My grandmother had gorgeous skin into her 80s. My mother, too, is beautiful. When my grandmother died she made me swear to her that I would keep my mother in face cream if she couldn't afford it.
If you want to know their beauty secrets, they're pretty much these. It's simpler than you'd think, and involves no plastic surgery. In fact, it's pretty cheap.
Yes, I made GirlChild walk with books on her head. But I want silk pillowcases for Christmas.
Unfortunately, the best kept beauty secret of all is to just be born with good genes. Lucky you!
Posted by: Pat | August 05, 2008 at 09:06 PM
Our grandmother was a teacher too, in nature as well as profession. My wife and I were visiting once, and like the young (at that time), were easily focused on our own lives in our speech. She sat us down and said, "If you want to be good conversationalists, you have to talk more about the other person's insterests, not mostly your own."
It was a cold splash of water that we needed, a kindness, in fact, to make us think about the polite way of interacting and what it says about self- versus other-centeredness.
Thanks for reminding me.
Posted by: Chris | August 06, 2008 at 06:36 AM