Monday
Aug102009
seeking kindness and truth
Monday, August 10, 2009 at 9:57AM 
I'm doing everything I can to be kind to myself these days. Seeking comfort, acceptance and love from myself, to myself is a good start. Reminding myself a number of times each day that I am enough. I can't imagine that something that seems like it should be a given can be so hard to believe and embrace.
Discoveries I make through my lens can help me see it at it should be seen. My camera is a true friend like that.
What do you believe? I hope it's that you too are enough...just as you are. Be gentle on yourself. You deserve it.
What kind of things are you seeing? Do share. It is Monday after all.
Reader Comments (20)
mine is about sheer joy:
joy
I'm sharing some fun with a different type of true friend. You know, the ones who have always been there when maybe just maybe you are not quite enough on your own? Those kind of friends.
I'm also sharing a new photography project. Maybe some of you will join me?
I looked up and realized this weekend - why do I never take pictures of the people around me? Not just my kid, I mean. So that's my best shot this week. Some of the beauty I saw when I looked up.
Farmers' Market
I have been absent lately and I have even moved my blog since I last posted BSM. I am loving your new outlook Tracey I think I need to adapt it myself. For now here is my shot. http://simplyblogged.blogspot.com/2009/08/best-shot-monday.html
OOOPs I forgot about the html here is my BSM
Good reminder, Tracey...It's tough for me not to be hard on myself...
b&w
what I'm seeing and photographing today ?
a wonderful old house and all its out buildings that just blew my mind with beauty....
I've got a senior photo shoot this week and guess where I'm taking her ??
a perfect shooting location is the best year round christmas present ever...don't you think ?
what? you have difficulty believing you are enough?? wow - i guess everyone has these feelings sometimes, 'cause i think you're great! what am i seeing? just the waves of heat rising from the pavement...yuck!
Thanks to the power of Facebook (lol), I will be attending an impromptu reunion tomorrow with my old Sheriff Dept. coworkers. I've been hemming and hawing at going because I feel so inadequate: I'm not skinny enough, I have a few gray hairs, etc. I haven't seen these people in 25 yrs.! Then last night when my husband asked if I've decided to go or not, I told him I wasn't happy with me and I didn't really want everyone seeing me now. His response? Just go and be you. You're better now then you were then. You'll be enough. This from a man. Who knew?! So, I'm going to be kind to myself because really? I am enough. And yes, I'm going. lol
Wow, powerful words.
Here's my best shot for today.
First visit here, Hope I can join in!
lovely post! after a long absence... my best shot is really all about taking care of myself... in the most delicious sort of way!
In my best shot, I gave it my best shot:
Exactly How I Do Not Look When I Ski
Oh dear heart sister, I am trying to be gentle with myself.
BSM
The softness of these petals is a beautiful symbol of gentleness.
I found a way to keep me in a peaceful state when I am out of sorts...my BSM is all about gliding on water close to my home.
I love the way you write Tracey you truly have a gift with words and expression. Love the blurred petals and then the one petal in focus. so simple ...
am loving the trail of pink petals. your posts always inspire me. seeking kindness and truth in my own backyard...realizing this has to be okay/enough for now.
xo
your words run parallel with mine this day Tracey...thanks for the honesty you so freely give....
What a lovely sentiment -- my joy today is coming across posts like these. A needed reminder.
You can't begin to know (well, actually, you probably can...) how much I needed to read that this morning....
miss you xo K
Awww, this picture looks like it could be on a greeting card. Just lovely