It’s Raining It’s Pouring but Life is Never Boring

(our last two days in pictures)

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Jesse discovered that paint and glitter make a living glove

(he’s so “glam”)

 

Roo discovered blue

 

we went out for ice cream because it was raining because we LOVE IT!!!

 

(never eat any amount larger than your own skull)

 

I drooled over the salt shaker at Dairy Whip

 

when the rain stopped, we blew bubbles and chased them

 

we praised the sun

 

I discovered an exercise in patience

 

and admired the pansies 

 

The earth was damp and I could smell the root of everything.

What did you discover today?

 

 “It’s the way to educate your eyes. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

Die knowing something. You are not here long.”

~Walker Evans

 

 

 

 

May Self Portrait Challenge

 

theme: introduce yourself

 

“The truth isn’t always beauty,

but the hunger for it is.”

~Nadine Gordimer

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I am a 37 years old.

 I have spent the majority of my life avoiding the camera because I felt I was not worthy.

Now I am learning to take pictures of myself.

I am learning to really view my own self;  this skin, these eyes, these lines, 

the soft parts, the flint

and I am seeing my own ever-changing truth.