« A Diner in Central PA | Main | Three Sorrows (Three Liberations) »

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Beautifully Average

She announced to her mirrored self,
"Today I shall celebrate
simply being human.
That is enough."

She tilted her blue, velvet beret
a little to the left,
smiled acceptingly,
and walked out the door,
for now, at least,
beautifully average.

Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.

Red-tulip-gray-sky

Posted at 05:25 AM in Gratitude, Growth, Mindfulness, Mysticism, Photography, Poetry, Wholeness, Wonder |

Tags: average, beauty, growth, health, photography, poetry, self, self-acceptance, self-image, tulip

|

Comments

Blog powered by Typepad

February 2021

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
  1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28            

Search

Subscribe to this blog's feed

Archives

Photo Albums

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Recently Read

  • Torsten Andreas Hoffmann: Photography as Meditation: Tap into the Source of Your Creativity
    (****)
  • Julie DuBose: Effortless Beauty: Photography as an Expression of Eye, Mind and Heart
    (****)
  • Christine Valters Paintner: Water, Wind, Earth and Fire: The Christian Practice of Prayer with the Elements
    (*****)
  • Harold Davis: Creative Close-ups: Digital Photography Tips & Techniques
    (****)
  • Cecily Parks, editor: The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses
    (***)
  • Timothy Verdon: Art and Prayer: The Beauty of Turning to God
    (*****)
  • Richard Rohr: What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self
    (*****)
  • Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust, editors: Poems Dead and Undead
    (****)
  • Janetti Marotta: 50 Mindful Steps to Self-Esteem: Everyday Practices for Cultivating Self-Acceptance & Self-Compassion
    (****)
  • Matthew Paul Turner: Our Great Big American God: A Short History of Our Ever-Growing Deity
    (*****)

Become a Fan