Everyone who knows me understands my fascination with faces. I love to read and study faces because they each tell a unique and special story. To see beautiful laugh lines and smiling eyes. To witness the grief, sadness, and pain that is etched and embedded across our faces. To see years of working and playing in the sun and to see the ancestry that is passed down from face to face. Really quite extraordinary.
This ancestral component is what I found so intriguing a few weeks ago. I feel compelled to tell you about my discovery. I had the opportunity to give facials to two sisters. My first impression was that they shared similar mannerisms and humor but they couldn't have been more physically or energetically different. The first and oldest sister laid on my table and I immediately noticed a dramatic difference between the left and right sides of her face.
Lani Wallace moved to western Colorado after spending some time in New York City and Minneapolis after growing up in Nebraska. Raised in a family with both conventional and holistic/alternative medicine beliefs and professions, she has had an evolving career as an esthetician. She can be found most days pursuing her spiritual practice which includes her beloved animals, family, friends, clients and colleagues. She is currently with La Belle Amie in downtown Grand Junction and also sees clients wishing to have laser services at a local skin care clinic.
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[1] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/face-reading-beauty-us-all#comment-1355
[2] http://twitter.com/lumigrate
[3] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/face-reading-beauty-us-all#top
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[6] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/face-reading-beauty-us-all#comment-1490
[7] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/29/ap/strange/main20113289.shtml
[8] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/face-reading-beauty-us-all#comment-2251
[9] http://www.lumigrate.com/forums/integrative-medicine-parts-make-whole/therapy-occupational/functional
Comments
Erasing 'stuff' on the outside by changing what you're doing on the INSIDE of your body/mind/spirit! LOVE IT!
This is a really interesting piece, Lani, and the response to it related to the number of reads indicates I am not the only one who is interested. Having the opportunities to get to know something of what you perceive with people when you see their photograph or them in person, if you're so lucky to have that personal interaction has certainly opened my eyes to there being much more that people see and maybe aren't aware of.
I hope this sparks some people to 'open their hearts, minds and eyes' in a bit different direction.
Thank you for providing this most interesting piece! I hope you'll want to write more in the future for Lumigrate's readers/followers to enjoy! ~~ Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [2] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
Lani and I got together for lunch the other day and out of her purse, she pulled an AP article she'd seen in the local newspaper about Frank and Louie, a two faced cat that's broken the record at age 12 for living the longest with this condition. I wanted to put a link to it here, and found something on CBS News' website, which said it was a ragdoll breed, which is what Petie the OTR has three of! Petie writes in our Functional/Occupational Therapy forum mostly, but she sprinkles her comments around and FUNS it up around here.
Here's the link if anyone is interested in seeing a story about this most interesting 'different' cat with two faces. ... www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/29/ap/strange/main20113289.shtml [7]
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [2] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
Since Mardy knows my family includes three rag doll cats, she sent me the link for this piece and I'm SO glad she did... I really enjoyed reading what Lani wrote about face reading and then the link Mardy provides above for getting to the CBS News story about the Two Faced Cat. Fascinating, and I just love being part of the forums at Lumigrate and wanted to thank all the others Mardy recruits for writing here at the Forums! It gives me a place to share what I might have to offer to someone else and pick up something from someone else.
Petie
Those who read Petie's pieces at Lumigrate.com (found regularly in the forum related to therapies/functional and occupational -- link: http://www.lumigrate.com/forums/integrative-medicine-parts-m... [9]) learn she grew up in California with "Bobby" Redford and has had an interesting life from beginning to today. She graduated from USC in technical illustrating and drafting and was the first female draftsman for The Wall Street Journal in South Brunswick, New Jersey. She returned to USC to become an occupational therapist and enjoyed the 'heyday' of therapy in prestigious programs in California, and was an entrepreneur for many years. She had a daughter then adopted a son, Thomas, who she writes about regularly; they have been each others' greatest teachers, as it turns out he had developmental disabilities. Remarrying in middle age, she and her husband Bob moved to Colorado and now enjoy 'active retirement'. Petie appreciates the opportunities to continue teaching through sharing at Lumigrate and hopes those who read find as much enjoyment in reading as she does in writing.