Today's Grab Bag of Thoughts

So a couple of days ago ( I had to cool down before I posted)  this image and the following story.  Why?  Because I felt that it spoke to me.  Living in the world we live in today we are inundated with pictures of extremely skinny women and we are told that they are not only "healthy" but "beautiful." Which could cause a not extremely skinny or even a skinny person to feel bad about how they look.  More on that after you read this the facebook message I posted.  Please note: This is not my pic or me and these are not my words A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"  The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:  "Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.   They enterta