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Life, actually…

SPACKLE SPACKLE EVERYWHERE

(Random Ideas About Reality and Fantasy and In-Betweenness)

Your unconscious beauty reveals you as you really are, in this split second between ego surges.

Others secretly bask in your glow. They sense the unvarnished and deep-seated being you really are. The untainted version. Sensible, caring.

All that spackle you apply only covers up your worth. The caring being is hidden, becomes mannequin-like, impresses facade-lovers everywhere. Your surface attracts only other surfaces. Pomp and primp dominate a masquerade ball, but the real stuff is also worthy of celebration.

Where are you, this loving and loved soul disguised with hairpiece and lashes and half a pound of cover-up and fragrance enhancer and body exaggeration?

Oh, it’s ok that this is the way you evade the confusions of real life. After all, we all dodge and weave and look the other way when reality bites.

But once in a while why not gather together a handful of people who just want to be immersed in the act of being alive and together, just the way they are?

Too much to ask of your comrades? Too personal?

Should this special gathering of artifice-droppers decide to open up and baste themselves in reality, a supply of elaborate masks and shrouds will be on hand each time it becomes too much.

Everybody has a laughing place, a briar patch, a cone of invisibility nearby in case of emergency.

Before you duck out of sight, allow the world to enjoy a peek at your beautiful vulnerability. You have the right to peek right back.

The other side of the looking glass awaits