.:fresh face:.

So I've done some remodeling to my blog. I changed the top image and the bottom right... both of which are my own creations. The new website address is www.truthinvanity.com and the new title is Truth in Vanity. The obvious, glaring question remains to be asked and answered: what does 'truth in vanity' mean?

The answer: I am subscribed to Vanity Fair and I adore the magazine. I often found myself quoting such-and-such about some news headline. When people stared at me I would respond that there is a lot of truth in the magazine! And by truth I meant both that the facts weren't incorrect and that many of the articles dealt with politics, art, philosophy--culture. Then the phrase 'truth in vanity' came to occupy my wandering thoughts. The incohorence, the irony, the irrationality of it all. Could there be a bit of truth in our vanities? Or, was truth vain? Better yet, what is vanity? According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (random I know), vanity has 2 meanings: too much pride in your own appearance, abilities or achievements; the quality of being unimportant, especially compared with other things that are important. The latter is more what I wish to convey. There is a truth in the things that seem unimportant. If this life is unimportant on a grand scheme, and therefore vain, I still believe that there are truths to gather. And, I confess, I was thinking a bit of the former. In a way I know I am vain. I love material possessions and pretty things. Vanities of vanities I adore, and there is some truth to those adorations. Truth, in the sense that those vanities are not unimportant or meaningless though that seems contradictory. Perhaps looking gorgeous is vain, but there are things to learn as a result of that vanity and that vanity is not on the whole meaningless or worse, and inquity.

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art: john atkinson grimshaw