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CHARLESTON, SC “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” Charles Dickens March comes in big, like a lion, and its roars bring sudden big blooms of periwinkle and fuchsia. The azaleas color our world in the South, they hang in there while we’re predicting when the next cold front will arrive, or can we call this spring yet? We bundle up in chilly mornings and shed layers throughout the day as the mercury rises in the afternoon hours. Time to think about that pedicure and open-toed shoes, time to drive home with the sunroof open, time for the pollen and breezy afternoons when the wind whispers, “Spring has sprung.” This is the big time when the summer heat is still weeks away and we can walk the streets without breaking a sweat, stop and pause long enough to see the time lapse of leaves budding on bare trees. The soothsayer’s warning to Julius Caesar, “Beware the Ides of March,” in Shakespeare’s tragedy imbued that date with a sense of foreboding, but it’s just the 15th on the Roman calendar and we prefer to celebrate it as the Romans did— by indulging in wine, song and celebration. This is a time of good hair days, wind whip- ping our skirts, evenings just chilly enough for a light sweater, time for outdoors, for new buds turned blooms, the bright sky that reminds us of how small we are in this big old world, and the brand new green grass that’s made for lying on your back and looking for shapes in clouds chugging by as the world keeps turning, turning, turning. ESCAPE THE ORDINARY Cover Art: Jackie Besteman MARCH FREE
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  • C h a r l e s t o n , s C

    It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

    Charles Dickens

    March comes in big, like a lion, and its roars

    bring sudden big blooms of periwinkle and

    fuchsia. The azaleas color our world in

    the South, they hang in there while were

    predicting when the next cold front will

    arrive, or can we call this spring yet? We

    bundle up in chilly mornings and shed layers

    throughout the day as the mercury rises in

    the afternoon hours. Time to think about

    that pedicure and open-toed shoes, time to

    drive home with the sunroof open, time for

    the pollen and breezy afternoons when the

    wind whispers, Spring has sprung. This is

    the big time when the summer heat is still

    weeks away and we can walk the streets

    without breaking a sweat, stop and pause

    long enough to see the time lapse of leaves

    budding on bare trees. The soothsayers

    warning to Julius Caesar, Beware the Ides

    of March, in Shakespeares tragedy imbued

    that date with a sense of foreboding, but its

    just the 15th on the Roman calendar and we

    prefer to celebrate it as the Romans did

    by indulging in wine, song and celebration.

    This is a time of good hair days, wind whip-

    ping our skirts, evenings just chilly enough

    for a light sweater, time for outdoors, for

    new buds turned blooms, the bright sky

    that reminds us of how small we are in this

    big old world, and the brand new green

    grass thats made for lying on your back and

    looking for shapes in clouds chugging by as

    the world keeps turning, turning, turning.

    e s C a p e t h e o r D I n a r y

    Cover art: Jackie Besteman

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    BIGwedge We love our high heels, but not the pain that makes us kick them off before we hit the dance floor. These cork wedge Coclico sandals from King Street Shoes add about three inches in height, but the platform sole is almost as comfortable as our favorite flats and the exposed side zipper makes them perfect for casual or fancy events.

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    BIGStyleBig spaces deserve big pieces, like this couch from Celadon and this chandelier from Candelabra. Nap, anyone?

    BIGFANSWine plus education about our favorite beverage? Were in! Mira Winery has just opened the Napa Valley Education Center and Tasting Room (NVEC) in Charleston. NVEC provides unique access to the wine industry through education and tasting programs, and the opportunity to experience Napa Valley and the world of winemaking through interactive displays, wine club member EduTastings, videos and classes. Open weekly Wednesday through Saturday from 2 - 5p.m. MiraNapa.com.

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    have a dire confession to make: Im aging.Yes, indeed. The ravages of time are absolutely, categorically

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    Honestly, I had no huge issue about agingthat is, until I was recently on the receiving end of a loaded question, which could have been innocuous (although I didnt take it as such as the time it was posed to me) and a remark that clearly wasnt. I thought as long as I took care of myself, aging would be a breeze. Maybe Id be lucky and no one would notice. Ha!

