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Inspired by: http://shelovesmagazine.com/2012/a-love-letter-to-my-body/ Dear Body: You wear the scars from of 25+ years of hating myself. You have been scratched, bitten, stabbed, and squeezed into bras and skirts I hung on to for way too long. You are the shell I withdraw into when I don't want to try; and somehow you kept a tiny pilot light glowing when I wanted the darkness to take over. I always resented you for making me "different." But maybe those differences are what saved me from situations even more harmful than myself; and what led me to the people who love me for who I am. You are stubby fingernails and split ends; random bru

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." -Chinese Proverb I seem to be getting ready to leave the crossroads I've been at for so long; which for me means choosing to define and welcome the adult self I've been afraid to meet for so long now. My first steps down this new path are slow and hesitant, because it's unfamiliar and intimidating to me--I'm not one to welcome change with open arms, no matter how small or positive it may be. But maybe moving forward is like the spot off the 126 where I stopped to take pictures last weekend—a quiet country road, lined with trees and full of new light and shadows to captu