January 16, 2007
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Self Portrait Challenge
(January’s challenge: resolutions)
(I have said it before, I do not make resolutions)
But there are always parts of me I would like to tweak
(ahem, no jokes, even though tweaking is fun)
I would like to break free a bit more; I would like to see myself as someone worth being friends with and lovable and funny and weird and good.
I would like to be a bit braver and approach those who just might be friends with me.
And maybe even those who might not.
It is all part of this life-long process of letting go.
Comments (31)
Oh man…. I hear that.
Well, I, for one, am glad I’m now friends with you!
“I would like to see myself as someone worth being friends with and lovable and funny and weird and good.
YOU are all those things
I would like to be a bit braver and approach those who just might be friends with me.”
I’m VERY glad to have met you through Xanga =)
The picture… so pretty!
*SMOOCHES* I know what you mean. And you are ALL those things, and more.
I can’t imagine that every person you meet wouldn’t want to just soak you up!
Trust me, you are a very free, good, wierdo. We all want to be friends!
That was an easy resolution… you already are these things… you just have to get the REAL LIFE world to catch on LOL Cute pic
Rachel
We never see ourselves the way we are. You are those things, as everyone has said here already. There are so many people here on xanga that I wish lived in my neighborhood. What a lovable, funny, weird, and good neighborhood that would be!
Baby, you’re the greatest!
aw, you’re so cool. and i love love love the sparkly clip.
I know exactly what you mean. This is sorta the topic of my next post as well; but, I can’t imagine anyone NOT wanting to be friends with you!
i see you like that.
Oh but you so ARE that person!!!
I have this same urge to tweak this trait as well!
Lets be friends!
I so wished you lived closer!
xo
Any person you would choose to approach would be lucky lucky lucky. I do so wish we were neighbors.
Love you~
If I lived on the acreage next to you, I would so want to come for coffee every day.
I would love that!
I second zosma’s comment. I know I could just sit and chat with you for hours while our kids ran and laughed and played. Beautiful picture!
You ARE loveable. You ARE funny. You ARE weird. You ARE good. I’m so fortunate to count you amongst my short but special list of friends.
I imagine you as someone with a gazillion friends but not a whole lot of free time to spend with them. None of us with kids and/or jobs (self employed or otherwise) has a lot of free time.
You’re talking about local friends, right? You must be!
I love you to bits. XOXOXOXOXOXOXO
what a great picture! i love love love your curls! i want to live next door too!
I’ve been inspired lately by all of the photograpy I’ve seen on xanga, and wanted to see if I could start taking better composed pictures with my little Kodak 5 megapixel. The class I sat in tonight, filled my head with all that was so foreign 33 years ago, f-stops, aperature, film speed, and ISO, and film, as to digital, and arrrrrghhhhh! I remember the rule of thirds. I learned to take portraits vertically, and to use the telephoto lens. I’ll try to take a picture of my cat without his eyes looking like he’s from outspace
no, wait…maybe he is?
Yes…more free! I want what old people have when they just say what they feel because they don’t give a damn what people think anymore. Too bad you can’t order that up san wrinkles, grey hair, and incontinence though. I picture you twirling into just what you are looking for!
Isn’t that somethin? We all yearn for our tribe… have you ever read Daniel Quinn’s “Ishmael” or “My Ishmael”? Those are books that changed my life. I finally understood so much that was already inside me…
you are mah-ve-lous…!
It is always a good thing to continually try and be a better person!
Could you hair get any better? You are really making me want to dye mine red(again) because your curls are looking too good( and i must remember mine won’t be that good!)
I MADE myself make friends,it was so hard at first but now I can’t imagine where i would be if I hadn’t. You CAN do it,your are soo likable Julie!
Well, all you have to do is look in the mirror
It’s already there.
can’t get anything with your hands closed. hurrah for letting go! but I know this isn’t news to you!!!
Letting go is tough.
Letting go IS life-long, but so worth it. Just when I think I’ve done it I find a new place where it needs to happen. But refusing to see that would be the same as becoming stagnant, and I hope that never happens—to either of us. Whether it is a resolution or not, I can see that it is a value that you hold and try to live by. It’s a good one.
yeah. that. *love*
”Weird” is very a good thing to have in a friend.