Susan PhillipsNative Texans on Facebook
October 3 at 9:47 AM ·
Don't you just Love Texas values and their ripple effect?
Texas Humor
September 9 at 12:00 AM ·
The second we are freed from the triple digits, my fall decorations are freed from the attic
Cause we all could use a laugh these days. Who doesn’t love Lucy!
I once used pearsarebetter for my apple password for this very reason
“How many years of beauty do I have left? she asks me.
How many more do you want?
Here. Here is 34. Here is 50.
When you are 80 years old
and your beauty rises in ways
your cells cannot even imagine now
and your wild bones grow luminous and
ripe, having carried the weight
of a passionate life.
When your hair is aflame
with winter and you have decades of learning and leaving and loving
sewn into the corners of your eyes
and your children come home
to find their own history
in your face.
When you know what it feels like to fail ferociously and have gained the
capacity to rise and rise and rise again.
When you can make your tea
on a quiet and ridiculously lonely afternoon and still have a song in your heart. Queen owl wings beating beneath the cotton of your sweater.
Because your beauty began there
beneath the sweater and the skin,
remember?
This is when I will take you
into my arms and coo
YOU BRAVE AND GLORIOUS THING
you’ve come so far.
I see you.
Your beauty is breathtaking."
~ Jeannette Encinias
