Tonight in Beirut (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
― Marilyn Monroe
After spending the afternoon volunteering at St. Jude’s, I needed to take a walk. Every week, I like to get some fresh air after playing for hours with the kids to help me decompress. Tonight on my walk through Beirut, I kept running into Marilyn Monroe–in places where I least expected to find her.
Nothing lasts forever, so live it up; drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the bullshit. Take chances and never have regrets because, at one point, everything you did was exactly what you wanted.
― Marilyn Monroe
Since beauty is so highly prized in Lebanon, the plastic surgery capital of the world, I shouldn’t have been so surprised to see Marilyn’s face plastered all over two new restaurants in Beirut. But Marilyn fancied herself as much more than just a pretty face–and some of her quotes on politics seem just as relevant today, as when she spoke them so many decades ago…
I’m for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It’s really tragic.
― Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn in Beirut (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
