Why I love Esquire
Borrowed from my absolute favorite magazine. If you know me you'll know why.
"It's possible, of course, that forty-seven is the best age for a woman because it's the best age for a man. A man has gotten over the habit of looking endlessly forward, at forty-seven, and he's not yet in the habit of looking endlessly behind; he doesn't even look around , at forty seven, and so he can finally see right in front of him, where stands a forty-seven year-old woman.
If he has known her a long time, he might be tempted to describe her in terms of what has survived from the girl he knew- the sting of emotion that starts, always , in her nose and restores, instantly, the freshness of her face and the color of her eyes; the shimmer of her skin, which is so white since she's forsworn the sun that it can light his way in a very dark room; the miracle of her smell, which is the breath of renewal, and so also can light way; the amazing erotic architecture of her back, with its archipelago of beauty marks unchanged from the moment he first beheld them, almost as if they'd gone untouched.
But that's giving her , and the wonder of her age, short shrift. Better to describe her in terms of what has flourished, in the woman she's become: the frankness, the sexiness, the humor, the urgency, the knowledge, the gusty play of throatiness and girlishness in her voice. Better still to state a simple fact: that she, at forty-seven, has a wondrous ass; that if you're an assman, there's no end to the ass of a forty-seven-year-old woman. You have settled on her ass; you can't keep your hands off her, or it; her forty-seven-year-old ass is where your forty-seven-year-old hands go, and stay.
And so that's it: You stay, and she stays with you. She is wondrous, at forty-seven, because she does not represent anything like the vain hope of wish fulfillment. No: At forty-seven, she is a wish, your wish, fulfilled."
Amen. How can you not love a magazine that produces such brilliance? Possibly I'm a tad biased,,forty-seven is oh so close ya know. Too close. But,,life is not bad and if I have that to look forward to,,,I can't complain.
Work,,I can complain about this right? Sucks. Big time. Unsafe sucks. Overwhelming sucks. ICU is a relief if you can even imagine that. Yeah,,that's me saying that. I'd rather be in ICU with the two vent patients that are trying so hard to NOT live than out on the floor with 8 or 9 patients in the same shape. 8 or 9 patients. Think about that. Twelve hours with 8 patients. Boggles my mind. Exhausts my brain. Wears my almost 47-year-old ass OUT.
Ok,,now on to fun stuff. I'm in absolute love with Snow Patrol. Where have they been? Where have I been? So very good. If you get a chance find em and listen.
This is my one day off this week so I'm gonna run make the most of it. Laundry, yard, house, errands,,,so much fun I can hardly stand it.
Oh yeah,, I think Maggie and Preston are Maggie and Preston again,,and my heart is happy. I love my Preston.
Listening to: Run by Snow Patrol
Reading: State regs on work place safety and Safe Harbor for nurses
"It's possible, of course, that forty-seven is the best age for a woman because it's the best age for a man. A man has gotten over the habit of looking endlessly forward, at forty-seven, and he's not yet in the habit of looking endlessly behind; he doesn't even look around , at forty seven, and so he can finally see right in front of him, where stands a forty-seven year-old woman.
If he has known her a long time, he might be tempted to describe her in terms of what has survived from the girl he knew- the sting of emotion that starts, always , in her nose and restores, instantly, the freshness of her face and the color of her eyes; the shimmer of her skin, which is so white since she's forsworn the sun that it can light his way in a very dark room; the miracle of her smell, which is the breath of renewal, and so also can light way; the amazing erotic architecture of her back, with its archipelago of beauty marks unchanged from the moment he first beheld them, almost as if they'd gone untouched.
But that's giving her , and the wonder of her age, short shrift. Better to describe her in terms of what has flourished, in the woman she's become: the frankness, the sexiness, the humor, the urgency, the knowledge, the gusty play of throatiness and girlishness in her voice. Better still to state a simple fact: that she, at forty-seven, has a wondrous ass; that if you're an assman, there's no end to the ass of a forty-seven-year-old woman. You have settled on her ass; you can't keep your hands off her, or it; her forty-seven-year-old ass is where your forty-seven-year-old hands go, and stay.
And so that's it: You stay, and she stays with you. She is wondrous, at forty-seven, because she does not represent anything like the vain hope of wish fulfillment. No: At forty-seven, she is a wish, your wish, fulfilled."
Amen. How can you not love a magazine that produces such brilliance? Possibly I'm a tad biased,,forty-seven is oh so close ya know. Too close. But,,life is not bad and if I have that to look forward to,,,I can't complain.
Work,,I can complain about this right? Sucks. Big time. Unsafe sucks. Overwhelming sucks. ICU is a relief if you can even imagine that. Yeah,,that's me saying that. I'd rather be in ICU with the two vent patients that are trying so hard to NOT live than out on the floor with 8 or 9 patients in the same shape. 8 or 9 patients. Think about that. Twelve hours with 8 patients. Boggles my mind. Exhausts my brain. Wears my almost 47-year-old ass OUT.
Ok,,now on to fun stuff. I'm in absolute love with Snow Patrol. Where have they been? Where have I been? So very good. If you get a chance find em and listen.
This is my one day off this week so I'm gonna run make the most of it. Laundry, yard, house, errands,,,so much fun I can hardly stand it.
Oh yeah,, I think Maggie and Preston are Maggie and Preston again,,and my heart is happy. I love my Preston.
Listening to: Run by Snow Patrol
Reading: State regs on work place safety and Safe Harbor for nurses
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