“Girl Talk”

Girl Talk

Imagine the day when we laugh with our friends…
And never once,
not once,
mention diets !

©elizabeth patch, More to Love

I’m so fat.
I hate my thighs.
I really shouldn’t eat this.
I need to lose some weight.
I need to get some exercise.
How many calories are in this?
Diet, diet, diet,
blah, blah, blah…

Many of us have

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Perfect Beach Bodies and Seashells

mother and baby on the beach

Two things I love about going to the beach are
finding seashells and watching people.

A perfectly flawless shell is a rare discovery,
but the shells that are tossed and worn by the tides
are far more interesting in their unique individuality,
because of the imperfections.

The variety of people

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10 Ways to Compliment a Woman, without mentioning her looks

I confess.
I secretly love it when someone compliments
a new haircut or admires my outfit.
But what really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside is when I get praise for
something other than my appearance.
Notice my garden, ask me about my writing, compliment my children or my home, praise my drawing

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Daydreams and Down Time

Do these two conflicting “to do” lists
sound familiar?

1. Things I MUST do:
the house, the kids, the job, the shopping, the errands, the bills, the yard, the cooking, the cleaning
(and on and on and on!)
2. Things I WANT to do:
hang out with my friends, read a novel, take a class,

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Lesson from the Garden: Beauty Grows in Endless Forms

Take a walk through a garden nursery,
or flip through a seed catalog,
and you might become overwhelmed
with the variety of sizes, shapes, colors and forms.
Huge, thick-stalked sunflowers,
tiny clusters of delicate forget-me-nots,
the adorable faces of pansies,
lilies in every color of the rainbow.
Flowers that love cool, damp shady locations,
and flowers that thrive in

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Graduation: Letting Go and Moving On!

Graduation Day: Letting Go and Moving On!

I am a high school teacher,
so I have been to dozens of graduations.
It’s always pomp & circumstance,
caps & gowns, friends and family,
flowers and balloons, tears and cheers.
And for a few brief hours,
all those kids who had separated themselves
into rival cliques,
the trouble-makers and

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Too Fat for Summer?

Summer Pleasures

Swimming…

Riding a bike…

Picnics and hikes…

The backyard and the beach…

Swinging in a hammock full of daydreams…

No bikini required!

© Elizabeth Patch, all rights reserved, from “More to Love”

Finally, it’s summertime!
Picnics, parks, gardens, pools, lakes, the ocean,
bike rides, hiking, hammocks, flip-flops,
BBQs and cook outs, farmer’s markets,
long days, warm nights, fireflies, butterflies…
so

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Make an Ordinary Day a Special Occasion

I ran into one of my friends at the grocery store
on  Saturday.
As we caught up on chit-chat,
I was suddenly embarrassed to be seen
wearing my sloppy around-the-house clothes,
no makeup, my hair an unstyled mess.

While driving home,
I realized that I had a habit of wearing
my least favorite clothes
most the time!
Even though I

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Stop Complaining About Your Body

© elizabeth patch, all rights reserved

Go ahead. Get it all out of your system.
Complain about your body.
Whine about how ugly you are.
Go on and on about how much you hate yourself.

I hate my butt! My legs are too fat!
Everything about me is too fat!
I hate my hair!

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An Hourglass Figure

This is Lillian Russell in 1905, actress, singer, and great American beauty.

Even in a tightly bound corset, this be-jeweled and be-feathered darling of the stage might
not make it past her first audition today, simply because she does not have the type of body
that is currently in fashion.
And yet, at the

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