“it doesn’t happen all at once,” said the skin horse. “you become. it takes a long time. that’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby, but these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. ”
– the velveteen rabbit
photo: Polaroid.net
a flash of delight 
oh Vanessa, thank you for that post! I am thinkin a think that I should buy that wonderful book “The Velveteen Rabbit”, for Brooklyn…. :)
great photo + quote. love it. and so glad you found that japanese tape. yay for simple pleasures!