protecting self.

My family seemed to *believe* in suffering - in fact, one of my dad's favorite phrases was, "Suffering builds character."

Yeah, right.


*I* prefer to think of it like this:

consider lily: she toils not; neither does she spin.
she is BEAUTIFUL
just as she IS.

:-)


(As I understand it, 'lily' originally meant something like, 'wildflowers', meaning, the untended flowers of the fields, who were beautiful 'just as they were'. Something more like wild poppies than modern-day, cultivated lilies.)