I had never really considered what being Latino meant to me until Lance Rios of Being Latino asked. It’s something that I have, at times, taken completely for granted and at other times I have resented as an unasked for burden. I love my culture, don’t get me wrong, but there have been times in my life where other people have left me feeling that I have something to prove. That I have to prove my worth as an individual because I was poor, because I was from the Bronx, because I was Latino. There have been times where I have felt that I had to even prove that I was Latino, or Latino enough, to people who were old enough and educated enough to know better than to categorize something as ephemeral as cultural identity.

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His words make me feel beautiful – CNN.com.

I felt this when I read it. I can only hope that when I have lived as long as the author, my husband will feel the same way.

“I don’t believe that inner beauty is sufficient in this cruel world. That’s the pap one tells a child. I don’t believe that positive thinking improves your skin tone or that loving or being loved changes the shape of your nose or restores the thickness and color of hair, but I do know that there is a way of being beautiful, even as age takes its toll, that has something to do with the spirit filling with joy, something to do with the union with another human being, with the sense of having done well at something enormously important, like making happy a man who has made you happy often enough.”

Etsy :: TotusMel :: Tatted Jewelry and Accessories, Unique and Elegant.

Absolutely beautiful tatting work. A must-see.

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Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center.

I love miniature things, and the idea of planting a miniature garden in a container sends me into raptures. There’s even miniature garden gnomes!