    The first instance came when a former male co-worker/friend whom I hadnt seen in a few years asked me point blank in a text the day after we met over coffee how old I was. I was baffled by the question considering I had known him for a long while and thought he probably knew. When I tried to joke my way out of it, he persisted, even approximating an age that he thought I probably was.

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    What made his question about my age especially hurtful, even if he hadnt intended to fire a verbal dart at me, was that prior to my seeing him I had just come from my graduate school reunion, feeling really good about myself. Not only did I reconnect with a few old classmates but I was looking especially pulled together. Or so I thought.

    My hair, newly re-touched and perfectly blown dried, had not a grey in sight. The nascent lines that were starting to groove around my mouth had been temporarily banished thanks to cosmetic fillers. My teeth were whitened due to dental bleaching and the flurry of whiteheads that dotted my

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    I basked in that afterglow; then my erstwhile associate threw that question, like a cyber-gauntlet, at me. Throwing down my iPhone, I felt humiliated, my ego flattened into smithereens. So much for all that tweaking to keep the obvious signs of aging at bay.

    But even if I am aging, which, of course, I am, so what? Its not like I committed a cardinal offense. I didnt murder or molest anyone. Im just getting older. You would think, having had friends who died young (and relatives whose lives were cut short in the Holocaust) that some might consider the act of getting older to be a gift. I guess not.

    Another instance that for me highlighted the disdain our culture, especially women, have about aging, was when a friend of my mothers, who is notorious for speaking without any filter, reprimanded me for looking really old. And because of this unacceptable breach, I had lost my looks, she added.

    The catalyst for her outburst was my slim frame (which Ive had most of my life) and which she felt was the root cause of my appearing Jurassic. (Incidentally, the woman is older than me and about 50 pounds heavier.) Infuriated by her flagrant lack of couth and sensitivity, I let her have it and have not spoken to her since.

    Later on, I wondered, was it really my slightness that set off the proverbial mean girl in my mothers friend? Or is it because Im

    obviously aging and in seeing that in me, someone who is younger than her, she is only too sadly and odiously reminded

    that time wont pass her by either?The aversion we have to aging is an unfortunate corollary

    to our singular obsession with youth. Seriously, do we really want to be 21 forever? When I was that age, my daily almanac was comprised of unending bad decisions made in the full flush of callow ignorance. Clearly youth is overrated.

    Oh sure, there wasnt a crease on my face or any pestilent grey growing unimpeded in my hair. Plus, my ability to stay up until 5 a.m. every day was unparalleled.

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    sensible adult. Now Im not. Why is experience-based wisdom considered so expendable when juxtaposed with glossily youthful stupidity? Is it because as we get older we get closer to another taboodeath? I think so.

    Bette Davis once said getting older isnt for sissies. She was right but that

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    as Seth G. and comparisons to Kenny G dont bother him at all. My father is a huge jazz fan and Kenny was one of the first jazz musicians to

    break into the mainstream, says Seth. My parents were extremely supportive of my interest in music. With a background that includes a stint

    as concertmaster of the Furman Symphony Orchestra and a soloist for the Anderson and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, Seth first picked up

    a violin at Ashley River Creative Arts School and his classical training continued through private lessons in high school. Alongside his classical and

    jazz experience, Seth now has a budding career as a contemporary violinist, releasing a mixtape of his most popular covers and an EP of original

    pop songs. He is currently working on another mixtape as well as his debut album. This year is his second as CSO Artist in Residence and he loves

    giving presentations at local schools to introduce young students to contemporary classical music.

    See him in person on Thursday evenings at O-Ku and visit SethGMusic.com to see where Seth will be playing

    and his latest videos and music downloads.

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  • really had no intention of bursting into tears in the drive-through that rainy November evening. Honestly. I was just picking up some take-out for school spirit night at our local Chick-fil-A. But it had been a long day. Work was an endless mass of papers to grade, the kids had been bickering all afternoon, my husband wouldnt be home from his night class for several more hours, and I had a headache. Again.

