Stories Collected While Living in France

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Beauty Spot

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Beauty is where you find it and I see it everywhere. In peeling paint. Rusty keys. Dry grass clippings. The way the pancake batter drips droplets on the grill. Beauty is here. Simply understated. No need to put on airs or dye your hair. I cannot pass an object just because it is, chipped or cracked or blemished…what some might see as ugly aging spots….. are simply beauty marks to me!

photo: Aged Rosette on a crumbling mirror in my home in France. Post from past revisited.

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32 responses to “Beauty Spot”

  1. kathleen

    Your album “life outside my door” is simply amazing… what a gorgeous village you live in! Thanks so much for the sweet comment, I had so much fun exploring your blog. Cheers!
    (tongue in Cheek responds: The south of France is a wonderland!)

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  2. kali

    Beauty marks indeed!

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  3. Mrs.Staggs

    I hope you find more beautiful things today!

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  4. herhimnbryn

    Crumbling beauty, huh?
    Typing this looking out of the kitchen window……..
    aged terracotta pots ( bought 2nd hand, their patina too good to pass by).19 Century dark red clay house bricks edging the flower beds. Pale and faded yellow curtains at the window. Thankyou Corey.

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  5. Gina

    You provide beauty to us all!

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  6. MARYBETH

    Hi (((COREY))
    all signs of imperfections or age -tell a story- add character -now i just need to apply this truth to my wrinkles and ever increasing brown spots =)
    XO
    MBhttp://thriftbarterbuy.blogspot.com/

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  7. carolg@ParisBreakfasts

    Could you please come here and find some beauty…
    I need to cross an ocean and then there’s beauty everywhere for me :-ll

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  8. Shannon L

    Imperfect is more beautiful than perfect.

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  9. gracie

    If beauty is in the eye of the beholder… you must have incredibly beautiful eyes!

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  10. Jeanne

    You always find beautiful things and share your lovely words.
    I thank you for your inspiration each day!
    It means so very much to me.
    Love Jeanne
    X0X0

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  11. Cat

    I will keep your words in my heart today, and I too will see beauty everywhere.
    Thank you.

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  12. mary ann

    corey my dear, you are a kindred spirit…i mirror what you’ve said here! yes, beauty is everywhere & in the eye of the beholder.
    hugs 2 u, mary ann xo

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  13. AnnieElf

    Old is good. It denotes experience and maturity. I don’t mind aging personally, however, I really would like to replace my aging couch. Something just don’t improve with age. LOL

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  14. diana

    old= patina+character squared

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  15. jzr

    Absolutely right on!!

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  16. andrea edwards

    YES! My stretch marks…warrior lines I say. 🙂
    a.

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  17. Paris Parfait

    Earlier today I was trying to leave a comment and my computer crashed. This happens every couple of minutes, so hope I manage to get through – love your post. Old things with marks, flaws, etc. are the best – and I look at the fine lines around my eyes and my stretch marks as the map of my personal history. No botox for me!

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  18. wilsonian

    Do you have any idea what a rare, prescious, beautiful gift you have…
    I’m so blessed by your generosity in sharing it 🙂

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  19. Penny

    You should know that your daily comments bring beauty into our lives. I do love the comments about our wrinkles — using that criteria I am a beauty with a capital “B”.

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  20. lindaharre

    THank the Lord there are more like you or I would be passed up more than noticed! tee hee
    ps. still haven’t mailed the cage, but will Monday morn:)

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  21. Kit

    I like my house and furniture that way too, chips, cracks, flaws – more sympathetic companions, mirroring human imperfection, rather than glossy, pristine surfaces showing me up!

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  22. Colette

    The wine ages, the bottle gets dusty. But oh it is so much more beautiful (on the palate)!!
    Salut, chérie!

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  23. Jann Mumford

    Very well said………I agree with every word!

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  24. deirdre

    I agree, the more lived in and lived with an object is, the more I like it. As for hair color, hmmm, I like that too. 🙂

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  25. boliyou

    well put, and a beautiful photo.

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  26. Catalina

    because you are an artist! 🙂

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  27. simple me

    Your comments are touching me. You are so right beauty can be found all around us, although sometimes we just tend not to look properly with the right pair of eyes.
    I just hope I can grow learning to observe things with beauty in mind all the time.
    bjs
    paula

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  28. Jeanne

    Beauty and blessings to you darling one.
    My son arrived for a visit home from Asia yesterday.
    I am doing the happy happy joy joy dance.
    Love you!
    Be well.
    Jeanne
    X0X0

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  29. expatraveler

    That’s so true corey! Beauty is everywhere…
    I’m glued to the tour already too. 🙂

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  30. teresa

    My home is flawed. I am flawed. Chipped, rusty, cracked. All signs of a life well lived. All signs that nothing is too precious to use. All confirmation that people were welcomed and that they could not worry about what damage they may do. All signs that being “real” is the best way to be.
    Have a beautiful day.

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  31. cruststation

    So true to life, you reflect beauty in the way you look at life, people. So wonderful of you not to neglect them as rejects but as Objects of beauty through flaws and cracks.

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  32. gracia

    Withered dry grass clippings and peeling paint… such beautiful images conjured up once more by your words, Corey.
    take care, grache

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