stain/
Such a negative connotation. Mar, blot, sully. How did something that started as paint and difference morph into a moral rebuke? Some of the best parts of life are messy: childbirth, good sex, slurping pasta with marinara, or a hotdog with all the fixings at a ballgame, planting vegetables, herbs to ring their edges; a hike up a mountain, or through a field, the kicked up dirt mixing with sweat, staining your socks a dull tan. Baking bread, the flour dusting the floor afte