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I have been
the daughter
for 57 years
the wife
for 38 years
the mother
for 33 years
the woman
the friend
the teacher
the counsellor
the walker
the gardener
the maker
the creator
the seeker
and the finder
who am I now...
all of those above
and yet much more...
who are you?
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thank you Jeanne and Moddy
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We are many people.
ReplyDeleteHello Delwyn
ReplyDeleteI love this post and the pictures are beautiful!
The poem touched me and I agree with Ellen--"we are many people." For me I am a wife, mom, daughter, giver,learner and a good listener.
Take-Care and have a great week-end!
Best
Tracy :)
Lovely post Delwyn, you know, I think, I am all of them and much more.
ReplyDeleteIf I ever find out, I'll let you know! I guess I am the sum of all my experiences, plus the sum of all those others who have shared theirs with me - a many faceted being...
ReplyDeleteI am an appreciative and contented woman.
ReplyDeleteI really love the last portait, who is the artist, Delwyn?
Hi Wanda
ReplyDeleteI can tell from your blog that you are both of those things Wanda, and you are a kind and gentle friend...
Jeanne is the woman and Modigliani the artist.
Happy days
I don't know....and as I say "I", I get more confused....
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lovely art!
Ahhh - if we could only see that we are so much more than the roles we assume.
ReplyDeleteWe are all divine energy robed in flesh. But sadly becoming obsessed with the small identities and activities of the flesh, we forget who we really are.
Roberto Assagioli the great Italian psychiatrist (contemporary of Jung and Freud) offers an exercise called "Who Am I?" One part says something like "I play many roles, but I, my true self, am much more than the roles I play...I have a mind, but I, myself am not my mind....etc." He concludes the exercise by saying "I am a center of pure awareness."
So in answer to your question, while I play many of same roles you outline in your post, I know that what I really am is a centre of pure awareness.
Oh, how I love the art of Amedeo Modigliani and how you've measured your life with his magnificent paintings of women! I'll be married 38 years in September. This is a fabulous post, Delwyn.
ReplyDeleteAs for who I am now...I must reinvent myself as I wake each morning in this, the Autumn of my life. Blessings!!
Oh,Delwyn,this is so sweet,I love your masterfully chosen images accompanied with your poetic words,I love to hear from another woman of her inner beauty,and so I dream and wish to be all of the woman I can be,in the bliss of a new dawn,a new beginning!! Wonderful,thank you of reminding me how fine can that feel,being a woman! This woman will wish you now a very fine Easter weekend and send some warm greetings from cold and rainy Holland!
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful post. I salute you in all your rolls. There is much richness in all these experiences.
ReplyDeleteAs well, we are souls who at this point in time, have a body.
Thank you for all the beautiful art and thoughts.
Hi Delwyn, A reflective post today that has me wondering. Over the past several months, I've taken stock of myself. I, too, have been many things to many people. Now - I think I just want to evolve into being more Myself. I think maybe I'd like to learn greater acceptance and appreciation for each day and for my place in it.
ReplyDeleteI am me, just me. In part, the 'me' can function as these other people, but they are never, exclusively me.
ReplyDeleteI have spent too much time trying to be all things to all people, now I am me.
ah friko said it first...
ReplyDeletei am me. i am lori. sometimes lori ann when i feel like it. just me. i like it. finally.
dear delwyn, is it your birthday?
The sum of all, and more! Love these Dali's portraits.
ReplyDeleteHi Ellen
ReplyDeletea myriad of people all acting different roles and then there is that part of us that never act...hmmmm
Hi Tracy
thank you. I'm glad it made you reflect on your roles and 'I' ness
I'll be thinking of you tomorrow (my 5th)
Happy days
Hello Ann
ReplyDeletemuch much more...
Hi Jinksy
that question is some thing of a conundrum...I like you point that you have become 'you' with the additions of others...
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H there Tulsa
ReplyDeleteit takes time..and it is an ever changing perception...until it slowly starts to sink deeper into a knowing...
Try the exercise Bonnie describes, it is very useful...
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Hi Bonnie
ReplyDeleteYes I am familiar with Assagioli and have worked on the exercise you have mentioned in many ways over many years...and would have to agree with you...plus more...
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Hi Marion
ReplyDeleteHe is a favourite of mine too Marion ...and I agree that each day we have the chance to modify the way that we present ourselves to the world...bringing more of our inner self out into the world...
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Hi Aleks
ReplyDeleteI like the way that you have described your approach to life as a woman...
It is rainy here too Aleks, it usually is at Easter, unfortunately for all the many holiday makers who come to take advantage of the 4 day weekend and the school break for a week.
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Welcome Leslie
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to have you visit my neck of the woods...
thank you for your kind comments and for adding to this interesting discussion...
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Hi Barb
ReplyDeleteI have noticed a change in you since I first bumped into you in cyberspace...I sensed the shift too when you had your health scare recently...and also I think that this shift comes at a certain age....
I certainly have few expectations of myself anymore in an achieving and accomplishing sense in the outer world...and am enjoying the simple reflective life...a life full of wonder and appreciation...
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Hi friko
ReplyDeleteit is good to hear of women who have given up the priorities that they once thought so important and have re-valued them selves to their own advantage and personal development...
there are times when we have no option but to play certain roles and perform certain necessary functions to keep the wheels greased and the family and community that we live in functioning...but at the same time we must measure the effects of those roles on our selves...and make adjustments if possible...
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Hello Lori ann
ReplyDeleteI always call you Lori...which do you prefer...
No it is not my birthday. I am going across to New Zealand today to spend a week with my parents and that always make me think of who I am, returning to my homeland and place of birth and childhood...to where I am the daughter once again...I always feel the girl when I am in my parents house!
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Hi Rosaria
ReplyDeleteI think there is a consensus here that we are far more than the sum of all our roles in life...and that on some level we are linked...
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Ahhh, I am all my labels and I am not, also :) In some ways who I am becomes more and more simple with each passing year and yet some of it still remains a bit of a mystery to unfold!
ReplyDeleteLoved the portraits!
Is is this Modigliani's work?
ReplyDeleteWe have many different roles -and I kinda like it that way:)
Hello Vicky
ReplyDeleteI am doing some catching up...
That is the eternal paradox you have stumbles on...the simple and clear and the mystery and unknowing go hand in hand all our lives...
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Hi Jeanette
ReplyDeleteYes these women are Modigliani's paintings of his partner and love Jeanne Heberteurne who died tragically after he did...both so young.
yes we do wear many hats and perform many roles and yet over and above that are much more...
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