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Lauren

Self esteem is so worth it.

Today I finished a book titled Miss Invisible. It's an easy read but a must read for anyone who needs a little pick-me up or encouragement. Do you ever find yourself looking down upon really "skinny" or really "fat" people? I use quotations because who is to decide what is "skinny" or "fat"? Every...

Glass Cat

All Cats Are Loved

Most of you can probably recall my mentioning that from time to time, I will actually Google myself. As I understand it, a lot of people do -- especially if they have work they're putting out there into cyberspace and wanting to keep tabs on. Mostly I do it because I just want to see what comes up,...

Kenya

The Souls of Black Girls

Originally published at Kenya Allmond: In My Own Words. You can comment here or there. I had the opportunity to attend screening of The Souls of Black Girls as a part of the Urban Film Series last night. The film produced by Daphne Valerius questions whether women of color suffer from a self image...

Mariposa

The Mirror Has Two Faces

So I was perusing Weight Watchers, trying to get up the motivation to maintain logging my points. I have been down on myself lately, and I have been obsessing about the little things, or what I perceive to be big things, in the mirror. I was good yesterday ... even with the pizza and sangria I...

Nacwolin

Me and my morning brew

This is not an easy photo for me to post. It is completely raw - post shower, no makeup, very early morning. I almost never go anywhere without makeup or doing my hair. But it's me and part of the point of starting this group was to help me get over the idea that I have to look/be "perfect" to post...

Glass Cat

Heard

I heard a line from a movie once, although I can’t rightly recall which one it was just now. "Isn’t everything we do just a way to be loved a little more?" I don’t know about "loved". I’m hardly a wizened, wrinkled guru of a human being yet, but I’ve seen a few things, and I’ve known...

Glass Cat

Juilet of the Spirits

I like to do a self portrait every so often as a way of touching base with myself as far as personal growth goes, but lately I’ve been hard pressed for concepts that really appealed to me. Then I rediscovered Albrecht Durer’s beautiful, and very famous, self portrait which actually turned into...