Today begins the 30-day photo chal­lenge. I’m fol­low­ing along with GG Renee from The Write Curl Diary. She cre­ated an inter­ested set of sub­jects for the chal­lenge. I love her blog because her posts inspire self-reflection. Her post seems to come along right when you need val­i­da­tion or a vir­tual friend to con­firm or guide your thoughts.

I believe parts of this chal­lenge will encour­age self-reflection. So I decided this would be a great time to chal­lenge myself to write for the next 30-days. It’s some­thing that I’ve been inter­ested in doing and I think right now is the per­fect time. Well per­fect except for the two get­aways I have planned for this month but I’m deter­mined to keep writ­ing while on vacation.

The first pic­ture in the chal­lenge is a self-portrait. When I think about the word self-portraits, I don’t think about the pic­tures peo­ple snap when they’re feel­ing pretty. I think more thought goes into the self-portrait. I believe a self-portrait cap­tures the per­son­al­ity of the per­son behind the cam­era, paint brush, or pencil.

There are a total of 6 self-portraits in this chal­lenge and each have a vary­ing theme. The first one is a sim­ple self-portrait.

Here I am in all my tired glory. Tired because I had a won­der­ful time out with my soror­ity sis­ters last night. It was worth the droopy eyes and slug­gish mood.  One of my sis­ters is leav­ing for a year to teach aboard. I will miss her but I’m glad we were able to see her before she left.

Every day I stand at this door while my dog wan­ders around the back­yard sniff­ing, scratch­ing, and mark­ing her ter­ri­tory.  I’m eat­ing this bran muf­fin in hopes that it will bring me enough energy to cook din­ner. I was able to cook and eat a deli­cious meal and I’m not too far off from bed. I have sleep to catch up on. Goodnight.