July 29, 2014 This evening I sit on the back steps, listen to the hum of the locusts, watch the sun fading to pink behind the blue hills. I push two fingers into my throat and feel the steady throb of my pulse in the jugular … rhythm old as time. My choices have […]
Tag: contemplative
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Twenty-Eight
July 28, 2014 Today was one of the most gorgeous, light-filled mornings we’ve had in awhile. The air was breezy and cool against the window screens, as golden as a glass of lemonade. I stretched out like a cat in a pool of sun on our jute rug and just tried to soak it all […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Twenty-Seven
July 27, 2014 Today, I’m doing something different and posting myself in filterless full-color (in addition to my usual black and white): By now, you guys have figured out that I really love seeing things in monochrome. It feels meditative and revealing, an honest way of presenting my usual state of mind here. It also […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Twenty-Six
July 26, 2014 Today my husband and I spent the day wandering around our local art museum, looking at plenty of fabulous textures and lines. But you know what? Today I have the courage to believe that I am a pretty magnificent work of art myself — imperfections, asymmetry, dark circles and all. And believing […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Twenty-Five
July 25, 2014 Texture, pattern, line … and Light. ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for forty days, I’d take *one* photograph of my body that I could honestly see as […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Twenty-Four
July 24, 2015 Looking for beauty in my ordinary, workaday life… ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for forty days, I’d take *one* photograph of my body that I could honestly […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Twenty-Three
July 23, 2014 /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for forty days, I’d take *one* photograph of my body that I could honestly see as beautiful. Want to follow my journey? Start here.}}
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Twenty-Two
July 22, 2014 The darkness & the light … ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for forty days, I’d take *one* photograph of my body that I could honestly see as […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Twenty-One
July 21, 2014 I am learning that my body is both a book of history and a work in progress. And believing this — that the body *is* something rather than merely *looking* like something — is, actually, a deliberate countercultural act. ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Twenty
July 20, 2015 My favorite way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon … curled up on the couch against the big bay window… dreaming… ❤ /// {{Wondering what’s going on here?? Almost a year ago, I found myself on bad terms with the person in the mirror. So I made a commitment: every day for […]
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