Aging? Bring It On! Part Two
It’s been two weeks since Ronna Detrick shared her ideas on The Art of Aging with us. Ronna is a guide who inspires courage as she moves one graceful step ahead with kindness and wisdom. Her Conversational Space project is where we will find more offerings like this. Thank you and come back soon Ronna!
Aging? Bring It On! Part 2
I think there is a direct correlation between voice and beauty. Voice is not just the words we speak; it is an embodied articulation of our deepest truth; this know-that-we-know-that-we-know expression of our passions, our desires, our hearts. When we actually show up in courageous, confident, articulate, out-loud ways, we create an experience (for self and others) of aging that is winsome, stunning, inviting, provocative and yes, beautiful.
I observe this all the time, don’t you? When in the presence of amazing and incredible women I am consistently stunned by their beauty. It’s something intangible and yet oh-so-real – made manifest in their words, their actions, their very presence. It will not be tamed. It will not be silenced. And no amount of years can hide its radiance. It is beautiful.
As I age, now just months away from my 50th birthday, I hear the voice that tells me I am one of them: an incredible woman who will not be tamed or silenced, who will not hide, who is radiant. 5 years ago I wouldn’t have been able to hear that voice, let alone believe it – live it out loud. But now I do. It speaks the truth. As do I.
And it’s a beautiful thing.
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Bring it on!
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I have always struggled at seeing myself as beautiful. Each time, matter how good others said I looked, I would wince inwardly when looking at pictures of myself. So many layers in that statement, I know… But amazingly, yesterday, sitting in my sanctuary surrounded by the beautiful flowers that I loved, I took some more pictures… This time, when I looked at her, I liked what I saw.
Oh and FYI… Since your birthday is actually an anniversary — My 50th year starts June 24th — Bring it On!
Flowers do things to us on a level that is so sweetly mysterious…Hope you share your photos someday. Thank you for stopping by
Love that you surrounded yourself with the beauty that speaks most deeply to you, Rebecca, and, in so doing, saw the beauty that exists so deeply within you – and without. All SO good! And 50?!? I’m with ya’ – BRING IT ON!!
How beautifully said… I love how Ronna encompasses the voice in all of the aging process…so important. And if we are open to hearing voices that tell us how beautiful we are at every age, we will all be singing the same…and passing on songs that sing the same message. Thank you so much for this! Robbie
This passing on of songs is a beautiful, powerful metaphor, Robbie. It places me in a long line of women before and those yet to come – my daughters and theirs. Thank you.