Comments on: Old self with prop…

By: guybrush57

guybrush57 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:20:20 +0000

I think your picture’s lovely – and I’m thrilled to know what you look like! I think you look intelligent, articulate and contemplative. Wish I had the nerve to post a pic – but sadly, no camera has survived the attempt.

By: diamondsandrust

diamondsandrust — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:58:58 +0000

I imagined you like that believe it or not,and I think you are very brave.

By: Deborah Barlow

Deborah Barlow — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:23:35 +0000

Thank you for sharing this photo. It has a haunting quality, and I looked at the image for a long time. Your challenge requires some scanning, but I may take you up on it…those old photos have their own kind of power, don’t they?

By: suburbanlife

suburbanlife — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:25:21 +0000

It must be the glasses that make for the ‘intellectual’ look – without them i look like a stunned deer in the headlights about to be run over by a semi truck. lately, friends have started to make catty comments on how much i act like mr. magoo, and lead me about by the hand, which is ever so irritating. of course the glasses now are really thick and very nerdy looking in a little old lady sort of way, but what the heck!
My grand-daughter takes great delight in ruffling my grey hair and trying to peer into my ‘bad’ eye – she is very fascinated by my recently acquired ‘wicked-witch’ appearance. Oy! G

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:47:10 +0000

That’s a lovely photo. You look very Parisian circa 1930s i.e. very intellectual.

By: owlfarmer

owlfarmer — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:10:40 +0000

I see that you, too, were a “babe” in your youth. I had to chuckle soundly when I read your post, because it sounds like me in my former life (although I had the long, straight hair and granny glasses of an already aging hippie twenty years ago–I was already forty, but no longer an idiot, I think). Not many photos of me survive from that era, which is odd for a member of a photo-happy family. Maybe because I was taking them.

But the evening you describe sounds familiar and rather poignant, upon reflection.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:23:59 +0000

Hi G, you look so intellectual, even debonair. Was the picture taken in the Yukon?
Take care,
Enrique

By: johemmant

johemmant — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:31:23 +0000

I LOVE that photo. I think it is just the kind of shot someone would have taken of me then, mouth open opining, cigarette in hand *grin*. I too hate to be photographed, I am very unphotogenic. I also console myself with the fact that I like people’s looks in direct proportion to how I feel about them……ie friends and people I love are always gorgeous.

By: suburbanlife

suburbanlife — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:45:31 +0000

I agree with Nita that beauty does not decrease with age, with the proviso that a person with an internal beautiful personality will show that beauty in his or her external appearance. There is a beauty of character which is difficult to describe, yet recognizable when one comes across it – a wholeness, serenity, acceptance and dignity. I wish to age that way. G

By: Nita

Nita — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:25:59 +0000

Christine, beauty does not decrease with age, not even physical beauty. In fact I think it increase. I had an aunt who looked stunning at 70! She had flawless skin, a serene expression and talking eyes. She was agile and alive. At the age of 20 she looked pretty ofcourse, but it was a cardboard type of prettiness that millions have. It has no meaning, it is purely physical. The kind of beauty that someone gets with age is true beauty, because it shows the world who are…bitter, mean, unhappy, worried, sad, or just happy and beautiful inside. Ofcourse being content with one’s looks also impacts how one looks. Many people just look better and better with age!