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 […]
Tag: self-love
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 […]
Same Body, Second Glance: Day Nineteen
July 19, 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 Eighteen
July 18, 2014 This morning when I woke up, there was a pool of blazing sunlight at the bottom of the stairs. I stepped into it the way you ease into a sauna, and I snapped this picture. Makes me smile… ❤ /// This post is part of a series. To read more, click here.