R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Thoughts for R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Women
After a midlife divorce, women often become super critical about how we look. We join a health club, or even get plastic surgery because sometimes we think if we just looked younger our wasband wouldn’t have been attracted to that 32 year-old. (Fact: If he is that kind of man, it doesn’t matter how gorgeous you are. Remember, it’s about his lack of integrity, not how you look.) I was one of those women who joined a health club while in the process of divorce … but I did so as much to even out my emotions, that a good, hard workout brings, as much as to have “buns of steel.” But I did love the new sleeker body I got in the process, not to mention keeping ahead of cellulite. But how many of us have seen 50/60/70 year-olds who try to be victorious in that that unwinnable war against natural, graceful aging? After cosmetic surgery, some look like caricatures of real women. It’s embarrassing. As I was going through my Dad’s bookshelves recently, I found a book entitled The Paranoid’s Pocket Guide. Hundreds of Things You Never Knew You Had to Worry About. The Following is an excerpt from that book: Think about these things if you are tempted to check in with a cosmetic surgeon:
CHEMICAL PEELS AND NASAL SAWS
(Excerpted from the program of a recent World Congress on Cosmetic Surgical Rejuvenation of the face, body and extremities, held in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.)
10:30 a.m. – “Use of Cheek/Neck Flap in Facial Plastic Surgery
11:45 a.m. – “Removal of Eyeliner Pigmentation with an Argon Laser”
1:30 p.m. – “An Alternative Method for the Nasal Osteotomy Utilizing the Dual Plane Reciprocating Nasal Saw Blade”
2:15 p.m. – Workshop – “How to Prevent a Lawsuit”
6:00 p.m. – Cocktail Party, Grand Ballroom
Let’s revel and rejoice in the full, fun, fine-wine women we are, and let our wasbands worry about people thinking he is his girlfriend’s dad.
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139:14 (NIV)
