🦴 Lovely Bones – Day 14 of #mabsdrawlloweenclub

There’s something quietly beautiful about bones. Not the spooky movie kind that rattle out of closets, but the real ones—soft ivory curves, tiny joints engineered with impossible precision, the memory of motion still humming through them like echoes in an empty hall. I always feel a hush when I see a found bone on a trail, like stepping into the remnant of a story that nature wrote long before I arrived.

Tonight, I’m thinking about how bones are our built-in time capsules. They hold shape long after everything else fades. They are both blueprint and gravestone. They carry the art of survival and the poetry of what once lived. Even the smallest vertebra or hollow bird wing feels like a cathedral of structure and silence.

Lovely bones remind me that beauty isn’t always soft or alive or decorated. Sometimes it’s stark. Bare. Honest. The architecture beneath the skin. The quiet strength that holds us together through storms and sleep and heartbreak. We only notice them when something goes wrong – but they’ve always been working, steadfast guardians, day after day.

I imagine a skeleton dancing – joyful, clattering, free of weight – and I laugh a little. Even stripped down, we still have rhythm. Maybe lovely bones are a reminder: beneath everything, we’re stronger than we think. And strangely elegant, in our own rattly way.

Here’s to bones – hidden supports, natural sculptures, moon-pale reminders that even after life moves on, form and memory can linger. Lovely, indeed.


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