"And while you're at it, and to hell with the hateful Puritanism that
underlies it all, the vile voice that says the body is ugly and the
flesh is sinful and it's all a pathetic, shameful thing to be
ignored, or heavily medicated, or glutted beyond recognition and finally
rejected like so much animal meat. This way misery and conservatism
lies.
"Instead, let us hereby amplify the idea that we get a
terrifically short ride on this pale blue dot, and hitch it to the
deeply mystical notion that your body is actually a wildly sacred
container to be cherished and celebrated like a goddamn roller coaster
bumper car funhouse temple of wow.
"Can you do that? Recreate yourself anew every single day and
feed your core with all manner of joy and bliss, wine and movement, sex
and moan, sweat and heartbeat and taking the stairs two at a time
because the stairs actually prefer it that way?" | 