PERFECTLY YOU

photo by maf04

Model and body-activist Ashley Graham has become the first plus-size Sports Illustrated cover model.  Though "she'd rather we do away with the" plus-size category altogether.  "It's a pretty big deal," that she models on both the cover, and the inside of the magazine spread.  Beauty comes in all sizes.  Or better yet, beauty knows no size.     story          

Principle in the type:  "[We are] becoming so concerned about having perfect figures, or straight A’s, or professional status, or even absolute motherly success that we are being torn from our true selves. We often worry so much about pleasing and performing for others that we lose our own uniqueness, that full and relaxed acceptance of ourselves as a person of worth and individuality.”      Patricia Holland   

FAB.ULOUS

photo by lifescript

Sorry 'bout the blurry picture - but do you know this guy?  It's Fabio.  He was a big deal in the 90s with the ladies.   Fabio modeled and acted and whatnot, and just recently at the age 57 became a naturalized American citizen, saying it was "one of the happiest days of his life."   Happy days are the best.   story

Principle in the type:  "Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale of all.”       Hans Christian Andersen

          

HURRY UP AND SLOW DOWN

photo by Ronnie macdonald

If ostriches hailed from Ireland (weaving in yesterday's holiday here), they would always finish St. Patrick's Day parades first.




                                  

Principle in the type:  "But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations."    Gwyn Thomas

                                                                  Top o' the morning to ya' All Weekend Long, Peeps!

LET GO OF MY LEGO

photo by Lego Photo mureut

What hurt's more?   Stepping barefoot on your Legos, or having them stolen??  Police in Portland arrested a man "who agreed to sell stolen Legos to undercover investigators."  Hey, it starts with Legos - who knows where it will end!    news          

Principle in the type:  "Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future, if you will take control of it. Do not let your lives drift in a fruitless and worthless manner."       Gordon B Hinckley

FACE TIME

photo by Praveen

After once again another actress, Gillian Anderson, was studied and in the press blasted for alleged cosmetic surgery, it was kind of fine with me to give the women a break, when during awards season attention was turned to Tom Cruise.  It has been media-deemed his face is too "puffy" and he's had "some kind" of work done.   (If it matters, Anderson posted "this is how I really look.  #agingwithoutshame.")        link   

It's complicated, trying to look young.  Do we need to look forever young?  What matters most?  

Principle in the type:  "Do you think outward attractiveness, your dress size, or popularity make the slightest difference in your worth to the One who created the universe?"   Dieter F Uchtdorf  

RAISING THE BAR

photo by Valentina Yachichurova

Parenting 101:  Don't leave your baby in the car while you go to a strip club.  Don't leave your baby in the car anywhere.  Don't have a baby and spend your afternoons in a strip club.   
"A man was in custody Thursday after allegedly leaving his 9-month-old daughter in a car in Panorama City while he went into a nearby strip club, authorities said. . . . 'He parked and walked about two blocks to the club,' said police."  Passerby's found the baby and called 911.       news        

Principle in the type:  "As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.”        Thomas S. Monson