This is my first Self-portrait Challenge and what a way to start. I don't think I could have begun with a better theme: CELEBRATION

There are so many ways to celebrate, so many things to celebrate. I didn't know where to begin. So I drew up a list of what I like to celebrate and what celebration means to me. It contained things like good food and wine, friends, Hope's Flame, small successes, good reads, seeing a friend succeed, watching a red-tail hawk soar, colors, finding new artists... 

But ultimately, it wasn't until today, when I filled out a profile section of a book blog I subscribed to, that I really felt a connection to celebration. As soon as I typed these words, I knew I had found what I was looking for:

Proactively unemployed, happily doing my own thing, committed to creativity, and lovin' every minute of it.

What else is there to say?


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Here are some links to other people's SPC that I especially liked:

Celebrate being a woman: http://cjsrambling.blogspot.com/2008/01/self-portrait-celebration.html
Be: http://pumkinlittle.typepad.com/bits_and_pieces_of_a_happ/2008/01/self-portrait-c.html
Celebrating Dragonflies: http://nokiddingaround8.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-first-spc.html
Adopt: http://sometimeseverything.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/spc-celebrate-1/
Celebrating Tickets: http://debrichardson.com/blog/?p=1202