i've never been a big fan of joe cocker's ballad, "you are so beautiful."
it's those two little qualifying words unnecessarily tacked onto the end of what might have been a fabulous compliment: "you are so beautiful... to me."
i'm sure i'm in the minority here, and perhaps i'm just a really grumpy person. but i've always imagined the lyrics look something like this:
you are so beautiful!!!*
*to me. everyone else politely tries to focus on your great personality.
anyway. i've never had occasion to share these thoughts with my seven year-old daughter.
so when she came into the kitchen this morning, dressed-up in so many layers of princess garb and plastic jewelry that she looked like madame bonbon from the nutcracker, i laughed and burst into song:
"you are so beautiful... to me!" (it was true!)
to my absolute joy and maternal pride, she furrowed her little eyebrows at me and retorted with conviction,
"now that is just insulting."
that's my girl!
