You are beautiful!

Oh, that this website I have found, could be viewed by every Woman and Girl on Earth!

What an awesome concept! My deepest admiration goes out to the exemplary Ladies who have created it!

http://iambeautiful.com/

Their credo: "Our mission is simple: to create a world in which every woman and girl can proudly proclaim, "I Am Beautiful!"

"How do we redefine feminine beauty to make it more inclusive? How do we combat the damaging media messages and distorted cultural ideals about women and beauty? How do we show our daughters, sisters, friends, mothers and grandmothers the power in naming their own beauty?

Self-acceptance is the first step.
That is what the I Am Beautiful Project is all about: self-esteem through
self-discovery!"

And They even quote the delightful Audrey Hepburn, one of my most favorite people, who was and eternally will be beautiful in body, mind and soul:

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness;
for lovely eyes, seek out the good in people;
for beautiful hair, let a child run her fingers through it once a day."

Billboard blog post

The beautiful billboard looms above the traffic jam -- a lovely Lady wearing a strand of jewelry.

With due respect to the jewelry company who paid for the ad, far more wonderful in my eyes is the Woman who is wearing their product - whoever She is, wherever She lives.

Jewelry is but glossy stones. Its beauty is limited. She has life. She thinks, walks, speaks and Her beauty is limitless.

True, time will change Her living loveliness, draw lines upon that complexion and at the edges of those pretty eyes, while that jewelry might glimmer unchanged a thousand years from now.

But it is also possible, in that distant day that those stones could lie lost in a drawer or a garbage dump, while Her beauty lives on in words well written; in some aspect of science that Her mind spurred forward; or in the eyes of a great grandchild.

Stones are helpless in the matter of destiny -- the Hope diamond could not stop the hands that trimmed it from its original magnificence -- but She, She lives and She has power to change the world.

Audrey Hepburn's dress sold for nearly $500,000, not because of the cut of the cloth or the fabric from which it was made, but because of the legend who once wore it.

Remembering Audrey

You know, all this Paris Hilton-Nicole Smith-Lindsey Lohan talk in the media these days has reminded me of one of my favorite people in the world -- someone absolutely unlike any of those so-called celebrities -- the late Audrey Hepburn.

Audrey's birthday would have been on May 4, and shame on me for failing to note it here.

She was talented, classy and worth her every pretty ounce in pure gold.

She had an actual life-story worth telling -- a brave part in the fight against the Nazis. She eschewed diva-dom. She remained humble and did actual humanitarian work in the world. She got along with people and was a good mother to her children.

Today's phony celebrities are just weeds to her eternal bloom.