A different perspective

Life has been super busy so until I can get a chance to catch up here's something we read in our body image group. It's a very different view point than I am used to believing. I thought it was very poetic and lovely...

A Parable of Fat's Creation
And creating them in Her own image and likeness, Goddess says, "Let there be fat." And there is fat, to envelope and warm the whole bodies of the man and the woman. To both of them are given this great gift, in different measure, according to their particular perfections. To the woman, in great measure is fat given. A mantel of sensitivity and sensuality Goddess grants her in this luminous fleece beneath her skin. The lines of her form are thus distinguished from the man's, augmenting her breasts and hips and belly and bottom, rooting her thighs like trunks to earth's molten core, rich stores of yellow sap just below her surface. This soft layer deep to her skin gives shape to the woman's power, for here she stores her resource, here she draws to herself her love in sensual embraces, here she comforts and feeds her children, nuzzling swirls of pillowed mounds and fountains of nourishment for body and spirit. Here she finely attunes her perception of everything and everyone around her - the movement of animals, the sounds of the night, the order of the stars, sun and moon, the cycling of seasons, and the echo of every beating heart rippling subtle waves of feeling through the delicate, wise web of listening flesh. Here she embeds the wisdom of "Her will be done" with all that she senses and knows. Adorned with her bright yellow dream coat, the woman dances; her form flies, undulates, and rolls, mapping stories in space, stirring the hearts and minds and bodies of all who dare move with every morsel of her now.
-G.H.