Click the Link

[Cita]

She looked in the mirror today and for the first time ever she saw a woman... a grown woman, a strong woman, a necessary woman, an ageless woman.

Gone was the little girl, the teenage filly, the enduring mother, the fetcher/carrier/bearer/queen.

Here was a woman.

She turned from the mirror and turned the dial on the washer, turned the key in the ignition, turned the pot roast on its side, turned the page in her book, turned 23 or 46 or 89, turned her back on the past, turned her face toward the sun, wrinkles be damned.  

She be damned other things while the woman in the mirror looked calmly on---be damned the magazines and the potions in painted pots, be damned the gym and the stilettos while she sought out the paths with trees holding hands overhead, be damned the ones who use words like shouldn't and can't and limits, be damned all rigidity and diets and tight waistbands.

She said goodnight kindly to the woman in the mirror; she said hello to herself, the one who showed up in her dreams, a journal in her hands.

[Jeanette Cheezum]

The description here is divine.

[Ron. Lavalette]

Lord knows I loves me a good repetition, and these here are the best...the BEST.

[Teresa]

I miss you.  Faved.

[Joey Delgado]

The empowerment she feels is palpable. Gorgeous writing.

[Gita]

You have a knack for building to a crescendo using repetition that gives real power to your sentences. I like especially the way you use damned to that purpose. I'd use this six to teach a class. Fave.

[Bill Floyd]

Gorgeous in most every way I can think of.

[Jamie Hogan]

YES. Preach. You have a knack for placing a very simple sentence in your pieces, but framing it in such a way as to give it power it wouldn't have had otherwise. Here the sentence is "Here was a woman." Those words show up at a time and place, and the phrasing is so ruthlessly simple...it's a straight right hand to the gut. I want to do that, just once.