Beauty is Imperfection

(Originally posted Monday, September 22, 2008 )

What’s in the stock photos that are describing your world to you today?

–*Wall Street trader puts hand against forehead.

–*A shot of the Morgan Stanley name in etched glass with the reflection of a little girl.

–*Three girls and one guy laughing in front of a college dormitory.

–*A polar bear trapped on an ice floe

–*A BlackBerry in a toilet

–*Angry Muslims with their hands raised in the air

–*Static electricity

–*A black swan

–*Nickels, dimes and quarters

–*A black woman in a pant suit

–*A white Alaskan in suspenders eating chili

–*A row of Emmys

–*Palms in a violent wind

–*A woman holding textbooks and a baby

–*Cocaine on a glass table

–*Poker chips

–*Pamela Anderson

–*A snow machine ridden by a man wearing a hat with ear flaps

–*A frog wearing a hat with ear flaps

–*Moose

–*A picture of a library and Sarah Palin

–*A rig bursting at the seams with oil

–*A man with glasses inspecting an electric car

–*A shot of the original O.J. Simpson trial

–*Yankees stadium with a waning gibbous moon at dusk in the background

–*Pamela Anderson with a waning gibbous moon at dusk in the background

–*Merrill Lynch with a waning gibbous moon at dusk in the background

–*Viagra

–*Shark meat on a glass table

–*Dollars, euros, yen and other things you soon won’t have