's my birthday today - on Love Thursday, can you believe it? - and so today I wrote about all the love I have for those around me...and also for that nummy cake that's waiting for me at home. :-) And that's the connection, isn't it? Our beauty comes from happiness...the glow within. And, at least for today, I am perfectly happy!

http://cantgetthere.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/love-knows-what-it-wants/

August 13, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKatie in MA

God! It's so hard to find beauty in yourself! But you're right. Each of are someones most beautiful person they know. Happy Love Thursday and here's my link.
http://www.elephantsoap.com/2009/08/13/love-thursday-finding-things-when-you-need-them-most/

August 13, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCindy

I find it easier to think of myself as beautiful if I think of myself as a creation; not a self creation but just like an abstraction admidst all the other creations.... if I can detach myself from myself I see the beauty as a gift from the universe; and know that "what is essential is invisible to the eye" (The Little Prince)....

August 13, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterlori

That's what makes this life so beautiful - knowing that so many different ways of seeing beauty exists and the hope to be able to experience them. I went for a bit of nostalgia today for my post:
http://stickingtothepoint.squarespace.com/blog/2009/8/13/love-thursday-nostalgia.html

August 13, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkristen

This Love Thursday, I'm celebrating 9 happy years of marriage with my beautiful husband. Happy LT, everyone!

http://morecheese.typepad.com/more_cheese/2009/08/9-years.html

August 13, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMarie
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