Enjoy your beauty now

You are BEAUTIFUL.

Don’t argue with me. 

Don’t say “No I’m not because……….”

“I’m too old”

“I’m too fat”

“I’m a mess today”

“I haven’t slept”

“I haven’t had a date in a year”

“I don’t have the life I want”

Don’t argue with me. 

My mom died in 2020. She was 76 and didn’t have an easy life. I sat with her in hospice for over a week. Her skin was wrinkled. Soft with experience. Her eyes were softened. Unfocused. I kissed her silky, sunken cheek. She was beautiful. 

Before I left New York, I spent some time volunteering in a NICU, holding premature babies. They did not have an easy start to life. Their skin was wrinkled. Their eyes were soft and unfocused. They were beautiful too. 

As I get older I am more equipped to appreciate the beauty in so called imperfections 

When I was 30, I wished I was 25. When I turned 40, I wanted to cling to 36. Now that I am 51, there are days I wish I could have stayed 43. I watch my face sink and shrink and show wear and tear. There is no going back to 25 or even 36. Or even 43. There is only forward. 

The most beautiful people I know are the ones who are the most home in their bodies, accepting and honoring themselves as they bud, blossom and even wilt. 

Beauty resides in our souls. It evolves and changes over time. It changes as we settle into ourselves. As we come home to our bodies. 

On the days I‘m terrified of wilting, I try to remind myself: This is me today. 

My 51 year old face carries my life in its cracks and wrinkles. 

Maybe someday, someone will kiss my soft slightly sunken cheek just as someone once stroked my plump baby one. 

We bud. We bloom. We fade. 

Stay in your ‘beautiful right now’ moment.

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Love, 
Kate

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