Just look

Breathing, walking, having real hair.

Just look at us.

~ Rachel Khong, Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel

 


Photo: Patty Maher

32 thoughts on “Just look”

    1. All these problems that can be ascribed to Brilliant friends who speak / understand multiple languages. (When this/my tongue can only manage to wrap his around 1)

      1. You’re too kind – I’m quite sure you’re very good at making money with YOUR craft & knowledge. We have just different talents!

  1. Why does this photo and excerpt seem so bleak to me? …then I feel empathy for all the women whose lives are curtailed and ruled by religious and cultural laws. Signed, Debbie Downer

  2. Those look like sandhills (which I love to see flying over). I suppose I would agree with Valerie that the photo seems bleak, but the fact that these cranes are in it makes it a happy trigger for beautiful memories for me.

  3. And the hair thing is more important for women, but I don’t mind baldness on a man at all. Is the real hair quote a reference to cancer and chemo treatments? In that case I understand why it is significant, but still – it’s only hair.

      1. Yes, but where does that leave people who have thin or little hair? Depends whom she’s comparing with. It’s a bit vain if she’s comparing her hair status with that of others. If she’s comparing to herself, hairless in the past, then okay, be overjoyed.

          1. It’s what’s on the inside that’s more important. I remember one of our guests gasping when another (good-looking) guest took his cap off and she saw that he was bald. Disappointed in her, I shook my head and thought, “How shallow you are.”

  4. Must admit, I saw someone recovering after chemo and living beyond cancer in this post. Not depressing, Its just so darn good to be alive. Nothing more. Nothing less. 🙏

  5. Gosh, am I THAT shallow? Or just naïve? Or both? I never thought of cancer and loosing one’s hair although I should know better….. God, now I don’t like that photo any more…. and I’m sad for not having seen further than just the simple, maybe even a bit nostalgic beauty.

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