What is REAL?

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

 

~my favorite part of my favorite children's book, The Velveteen Rabbit

 

This one was harder to share than I thought it would be, but here it is. I have wanted to do this for quite awhile now. To be honest, it was a much better idea before I actually saw the photo. Yikes. I may take this down later. For now, I am going to go talk to some food about the unsightly condition of my backside.

Done