During the days of the Great Proletarian Cultural revolution in China, in the 1960's, Chairman Mao dismissed beauty as a bourgeois concept . Red Guards closed flower shops and ordered people to destroy their gold fish.Everyone dressed alike, in unisex, unicolour ,uniforms. China became a drab society , or on the surface at least. What actually happened, as later became clear, was that beauty went underground. Women cultivated flowers in their homes and wore brightly coloured blouses under their gray Mao jackets. Children hid jars of gold fishes under their beds. Until government policy changed, bringing it back into the open, beauty existed as a kind of dangerous, hidden secret. A rumor of another world.

-- Philip Yancey

"Rumors Of Another World"

This is a great book, I'd recommend to anyone and everyone, especially those searching for something new and old about popular religion. The guy says a lot of good things, but then is hypocritical in his descriptions and his choice of adjectives can be pretty backward. So, yeah, if you can ignore that much, there's some great paragraphs like the one above.

Sounds intense

Interesting the way people preserve their sould. thanks for readin' Kare-Bear.

Hey, did you call the other day? there was a number from your area, but i wasn't sure if it were yours. Jest wonderin! Didn't want o miss ya if it were you, I may call ya anyhow to say hey.

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Originally posted by pen dragon:
Interesting the way people preserve their sould. thanks for readin' Kare-Bear.

Hey, did you call the other day? there was a number from your area, but i wasn't sure if it were yours. Jest wonderin! Didn't want o miss ya if it were you, I may call ya anyhow to say hey.

I haven't called in a while, so that's odd. but i would definitely love to hear from ya! :]

Hidden beauty. I love it.

Karin

Meggy