Wednesday, May 6, 2009

my daughter's post


This is what my daughter wrote last week... I am proud of her.

ranting & raving

there was a headline in the "news" today that said, "kirstie alley vows to get her bikini body back!".

kirstie alley is 58. why should a woman who is 58 - or 28 or 18 for that matter! - need a "bikini body"? surely as women we have more to offer the world than that? surely our lives matter more, mean more, have more fulfillment in them than that?

when i am 58, i want to have a life that is so full and joyous that it wouldn't even occur to me that swimsuit season is coming. i want friends & grandchildren & curtis & my brothers with their families; i want meaningful work & thoughtful conversations & new ideas; i want to be so much more than the sum of my physical parts!

this made me sad today. for kirstie, and for all the women & girls who can't seem to look beyond the size of their jeans to see where & why they matter. frankly, it's all too often me, too. india arie, in one of her songs, sings, "i am not my hair/i am not this skin/i am the soul that lives within".

exactly.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your daughter is a wise woman.

Leslie

Corrie said...

Thank you for this, Marilyn. I need to hear this after having 2 babies in 2 years and struggling a little bit to lose the weight!

Lee Ann said...

Amen!

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