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February 10, 2010 5:38 PM- new skin, baby


five years ago today

Because he is a carpenter, my husband has small brown vials here and there around the house. In the little glass bottle is a liquid with a brush that you schmear across the kinds of slices and cuts on your finger(s) that a band-aid can do nothing for. It's called New Skin and it seems to want to be my new best friend.


five years ago today

My hands, they are not looking so pretty. On the left we've got three burns, a knuckle scrape and a sliced middle finger that has a deep paper cut precisely across the top of the finger . . you know, the exact point with which you type. On the right I have a rectangle of raised flesh from a bad burn I got on the door of the woodstove. The burns are a whole lot less trouble than the cuts which tend to want to pour blood everywhere and yet defy the help of a willing band-aid.

It's particularly fun right now as I handle people's registrations and leave splatters of blood across them. I mean, seriously-- it's all well and good to say you put blood, sweat & tears into an enterprise-- but does my body have to take it so damn literally? I ask you---


five years ago today

So this liquid stuff smells rank. It has a pungent note somewhere between diesel fuel and whale puke. And in this moment, it's all I can smell because the smoodgy gel is peppered across both of my hands which are at just the perfect angle to waft the fragrance up to me.

Another use for this little potion? It will clear your sinuses, STAT. (And if you didn't need your sinuses to feel like they were filled with icy helium? Well-- hmm, I'll have to get back to you on that)


five years ago today

But listen to me whinge-- or, rather, don't. Put a stopper in that bottle and shut me up.

The fact is, I find it funny that tomorrow is my birthday and I'm covered in New Skin. Yeah, I'm queer like that.

Mostly though? I look at these pictures from five years ago and think holy hell what worlds we have wrought in that small amount of time. So much can be done in a year-- such ground can be covered-- transformation on every level.

At my age, if I were the conventional type, I would be making jokes about my sagging breasts, wrinkled face and creaking knees, but I just don't feel any of that at all.

I am suffused with wonder. I have never been so awake or so keenly conscious of how this world around us is entirely of our own making-- and it's so. damn. cool; it makes me feel like a little kid . . .completely entranced by the leaves scampering across the driveway and utterly unaware that it's cold out and I should have a jacket on.

Bisous, E

P.S. : Part of my morning . . .



got 2 cents?



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Ashwini says:
Happy Birthday Liz. I have been reading your blog from 2007, and have read every post before that. I love what you have created around you and inside you over the years,you are my inspiration. will bake a cake today. Cheers... Ashwini
posted on: February 10

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Megsie says:
Oh, happy, happy birthday to you! I wish you nothing but happiness and joy! I am sorry about your hands, but I love the new skin thing. I hope I can have me some new skin this year too. I, for one, am so very glad you were born. Cheers!
posted on: February 10

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Bethany says:
I just have one question: How DO you know what whale puke smells like? You are a woman of talents both surprising and many, BP.
posted on: February 11

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laura says:
HAPPY HAPPY Birthday to you sweet Elizabeth! Sending cheery smiles & love your way...Laura
posted on: February 11

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lizardek says:
The whole planet sparkles with new skin when YOU have a birthday. Happy happy happy, dearest BP!! Love & RKTs!
posted on: February 11

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bp says:
ASHWINI!!!! I am so glad to see you here-- I missed you and wondered if you drifted away because I am such a bad commenter-- but no, you are just a quiet reader-- just like me! heee-- thank you for the love and the CAKE!! yum--
posted on: February 11

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Jazz says:
Whale puke? How does one get to know the smell of whale puke? Oh, Bethany already asked that. Well then, Happy Birthday, though everyone has said that too. I'm not very original today.
posted on: February 11

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Michelle Shopped says:
was reading michelle's blog in the blog it forward mash-up and saw her happy birthday to you so figured i'd skip over to blue poppy too, when i saw the new skin title i knew where this was going! happy birthday...what's totally mondo bizarro? in my writing journal yesterday i wrote a symbolic piece about skin...
posted on: February 11

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tinker says:
Amazing what those hands can do! Just look at the house that BP and T built... I remember first finding your blog around that time period and being in total awe. Still am. You manifest like nobody else. Shedding the old and growing new skin - is that snake medicine to balance the mouse medicine of a few weeks ago? Wishing you fast healing, fabulous manifesting and a very happy birthday!
posted on: February 11

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gretchen says:
Happiest of birthdays, dearest Elizabeth. Even on your special day you continue to share your gifts with us- and i for one am SO very grateful. Thank you, thank you thank you, for all you do- we are so blessed to have you in our lives! xoxo- gretchen
posted on: February 11

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Susan Dean says:
Happy happy birthday Elizabeth!! Isn't it a wonderful feeling to feel that life is full of wonder, and that there are so many exciting things out there. I owe a lot of my feeling to you and last year at SAW which is pretty wierd when you think of at least part of my experience there. BUT all in all I agree that life can be exciting even though my breast are sagging much more than yours will ever imagine!!!
posted on: February 11

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linda e says:
HaPpY BiRtHdAy my queen! wishing you the very best that the universe has to offer, plus extra sprinkles on top!
posted on: February 11

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Lizardmom says:
Happy Belated Birthday Wishes! The best birthdays are the ones where you don't notice the years. The pics of your building project amaze me even more when I remember how wonderful your home is now.
posted on: February 11

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Karen D says:
I know that new skin smell so well, my husband works on planes so he is always using it on his hands.. What fun watching the pups romp in the woods with you. Wishing you a happy birthday!
posted on: February 11

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Margaret says:
New skin is great stuff! My carpenter husband didn't introduce me to it though; it was our gymnast daughter. They use it all the time. I love your snowy photos. Nous n'avons pas de neige cette annee. :)
posted on: February 11

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