beauty, an inside job?

When "things" go wrong for me, I have always made things, sewing and cooking when I was young. In my 30's I studied horticultural, and then pottery. I got sun poisoning, and then carpal (?) tunnel syndrome, so I had to stop both of those stress outlets. My luck! Then around 40, to relieve stress I began drawing. My drawings were awful, until a picture of one of my children started to fade to that terrible pale orange color. I picked up my pencil, and 8 hours flew by before I knew it. Then I found a picture of a 92 year old friend, so I drew men him in color. I found I loved faces, all faces, ugly, pretty, young and old. But my favorite to draw are the older people. What I see in people's faces tells me so much about the person. There is so much beauty, even in the average face. I have even refused to draw a couple of people, because what I saw in them frightened me. Sometimes you can see evil in a person's face. So I guess that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. And now that I have to live on disability, the extra 3 to 4 hundred dollars in cash comes in handy. I think all people are beautiful. :cart:
 
Me around five
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Me in my early 30's with oldest child.

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Me in my early 40's

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I loved seeing the pics of you all.:)
 
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Me taken when I was two in 1952. I am still rebelling at being dressed in 'pretty' dresses by my mother!:D
 
sounds familiar except my sister, and older bro were 10 or so years apart from Alan and I. I remember crying when they left to get married, first my bro, then my sis. Then it was just Alan and I but we had some times for sure. Mostly, we survived.
 
lovely pic gal:) I love what you've written, it is nice to get to be where you are, even if it's just online. You are the kind of "people" I love meeting:) Denise
 
Hey TG, you were a surfer or still are?? I never got to try it, but I still slalom ski, love that, but no comparison I'm sure;) Well, balance I suppose:)
 
nwlady said:
Hey TG, you were a surfer or still are?? I never got to try it, but I still slalom ski, love that, but no comparison I'm sure;) Well, balance I suppose:)
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Yes ma'am, I have pure saltwater running through my veins. Of course, I love saying to the posers, "We are only surfers when we are actually surfing." So, at the moment, I'm just a guy (with pure saltwater running through his veins) sitting on his butt at a computer...
 
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