i was topless on a beach once....

two little words

that can mean everything

~

i've noticed that on photo shoots with girls entering their senior year of high school

when they ask me what to do with their hands or their legs

i always say

"what feels comfortable?"

"just be yourself"

~

"be yourself"

reminds all of us

that we are who we are

and

that it's a waste of time trying to be anything other than that

~

being yourself

is something

nobody can take away

i've never had long hair

but

in the past few weeks

my hair has actually been long enough to pull back into a ponytail

~

now granted it's a ponytail that a real pony would be embarrassed to have

~a mutant ponytail of sorts~

but

a ponytail none the less

i have a dear sweet friend who is a spiritual counselor.

the very first day we met, she told me i had fairy wings. now granted, some people might have run away from a woman like that and never looked back, but i took that as a huge compliment. i've never asked her what having fairy wings actually means, but i believe it's something good. the other day i had my hair in a ponytail when i went to pick her up for lunch and she said with my hair like that, my fairy wings were even brighter than usual. when we sat down to eat, at a round table surrounded by windows, she said "i swear your fairy wings are just larger than life today and if i opened up this window next to me you'd fly away."

i also took that as a compliment

and

smiled

i was topless once

on a topless beach in aruba

~

now granted

i took my top off in an area where nobody else could see me

and

had my hubby take a few photos in case i ever had to prove what i had done

but

i was topless

~

i found this photo today

over here

and

kind of guiltily fell in love with it

~

and

now i have to confess something

~

i want a photo of me

just like this one

~

i don't care what pier or dock i'm on

or

what state or country i'm in

~

all i know

is that i want a photo of me

just like this one

and

to be honest

it wouldn't get tucked away with the aruba photos

nope

a photo like this

i'd be really proud of

and

it would be framed with love

{if i could rip it out of my hubby's hands}

~

now

how about a confession

~

would you have your photo taken like this

or

am i the kind of woman you want to run away from now

thinking "sheesh, she's a crazy one for even asking me that question"