Summer is going to have to make do with my winter-body again this year.
Unchanged.
Except
perhaps a little lighter…
Oh,
not from less food and more exercise, no, not that.
From
releasing the weight of society’s expectation,
of how
I should look in a swimsuit,
from
detoxing my brain of the conditioning
drummed
into us from childhood.
I’ve much better things to do, than look great for the eyes of strangers on a beach.
I have
magic to make, stories to weave and adventures to begin.
I have
food to taste, wonders to see and seas in which I must swim.
Summer is going to have to make do with my winter-body again this year.
No
apologies from me.
-Donna Ashworth
