Love is stronger than both fear and hope - if you can love the natural beauty around you, the amazing gifts and skills we have, the fact that you are alive to experience life, each moment that you have, and love yourself and those around you just as they are, then there is no need to be owned by fear, or even hope, you just live the best you can, being the truth of that love that you are being, representing the stream of consciousness experiencing itself, always knowing that you will someday return to it again, and flow as part of it infinitely on.
[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don__ exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, __etouching artists_ conspire to __elp_ beautiful women look more beautiful, ie less than their age...By now readers have no idea what a real woman__ 60 year old face looks like in print because it__ made to look 45. Worse, 60 year old readers look in the mirror and think they are too old, because they__e comparing themselves to some retouched face smiling back at them from a magazine.
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[Women's magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don__ exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, __etouching artists_ conspire to __elp_ beautiful women look more beautiful, ie less than their age...By now readers have no idea what a real woman__ 60 year old face looks like in print because it__ made to look 45. Worse, 60 year old readers look in the mirror and think they are too old, because they__e comparing themselves to some retouched face smiling back at them from a magazine.
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