Today in The Gallery at Sticky Fingers the theme is 'Me'...
Now of course this opens up huge possibilities for photo choices. I thought of trying to be clever and take or find a photo that represents who I am, not necessarily an actual photo of me. Something symbolic maybe, of who I believe myself to be. As I am many things, as are we all, daughter, sister, friend, lover, mother, dreamer, artist...
But the most life changing one of those for me is 'Mother'.
So this is a photo of me. Taken 10 seconds after my now 22 year old son was born, still with blue fingers & toes and an interestingly pointy shaped head, caused by having been stuck on my cervix for 5 hours. His birth was the end of a heartbreaking 2 years for us, which involved the loss of our first son at 19 weeks the previous year, followed by many, many tests and lots of tears and soul searching about choices made.
This was the moment I entered a wonderful world of love, hope, joy and fear, forever. And this is who I still am today. So this photo is the starting point of four wonderfully individual human beings, whose presence in my life has helped shape me into who I am today...ME.
