Giggling in the Rain May 24, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL are giggles. The giggles of nerves, silliness, or warm emotion come unexpected and often tickle us when we most need it. (Photo courtesy of Amanda)

Can You Dance for a Dolla if I Make You Holla? May 20, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is having the courage to beg and the audacity to make light of your predicament. You got screwed, no fault of your own, and now you’re suffering. But first you go on, get down, have a little fun, mock those before you, and get a move on. It’s all good. Don’t let the [...]

We Torture, We Slaughter, We Massacre, But We Never Engage in the Act of Being Gay May 19, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is making a last stand. Death awaits, but no. Life flash signal prompt beeps. You draft me, you train me, you love me, love me lots, I’m your poster boy, have me kill, who? Brown people, man do I have to? We have to preserve the American way. Yes sir! So fire, stab, [...]

Pillow Read May 18, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is any book that takes us on a journey into a world of inconceivable characters, a diversion of settings, and ideas of tremendous power and poignancy, allowing for our own imagination to stretch into a blissful oblivion that upon return we are transformed into something better. Something more human, something to offer. (photo [...]

Yes, We Look Hard in the Mirror Before We Lob Grenades in Strangers’ Homes May 18, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is the world you need to live in, not the world you think you live in. Consider your ridiculous reptilian face. Who could love this face? Or find it even remotely attractive? It’s hideous. You can’t love it, so why are you wasting your time nurturing it? Stop trying to front, it ain’t [...]

Oh Baby What a Gorgeous Crazy Sexy Funny Ass You Are May 17, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is making an ass out of yourself all the while encouraging people to look. Why not? Let them laugh, snicker, twitter at you, let them share in your craziness, let them point the finger: what a bloody fool! Your internal reply is then so? So what if my behavior horrifies you? If done [...]

You Took it All, I Have No More to Give May 16, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is justified anger at mother nature. Yet mother nature can’t be fought so you cry, curse, scream, cry some more. And no one listens, no one cares, no one’s there. A sudden realizations falls over you: you’re not dead like everyone else. Such dire circumstances offer hope. You embrace Him with vigor and [...]

Easy With That Spoon…You Might Actually Eat Something You Like May 15, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is taste and its pleasurable and/or unpleasurable jolt of sensation the very second it pets our tongue. The question of it is anything. Anything or any thing accounts for a distinct experience in taste. And equally beautiful, no one nowhere knows a darn thing about what any one anywhere likes. No single individual [...]

Excuse Me, Can You Show Me the Way to the Mall? May 13, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is direction or lack of. You’re lost, you haven’t a clue on how to get to that place you must be at and being alone you have no choice but to rely on strangers. Strangers. Weird, scary, intrusive. Or kind. The kindness of strangers. Yes, these strangers exist and they guide you along [...]

A Benign Tumor if We’re Lucky May 12, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is a mind’s need for serenity amidst a world of piquancy. A world we create that insists we zoom around from here to there, there to here, in circles or repeated crisscrossing with a simple-minded focus on monetary indulgence, decorative accomplishment, or artificial pleasure. It’s utter chaos and we do little to lessen [...]

Severe Sorrow May 10, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is empathy. A faraway man grips his child’s arm for the very last time. The child cannot feel his father; the child is dead. The faraway man agonizes, asking why could this happen, wondering what more could he have done, contemplating where he will go from here, and how will each day even [...]

There’s Always One That Will Piss on Your Parade May 10, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is the seeming presence of a higher power and its uncanny immediacy with nature. Or perhaps, it’s human devotion attracting a following from all of God’s species. Come what may, this beautiful connection between nature’s attraction and human devotion isn’t as prevalent as one would think. When’s the last time you stood in [...]

Grass is Blonde, Hair is Long, Fire is Gone, Something’s Wrong May 10, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is our whimsical self we often ignore and rarely explore. Possibly we’re afraid of what others might think of us or perhaps our cynical selves (a byproduct of our catastrophic world) sway us from expressing an essential ingredient of our personality. In a land of horrifying hate, mass murders, random rapes, and wasteful [...]

Sometimes a Happy Meal isn’t Always on the Menu May 9, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is reflection. Digging deep within and asking, “Are you really happy in the place you’re in?” Then what are you doing to get out of that place and into something new. It’s gonna hurt, regardless. That’s just how it is. But somehow, someway you’ll endure and carry on. Don’t confide in anyone, just [...]

You Could’ve Told Me on the First Date There Were 3 of You May 9, 2009

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL is realizing you’re a multitude of contradictions arising out of your multiple personalities and somehow, miraculously, you can look at that and say, yeah that’s me, that’s me, and that’s me and be totally okay with it when nobody else is. (photo courtesy of rebekka at flickr)