    From the backseat, my daughters were heatedly discussing the rightful ownership of a toy that had been rolling around in the floorboard all week and my four-year-old son was trying to weigh in on the matter, loudly interjecting Mine! or Not its not! whenever he felt there was a lag in the conversation. I turned on the radio, hoping a musical interlude would divert their attention away from their proprietary debate. No such luck, I thought as the broadcast station launched into a news report.

    Next up, the announcer began, a new video shows how 50 people responded to just one question: If you could change one thing about your body, what would it be? Im pretty sure I laughed out loud. What would I change about my body? Just one thing?

    Let me count the ways: Eyes. Hands. Horsey smile. Hips like the Himalayas. Stomach, stomach, stomach. The unabridged catalog of my nominees for bodily imperfection is long and all-encompassing. In fact, Id be doing well to limit them to just the categories of form and function.

    This question was especially sensitive for me coming as it was at a time when not only I had been experiencing a myriad of health problems but was also still in the midst of what I call my accordion yearsthe better part of a decade when my body was in a continual state of flux, ever expanding and contracting to accommodate the carrying and birthing of my three wonderful children, who were then so spiritedly populating the backseat of the car.

    As the radio announcer rolled the audio track, it quickly became clear that I was not the only one with an index of insecurities. The adult participants for this interview project

    were all quick to reveal at least one area of dissatisfaction. Listening to their responses, I could feel my throat closing up a little more with the airing of each grievance, an array of perceived flaws, head to toe.

    What would adults change about their bodies if they could? My ears. Id like to be taller. My skin. My forehead. Bigger eyes. One respondent laughed and queried: Just one? Which is, of course, precisely what I had just been thinking about myself.

    That is when the tears started. Because who among us does not have some notion of what it takes to be beautifuland a very keen understanding of how we dont measure up? Who among us really feels beautiful, really feels complete, really feels comfortable in our own skin?

    But adults numbered only half of those interviewed. Children made up the other half, and their answers were very different. What would children change about their bodies if they could? Just one thing? A sharks mouth. To eat a lot. Extra pointy ears. Wings. Legs to run fast like a cheetah. A mermaids tail. One child laughed and said: I dont think theres anything to change. Another responded, I like my body actually.

    And upon hearing those answersthe fanciful enhancement, the innocent contentment, the happy satisfactionthat is when I really let loose with the tears, right there in the drive-thru, bawling to beat the band. Because who among us would tell these children any differently? Are they not fearfully and wonderfully made? Are they not dazzling creatures, just as they are, confident and radiant and unashamed, a

    many-splendored wonder of unique design? Are they not the very portrait of unabashed beauty? Are not we also?

    We, the self-same individuals, who as teachers, neighbors, parents, tell our children that they are indeed beautiful, that they are indeed loved, that they are indeed whole, just as they are, nothing added, nothing changed, nothing taken away.

    We who tell our children that everyone is different and that everyone is beautiful and strong in their own way, in their own time. What is it we are telling ourselves?

    Unlike the grown-ups, the children did not have a ready answer for how they would change their bodies. Even after giving the question a few moments of contemplation,

    their answers did not indicate an assessment of shortcomings or a comparison of themselves

    to other children.They did not wish to change or

    discard any feature they already had. They responded with embellishments, wanting only to add on to what was already theirs. A way to make the satisfactory extraordinary. To do so they did not even look to humankind

    at all. They looked instead to the realm of the wild or the fantastic. Wings. A

    sharks mouth. Extra pointy ears.I admit I am nowhere close to meeting any

    idealized standard of beauty, and Im certainly a long way from calling myself beautiful, especially when

    Im sobbing in the drivers seat of a minivan. But I am ready for good enough. Im ready for satisfactory and the extraordinary.

    Im ready for a better answer. If I could change one thing about my body, what would it be? Just one thing? A mermaids tail. Definitely.

    Hilary Brooke HallJUST A MERMAIDS TAIL

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    Hilary Brooke Hall lives with her family in North Carolina, where she teaches Southern cultureand blogs about it at idesandinklings.wordpress.com. Until the day she gets it all together,

    she is leaning on the Lord (and Dr. Pepper). Hilary has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in English from North Carolina State University.

    Who among us really feels beautiful,

    really feels complete, really feels comfortable in our

    own skin?

    If I could change one thing about my body, what would

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