Comments on: Spectator Sports

By: Forrest

Forrest — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:58:01 +0000

Beautiful post Amy! Thank you!

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:09:22 +0000

Thanks Corinne! I am glad you enjoyed it. I think that while there is something unique about being a mutant. I think the experience of struggling to see one’s beauty in our culture is one all women share. We lose ourselves in who we think we should be rather than in the reckless beauty of who we are.

By: Worthwhile Reading « A New Leaf Emerging

Worthwhile Reading « A New Leaf Emerging — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:46:11 +0000

[...] 23, 2010, 10:46 pm Filed under: Community, Reflections If you have a moment, please please read this. Amy’s words hit right at my heart. Thank you Amy… you are wise beyond your years. And [...]

By: Corinne

Corinne — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:29:49 +0000

Amy… I sit here and cry for the beauty of the words you wrote and how deeply I needed to hear this. For so long I have struggled to see myself as beautiful, even though I would be what most would consider “average” or “normal”. Looking back, perhaps it was my hearing loss that I felt set me apart from my peers. That and my chiclet sized front teeth with the enormous gap. I feel that it is one of life’s greatest ironies that perhaps we all have these things which we feel separates us from others, and therefore, makes us unlovable, or not beautiful. It is what keeps us from experiencing true community. And it’s words like yours that help break us out of that… thank you Amy, for that reminder. That I am beautiful… if anything because there is no one else on earth like me.