believe that I'm beautiful

Professional, bus shnazzy! I love this outfit – and it only cost me TEN dollars! That’s amazing! Anyway, just… check it out.

I made a shirt and wore it to the Arizona Matsuri. My friend Mel took this picture of me, and it makes me feel so good about myself.

I think once I’ve completed my goal to lose ~50 lbs. this will be easier. But I think it will also be easier to lose weight and stay motivated if I work on this goal as well… Yay! for vicious cycles!

Flip through just half an hours worth of commercials on virtually any TV channel, and you can’t avoid being jabbed with an endless parade of images perpetuating the myth of the perfect women (a fluid image that changes every few hours to maximize revenues in the dozens of “look” industries)—from hair to skin to teeth to butt to legs to shoes and everything in between.
Once you’ve watched this cascade of models and celebrity of the moments hawk the establishment’s version of beauty… believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy is far easier.
For all the madness of trying to morph from one look to another, I come to you with a simple truth. You are beautiful just the way you are. You don’t need a single speck of Clinique makeup or a single pigment of dye to cover your roots. You are already beautiful, every inch of you, a living shrine to the innate divinity that resides in every molecule of your body.