Waking up slowly today, because I can.My nose is more or less unblocked and less snotty largely thanks to the couple of glasses of red wine last night, I think.

I've had my hot water , psyllium seeds and crushed flaxseeds and have been reading emails and messages on facebook.

One of my friends on facebook has written a long reply to someone in response to his comment :

"wow man u really love yourself didn't realize you had so many profile pics"

I think my friend's point was that you should love yourself and displaying photos of yourself was one way.

I start to ponder away , as is my wont .........

....... yes his pictures are beautiful, dramatic, artistic. I didn't see any there of bad hair days ... or just after getting up in the morning after a wild party the night before .. or with a stinky cold ... or when depressed, sad, grumpy , irritable etc

It's hard to love those shadow sides of ourselves, isn't it ?

I am not friends with the camera. I don't like pictures of myself even though I have invested quite a lot of time learning to love myself. I don't think the camera has been very fair only capturing my ugliness and not the beauty of who I am Or , maybe I simply cannot see it Ah well . My friends also say " that's not you " .

Some people are really good friends with the camera and look great on photos. Since getting my digital camera last year , I have lots of photos of people and two of my soul sisters are very good subjects. They have such expressive faces.

I'll stop there , I think