not beautiful

"People in Ukraine are still suffering, they are still hiding in shelters, still bleeding in trenches. Ukraine needs sanctions on Russia, not beautiful words."

“The beautiful thing about it — well, losing to them is not beautiful — but when you experience a game against them or any other team that forces you to do something different, it allows you to add something to the war chest. And allows you to get better in different areas.”

And there’s so many young women like myself who are going through those same things now — who feel that they’re not beautiful, who feel that they’re not smart enough, who feel like because they went through something, it’s over.

“It’s not beautiful at all. It’s kind of a horrible green,” she says by phone.

I have been searching for toyon ever since Evan Meyer of the Theodore Payne Foundation — the guy who told me jacarandas are not beautiful to native L.A. creatures — also turned me on to these tree-like shrubs or shrub-like trees.