Personal Yummy #95

What would it be like to be a bird-of-paradise in sunny Venice, Florida?

Like any other beauty, I assume.

Unique. Gorgeous. Unusual.

Admired and envied.

The focus of many.

As Rose (Barbra Streisand) asks her mother, Hannah (Lauren Bacall), in The Mirror Has Two Faces—one of my most favorite movies—“How did it feel? Being beautiful?”

The bird-of-paradise is adorned in bright orange and blue, with sturdy, abundant green leaves and stalks.

It is exotic, tropical, regal…

Complex.

And it makes you feel that way when you regard it, especially if you’ve rarely encountered it before.

But—no matter what you think of it … or others think of it—it is beautiful because it knows it’s so.

That’s right.

Just like the rest of us.