Your Inner Bombshell Is YOU: The Girl In The Mirror

Your Inner Bombshell Is YOU: The Girl In The Mirror

The pursuit of a ‘perfect’ body impacts our psyche and typically not for the better.

With all the hoopla around the Ralph Lauren ads and Karl Lagerfeld’s psychological slap across the face to ‘potato chip eating fat mommies’, women’s ire and frustration are focused at designers. There’s more to this picture, and it involves us.

Smart Sensuality Angelina Jolie: Virtue Considered in Carversville's Country Air

Smart Sensuality Angelina Jolie: Virtue Considered in Carversville’s Country Air

The air in Carversville is so clear, the light so luminous, that church bells penetrate the air from miles away. The sound is more penetrating to my ears than in Florence. Why is it that I fall deeply into considerations of the meaning of everyday life, immersed in the sensory delight of this lush landscape?

I drink my double espresso, reading Tom Junod’s thought-provoking article about Angelina Jolie in July Esquire. The topic is virtue … hers and ours … and the meaning of 9/11 in our celebrity-struck, American lives, over five years later.

Life at the Scene of the Crime

Jolie has worked tirelessly since 9/11 to make a difference. Have I?