The Firm Hide of Bovidae
Apr. 19th, 2026 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
michaelboyI was tempted to write: I had hamburger for lunch, but since I never eat hamburger, that simply won’t do.
Ever notice how the deepest forms of beauty and attraction have little to do with a look of perfection?
Revlon Age Defying Makeup with Botafirm* certainly may beautify and accentuate, but the essence of beauty and sensuality may be as simple as the bare nape of the neck, a choice of words, the unique shape of a nose, an attitude, or even the crack in a voice. While a particular commercial perfume may indeed send a person to the clouds, it seems it is both the physical and emotional personality that keeps us there.
* I imagine the term Botafirm was created as an allusion to the nerve-deadening product Botox. I think it sounds much closer to ”Bota” - a winesack made from the skin of a goat.
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The Redbud is fading now as the Dogwood has its turn, just outside my window.
Alas, "Is there in Truth, No Beauty?" (with apologies and recognition to 15th century poet George Herbert and very much later Star Trek TOS.
Ever notice how the deepest forms of beauty and attraction have little to do with a look of perfection?
Revlon Age Defying Makeup with Botafirm* certainly may beautify and accentuate, but the essence of beauty and sensuality may be as simple as the bare nape of the neck, a choice of words, the unique shape of a nose, an attitude, or even the crack in a voice. While a particular commercial perfume may indeed send a person to the clouds, it seems it is both the physical and emotional personality that keeps us there.
* I imagine the term Botafirm was created as an allusion to the nerve-deadening product Botox. I think it sounds much closer to ”Bota” - a winesack made from the skin of a goat.
* * *
The Redbud is fading now as the Dogwood has its turn, just outside my window.
Alas, "Is there in Truth, No Beauty?" (with apologies and recognition to 15th century poet George Herbert and very much later Star Trek TOS.
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Date: 2026-04-20 03:38 pm (UTC)As I walked with my kids this morning, I took photos for my husband, profiting from instant technology to send them in situ so he could, in some small way, be there with us. And though the photos were nice, the *beauty* of the place was flattened in pixels. Sometimes they were "perfected"* by the camera doing its programmed thing, but never doing enough to convey the essence of what made it so magnifique..
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* in the sense of the programmers thinking things need to be "enhanced" to fit our Instagram world