{"id":2391,"date":"2013-03-27T10:56:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2013-06-02T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T20:31:23","slug":"beautiful-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2013\/03\/beautiful-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is nothing more beautiful on earth than my daughter. And I would like to say that is true objectively, and know that this is an immovable truth that I have found for all time.<\/p>\n

But there is no such thing as objective beauty, is there? It is all in the eye of the beholder.<\/p>\n

Other people tell me she is beautiful sometimes. She doesn’t seem concerned about it. But I am flattered to have a fellow admirer of her eyes, and her little hands and legs and skin and all-over body.<\/p>\n

One of the side effects of having a daughter is that she looks like me. A little. I think she has my eyes. She definitely has my legs. Her little legs, perfect legs straight and strong, and they are kinda mine.<\/p>\n

Stupid women’s magazines will make disparaging comments about thighs that rub together–presumably because they are too fat–and I have always felt like that was a flaw that I should find a way to correct. The inside seams of my jeans rub and wear out first. Obviously it’s something wrong with me.<\/p>\n

But Veronica’s perfect body has strong thighs that meet all the way down to her knees.<\/p>\n

Like mine.<\/p>\n

Maybe those magazines are wrong. Because she is undeniably perfect and beautiful. Never a doubt.<\/p>\n

I do enjoy the beautiful. I have an art print in my dressing area. La Toilette<\/em><\/p>\n

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Isn’t she pretty? It’s nice to have her there as I get ready for my day and try to make myself presentable.<\/p>\n

Veronica noticed her one day. She pointed and said “It’s mommy.”<\/p>\n

Well. Perhaps she is a mommy. That’s also nice to think about.<\/p>\n

“No. It’s you mommy.”<\/p>\n

“That’s not me. It’s somebody’s mommy, but that’s not me.”<\/p>\n

She is too beautiful to be me. If I were to sit like that there would be so \u00a0many flaws, I would not…I just couldn’t..<\/p>\n

“It’s you mommy!” Veronica wasn’t giving it up. SHe insisted that the beautiful woman in the drawing was me.<\/p>\n

I guess to her, I am that beautiful. For her, the flaws are not even visible or possible.<\/p>\n

Maybe the magazines are wrong. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.<\/p>\n

And love makes everything beautiful.<\/p>\n

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