I am participating in Shakti Mama’s Portrait Project. This week our assignment was our eyes. Play along or just take a peek.
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Joy
This was one of the few photos I took a few hours after I learned the midwifery legislation I worked so hard on was signed into law. I was high on life, tickled pink, fearless and triumphant. I felt truly happy, playful even. I felt satisfied.
Determination
I took this picture about a week later. Things have settled down and my pure jubilation has turned into sheer determination. For the past ten months I have been focused on a pregnancy and midwifery legislation. They have both birthed into being and now it’s time to shift gears. My focus is so clear and I am utterly determined. My Gemini self can tend to flutter from interest to interest, but I am steadfast in following through on my current projects.
I can’t wait to share them with you.
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Lesson of the eyes. I wanted to share a picture without my glasses on. I really did, but drawing upon our last theme, “the mask” I will admit that I use my glasses as a mask. I usually have dark circles under my eyes. I think it’s from low iron and maybe from food sensitivities. I feel like you can’t see them as bad with my glasses on. It’s my comfort zone.
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I love those pictures of your eyes. And I can’t wait to hear more about your projects!
i can just feel your joy beaming through that first picture!!! amazing!!!!
That first picture is adorable!!
I, too, am curious about your upcoming projects!
I am continually touched by your determination, which seems imbued, to me, with levity/light/brightness. So wonderful.
xo,
Stacy
I love both of these pictures and how your eyes express your mood. Cool glasses, too.
Your eyes are so expressive! I can read your emotions quite easily in these … must be the Gemini thing :). I love both pictures, the whimsical happiness in the first, and the intensity of your eyes in the second.
Thanks for participating in the challenge!
Thanks everyone. Julianna, thanks for mentioning this as a “challenge” because I will admit this is much more of a challenge than I originally thought it would be. It’s stretching me and touching emotional buttons and then I’m having to ask why.
I will admit that when I look at that second photo I see more vulnerability that determination. Or maybe it’s that having that photo up there makes me feel vulnerable.
I see the joy, I feel the joy, share it please! What is the legislation? are you Uk or Us based? Have i heard about it? Is it really exciting? If so, why havent i heard about it?
Now my eyes are alive and excited? What have you done?!
Its the Gemini in me!!
Josie–it is SO exciting! I am in the US and we just passed a law in New York State that was supposedly “impossible”. We got ride of the written practice agreement which was causing a major barrier for women receiving midwifery care. You can learn more at the other website I moderate: FreeOurMidwives.org
I love the triumphant exhilaration in the first photo. What a phenomenal accomplishment!! The second photo “is currently unavailable”, so I can’t comment :-) I like your reference about comfort zones. My comfort zone is *behind* my camera, certainly not in front of it.
Thank you for sharing.