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It's not really a lecture on living some sort of "sackcloth and ashes" existence. It's not denying good hygiene in addition to a fashionable, up-to-date wardrobe. Hardly. That stuff adds color our health. It's about finding balance in this culture that continually seeks to convince us that we need more, more, and even more to be satisfied. It's some sort of lesson, learned over earlier this decade and verified yesterday by hanging out at the mall with two happy-go-lucky pre-teens who were just happy to get together, that the cost involving beauty has less to do with product than it does with spirit. For magnificence doesn't exist in costly haircuts and color jobs, or in the youth dew in the bottle, or in the outfit hanging relating to the mannequin in the store window. Beauty exists in the heart grown old enough to learn when she has everything you require and then more. When she'd rather see kids buoyed up with laughter rather then burdened down with browsing bags. When she can give the mall without more stuff to hang into her closet and fall into line on her bathroom corner. Beauty has more about going without so that others may pick. Beauty might just mean being very happy with clean skin, clear little brown eyes, and freshly shampooed, efficiently cut and styled locks. Simple things. Without a lot of the other stuff.

Because the cost of beauty can never be measured by the asking price of stuff anyway.
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There are three things I never born clogs clearancelove to find in my mailbox - an insurance charge, a jury summons, together with another invitation to my own cousin Fern's Scrapbooking for Jesus party. Last 30 days I received all a few. I paid the charge, called Fern and regretfully reduced because my neighbor's Jewellery for Jesus party was on a single day, and sat there holding the state red summons with a-tremble hand asking, "Why myself, Lord? Why me? " And He answered, "Why not necessarily you? " And like I had been taught by just about every motivational speaker since birth, I did an inward attitude reversal and decided to embrace jury duty along with the same enthusiasm that my Aunt Bitsy embraces your all-you-can-eat chicken wing buffet.

Some people don't believe you may prepare for jury job. I, however, was born because of it, having clocked in at 1000 forty-seven episodes of Regulation and Order, SVU and Criminal Intent, and four consecutive seasons of CSI. But not only have I been educated in all of the aspects of the law and ways to gather evidence wearing high heels and cleavage inspired t-shirts, but I am also quite confident i could perform an autopsy when request, along with slightly criminal profiling - all in one hour. The only thing left to do, of course, was to plan my outfit. I went for any animal print clogs along with the black slacks that hold in my stomach, and the matching animal print vest which i ditched at the last minute for fear of some sort of stray PETA activist who didn't know her faux. It was undoubtedly the best outfit for serving my civic duty popular and I give full credit to People magazine.