This 2016, I resolve to
accomplish my resolution of 2015
that I made in 2014.
Anurag Prakash Ray
A delicious new year of possibilities and beginnings, Everyone! Another golden opportunity to see ourselves with more gentle kindness and greater love. What brave adventures will you say YES to in 2016?
In an era when looking younger than our age is the ideal, Carre Otis shares her journey of self acceptance as role model to her young daughters in A Sisterhood of Inner Beauty (on Huffington Post:)
I’ve learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained. I’ve learned to watch my words, too, particularly around my daughters — two of my greatest teachers — doing my best not to gossip about other women or even myself. If they were to hear me put some of those seemingly automatic thoughts on loudspeaker, such as, “I look bad today… Look at those bags under my eyes…” I now understand that it would impact them in a profoundly unhealthy way. Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.
I’m proud that today, at 43 years old, I’ve come to value the aging process and anticipate growing older with a sense of excitement. I want my daughters to see their mother fearlessly and gracefully claiming her body, her voice and her years. Easier said than done, of course. For me, it’s required discipline: Just as I’m careful about what my daughters are exposed to, I avoid magazines that critique what female celebrities are wearing, what they’re buying and what they look like. I skip right past channels that exploit “cat fights” or reality shows. And I’ve learned to walk away from any real-life judgmental conversations about women. They bring me down. They bring us all down.
And Goddess knows how powerful we can be when we feel good about ourselves! I wish you a most magical year of reveling in your womanhood at any age. Click on “Leave a Comment” (top left) to share what new possibilities thrill you.
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Jan 07, 2016 @ 09:38:28
Once again Sharon!, your timing is perfect. Last week while dining and having a conversation the subject of Star Wars and Carrie Fisher came up. I had read and heard about people in the media being critical of how (badly, their opinion) she has aged. This bothered me and made me think of how shallow and unkind people can be. I truly hope the people that are so unkind in their open opinions suffer the hurt in the future that they make others feel with thoughtless comments–as they age, hopefully badly! A day or two later Carrie Fisher posted on FB…”Please stop debating about whether or not I aged well. Youth and beauty are not accomplishments, they’re the temporary happy bi-products of time and/or DNA. Don’t hold your breath for either.”
I love your photo shoot and effects. Photo five…let the leaves fall where they may! 😉
Mountain
Jan 14, 2016 @ 10:19:53
Happy to hear–
I live to please, Mountain!