Standing to Applaud Lucy Hilmer

vulnerability….scary stuff

why is it that we would chew our own foot off rather

than expose ourselves to others?

this was especially the case in my younger

years although as i age it becomes less of an issue…

(which is kinda scary considering a glimpse of my younger

 self was way easier on the eye). 

i think for women body image is one of our greatest 

vulnerabilities so when i came across photographer

Lucy Hilmers series of selfies taken each year on

her birthday…dressed in only her underpants..socks..

and shoes…i wanted to stand and applaud!

she began taking her pictures on her twenty ninth

birthday and continues today at the age of sixty nine.

she did admit that she kept them to herself until

recently but is now publishing a book of the series.

at an age when society tells us we should just fade

into the background Lucy Hilmer has the courage to

shout…

look at me….

i'm still here…

i matter…

i am enough...