self-love day 09

Like a lot of single girls women people, I used to get pretty angsty over being "single", especially on Valentine's Day. Over the past couple years I've realized a lot of truths about relationships of all sorts, written a lot of word vomit, listened to an ass-ton of Alanis and Ani, found the quirkyalone movement, fallen in and been pushed out of love, and finally come to acknowledge that I have found my special someone--myself! And in the face of heteronormative do-or-die romanticism, my friends are just as, probably more, important to me than any certain someone.

Today is Self-Love day, and I've spent it helping elementary schoolers with science projects, falling more in love with this city, and getting my Shakespeare gender-bender on in true queer-English-geek form. And of course, memeing. (es de daisy, one of the upper echelon of awesome blogistas in my life.)

Self Love Day 09!

1.) Post one of them thar banners on your blog and declare February 14th as the day you not only love your one and only, but the day that you love yourself!
2.) Post one nice thing about yourself……then ask others to post one thing that they really like about you.
3.) Enjoy yourself!


So, something nice about myself:

This sounds arrogant, cliche, hella Xian, or all of the above, but: my faith will get me through so, so much. It seems strange to me when people say "My faith got me through it", as though it's a last resort or a crutch, as though life wasn't made of faith. I sometimes feel like I've got an umbilical cord to the Universe, providing a context and Eagle's eyes for all of my actions. It's a weight sometimes, especially in this culture, but always a blessing. My faith doesn't get me through things, it pulls me to them, the one untangled thread in the loom of crazy that sometimes inhabits my brain.

Also, petty-nice thing--I think I have really, really pretty hair.

Now is the time to ask--any lurkers have nice things to say about me, themselves, the universe, etc ad inf? Do so :) Mwah!-mwah!s to all my relations. -t