Be Beautiful

"Beautiful" by Marillion (off their "Afraid of Sunlight" album)

Everybody knows we live in a world
Where they give bad names to beautiful things
Everybody knows we live in a world
Where we don't give beautiful things a second glance

Heaven only knows we live in a world
Where what we call beautiful is just something on sale
People laughing behind their hands
As the fragile and the sensitive are given no chance

And the leaves turn from red to brown
To be trodden down
To be trodden down
And the leaves turn from red to brown
Fall to the ground
Fall to the ground

We don't have to live in a world
Where we give bad names to beautiful things
We should live in a beautiful world
We should give beautiful a second chance

And the leaves fall from red to brown
To be trodden down
Trodden down
And the leaves turn green to red to brown
Fall to the ground
And get kicked around

You strong enough to be
Have you the courage to be
Have you the faith to be
Honest enough to stay
Don't have to be the same
Don't have to be this way
C'mon and sign your name
You wild enough to remain beautiful?
Beautiful

And the leaves turn from red to brown
To be trodden down
Trodden down
And we fall green to red to brown
Fall to the ground
But we can turn it around

You strong enough to be
Why don't you stand up and say
Give yourself a break
They'll laugh at you anyway
So why don't you stand up and be
Beautiful

Black, white, red, gold, and brown
We're stuck in this world
Nowhere to go
Turnin' around
What are you so afraid of?
Show us what you're made of
Be yourself and be beautiful
Beautiful

Note: Capitalized recipes are my own.

Day 100

• cup of hot jasmine green tea with honey
• Superfood IceScream (ice, honey, almonds, water, cacao nibs, goji berries, colostrum, maca, lucuma, mesquite, sea salt)
  
• lunch out at Whole Foods: vegetable sushi; Synergy Trilogy kombucha
• 3 slices of Carrot Raisin Manna Bread with coconut oil
• a few sips of fruit juice and vodka (ugh!)
• Hoppin' John (brown rice, black-eyed peas, onions, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, orange bell pepper, celery, garlic, cumin, chili powder, black pepper, sea salt) with guacamole, salsa, and hot sauce; green salad (butter lettuce, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, orange bell pepper, grape tomatoes, cucumbers with store-bought French dressing); water
• Yumpot (cacao powder, coconut oil, cashew butter, coconut flakes, honey, maca, sea salt)
  
• cup of Reishi Brew (reishi, cat's claw, Pau d'Arco, elderberries, vanilla bean)
  
• few bites of conventional cheesecake
  
  

Today's Observations
I tried the cheesecake just to see what it would taste like and, nope, still don't like it. I make a great raw vegan cheesecake that ROCKS. Miss that. I'm going to have to make that soon. Also tried that fruit juice and vodka drink to see how it would affect me. I haven't had hard liquor in ages. Within about 10 minutes of drinking those sips, I got a headache. I'll stick to Jim's home brews, thank you very much.