Appearance

Shakira talking about her child poverty initiative

"We are a people obsessed with appearance, with image, with looking good, with being good-looking.  For us today, by and large, it is more important to look good than to be good, to look healthy than to be healthy, to say the right things than to do the right things, to be connected to the right persons than to be the right persons, and to be perceived as having character than to actually have character."

 - Ron Rolheiser

The full article is just a bit longer, and a "great read" if I do say so myself.  Very thoughtful and balanced writing style.  Me likey.

Thanks to Dave McDonald for pointing me towards Mr. Rolheiser's blog.