Self Portrait 365|16
If had any say in it, I’d walk around like this all the time. I feel fierce and strong, but still feminine and beautiful.
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Self Portrait 365|15
I was born too late to be a real hippie. In the 60s and 70s I was only a child, but I remember wearing long paisley dresses, layers of bracelets and headbands.
Self Portrait 365|14
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the… Read More
Self Portrait 365|13
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.
Self Portrait 365|12
I look way too put together in this photo, as though I were heading off for a job interview in a corporate office. Someone needs to mess up my straight hair. I’m much more dishevelled than this image portrays.
Self Portrait 365|11
I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas.
Self Portrait 365|10
You, who have left behind the confusion of your youth, now stare at a future shorter than your past. You hear the call of the desert, the relentless beating of the hot sun, the crisp dry sand beneath your feet.
Self Portrait 365|9
I see taking a self-portrait as something that counteracts the ‘inner gaze’. By taking a photo of a moment frozen in time, we are given the opportunity to view ourselves from the outside — to contemplate the ordinary and familiar as a work of art, and a thing of unique beauty.
Self Portrait 365|6
This is the first time I’ve had long hair in my adult life, except for when I grew it long for my wedding a hundred years ago and got it cut off the week after. As someone who isn’t acquainted with long hair, I’ve discovered a few things I didn’t know.
Self Portrait 365|4
I hated every single photo I took today. I don’t know if it was my hair, or the way I was feeling, but I just look bloated and old in every frame.
Self Portrait 365|2
I see so much beauty in the world, sometimes so much I worry that I’ll explode from the joy it brings. But when it comes to myself … not so much.
The Self Portrait • a demonstration of self-acceptance
What if taking a self-portrait helped me accept who I am and what I look like?
The idea seemed feasible. Totally feasible but completely scary.
The Best Dinner in the History of the Universe Ever
I don’t normally take photos of food, but this was so exquisite and so beautiful I wanted to remember it forever.