"Then the old women seem to cackle, 'Oh, what the hell,' and they start dancing. They've stopped chasing anything down, and you feel the rush of life force that this frees up inside them. Their gnarled witchy fingers are on the catotid artery of the culture, the link between the living and the dead, and in their faces and their bodies and their movement, you see the beauty of having come through."
-Pg. 174, Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
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she is utterly and completely beautiful. i love this picture. and how beautiful her wrinkles are, and all that they must hold of life, of laughing, of smiling, of frowning, of crying. and this quote is amazing, "you see the beauty of having come through." i love that our aging and wrinkling would tell of such a story.
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