Body Perfection: Mereana Taki

Mereana Taki on April 8, 2012 - Cover # 82

Body perfection lies more in what a body of works has accomplished. It is a deliberate misleading choice of words. Body perfection requirements break all similarities between a woman and a man's usage of the body during the loss of virginity, and the first birth. The two stand on opposite sides of a phenomenon in wonder, if they are not jaded, and blurred of vision by then. But in an ideal context body perfection isn't perfection at all. It is close to the evaluation of divine sources as a source of divinity itself within a body.  A mother's body produces awe in the beginning, and in the journey to the end of Life the beauty of her body is the reflection of her relationship with several worlds beginning with how she loves herself, the baby and the man who gave her the seed. Such complexity exists within the simple beauty of an older woman's body. Judged harshly few get to see the ever unfolding revelations of beautiful subtle shifts. The breasts, the stomach, the arms, thighs, the face; the lot of them together with their attendant voices clamor for affection. They long to be held, and held together the reciprocation is overwhelming as the years progress.

I sense and see these things within you Mereana, and many other women who are powerful or not in relationship with their powers of Being. The goal of an aging body is not perfection it is wholeness. It is why an older woman is so deeply sensual, and desirable. The roundness is the medicinal story of redemption, reproduction and resurrection. It isn't leanness and muscles, and toned abs. The allure of a body of works, of strong growth, and memories of sustaining energies is the perfection of bodies women have in their older years that is so sexy, so powerful, so full of meaning, and tease. .~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.20.12

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