Easy Beauty

I read the book above in three days. I recommend that followers buy the book to read.

Imagine that like Chloe Cooper Jones you’re walking down the street and hear others say: “What is that?”

This was an ordinary reaction Cooper Jones received because her physical disability was obvious. She was not treated like a human being who has feelings.

I think how could anyone living on earth think it’s OK to act that way? How could they not see that there was nothing at all right about what they were doing.

Did their family not teach them to have compassion? My family did not teach me to hate. I was expected to treat everyone I interacted with in the same open, equal way.

Faced with the reality that Cooper Jones exposed in her memoir Easy Beauty it’s hard for me to believe that most people are kind and caring.

In the coming blog entry I’m going to talk about how I think having a photogenic face and lithe body is NOT always a prize or blessing either. Case in point: I’ve only been ghosted every time on OKCupid. The only guy on OKCupid who expressed an interest in me was a scammer.

There’s no comparing everyone’s pain to each other. What each of us goes through is not a birthday party. Whatever thing we’re going through should not be minimized or taken lightly.

Yet even in the face of a struggle it always pay to have a sense of humor to get you through the hard time.

That is the strength of Chloe Cooper Jones voice in Easy Beauty: she tackles a terrible experience with grace and insight. She has come out a winner and her memoir is a must-read.