Things That Make Us Beautiful

What makes you/me/us beautiful?

Add your list.

well

• the fact that we can forgive people.
• the way we look at people
• the way we talk about people
• the way we make music
• the way eyes sparcle at some thing now
• the way eyes gleam at some thing as beautiful you
• the way we can love every one
• ears
• noses
• belly buttons (my favorite)
• eyes (also my favorite)
• hands
• LEEEGS....ya
• feet
• TOES!
• fingers
• arms
• hair (yet another i like)
• BUTS!......ilike big buts and i...sorry

thomas i love you all

• Faces that sparkle
• Smiles of loved ones
• Tears of Laughter
• Faults
• Laughs
• Love

Zaria, in love with the world.

• eyes
• your voice
• your hands
• trust
• the way you look when you sing
• dancing
• genuine smiles
• playing drums
• hugging
• playing in the snow
• the poetry that you think is bad

~Becky~

being able to find that.. truth in myself. to calm down. and not worry so much.

figuring out how to smile again and appreciating it. Mari

the small tilt of your chin when your slowly smiling that beautiful smile. your voice singing when you think nobody can hear you. laughing that impish laugh of yours. your poetry, songs, stories, thoughts and ideas.

My friends, my friends my friends, they make me feel loved and beautiful. My smile, my sense of humor, how I love the people that I love.

what makes me feel beautiful: my friends, and strangers who will be friends ~ cosi ~ doing, saying, or&and making things that makes others happy ~ when i am with someone or&and am somewhere i love ~ -my charming personality ~ my smile ~ singing..constantly ~ laughing ~ i'm sure there is more. but it is time for bed.

• patience
• smiles
• laughs
• me

Sure there's more, but I'm not in a self-promoting mood tonight -JessicaSkater

• my mountain-ass-kicking legs.
• the way i can be quiet or loud and happy either way
• my art, in both how i make it and how i live it
• how i look in a backpack
• my guts. my fears.
• borrowed yellow tank tops.

-Dawn

my friend debra used to sing a song that i think of when i'm losing myself: "the thing that makes you beautiful/the thing that makes you beautiful/the thing that makes you beautiful/is who you are".

i think what so many of us responded to in adrian's photos is how he captured the *spirit* of people in the pictures. what is beautiful about jake is his jake-ness. ditto for zen, for wanderlust, for kyla, for all of us. our spirits coming through.

that said, i need the lift of the list i'm about to make.

What Makes Me Beautiful: my me-ness; my brown & alert eyes; my pretty hair; my presence in my body; my raging brain; my way of putting the world into words; my love for other people & streets & trees; my conventionally attractive, youthful girl body; my femme spirit; my erotic energy; my style... okay, that's enough.

love to y'all. you are all beautiful!!

Jessica (Witch Baby)

 the gap between my two front teeth
 my need to tell people i love them
 the music i listen to!
 the fact that i.. am naomi. hi :) /~naomi the moth/

 Dance
 The beach
 Green
 Friends
 Camp

 - Emma

Myself,A desire to be good and to shun evil, a true desire to learn, an uncanny ability to dance, a love of writing, polo shirts and trousers. - JohnPaul

Happiness and confidence. Ooh, and long comfy skirts :) ~erin

Intrest, amusement, love, camp. my purple sweatshirt. -marina

Not Back To School Camp. ~nell who cries because she misses you all

you say i am beautifull why am i beautifull? i don't feel beautifull? I feel Me.

"beauty. danger. they are the same."

What makes me beautifull is when i am comfortable and being loved and relaxing, knowing you love me anyway. knowing you aren't going to blow up at me. i realize i depend on you an awful lot. to make me beautifull but after all, who can be beautifull when she is being shunned? Not I.

I must first be Free.

i cannot be beautifull now. for i am a toad at present but someday someone will say you are gorgeous and someday i will know that is true

or maybe never.

because you cannot be beautifull if you are not first at ease. i think. at least, for me, i do not feel in beauty when my life is being manipulated in such a way. Help me, help me escape and become beautifull. mayhap i will please you. mayhap i shall please myself and be a thing of delight, of true beauty, instead of that which wraps my flesh now, that questioning unsurety of expression, that offensive...but this is a beauty page. Well i am beautifull in the sunlight and the shadows, i am beautifull when i dance and beautifull when i sing, when i express freedom...i make you say it. she is beautifull. would that it were true. not today, but sometimes, somedays, someways, i do feel beautifull.

so much makes me beautiful, first i guess is just *feeling* beautiful, i love being able to feel beautiful in dumpy clothes driving a minivan, out of sheer perversity. let's see. saying the word cunt. saying really strange things that make people smile. my clothes. my hair. cuddling. playing mortal kombat. smiling. ranting. listening. staring at the weeds straggling through cracking pavement. the way i pretend to dance. making out with people. singing!!! curling the spiraly phone cord around my body in new and interesting ways as i talk to people. working. eating in delicate nibbles. finding the most asymetrical part of a room and inhabiting it. everything. wow. you know what i've been feeling very beautiful and sparkly and content lately, i can't tell when my feeling beautiful ends and knowing everything is beautiful begins anymore. it's a really cool feeling :) Jenny

Crying while listening to a song that touches something in me, and makes me feel like everything i ever meant to do in the world has already been done in a beautiful perfect way; the feeling that everything i do is justified. My hands. The things i write. The way i carry myself. My lips. The way i kiss. The way i dance. My blue and gold eyes. Running around in the rain. Climbing trees. . . There's so many other things, but that's my list for now. ~Jennyrose

i generly hate doing stuff like this but it is time to be happy not sad. so i like me cuz

• i stand out
• i'm good at gym
• i am well loved with my friends
• i like my eyes
• i LOVE my smile :)
• i love my manners
• i love my ears
• i love my life when i'm with you..
• i love being a unatairen
• i love my hands
• i love feet!
• i love my ways
• i love me!

i like me alot i have wanted to say stuff like this for a long time :) love me Heather

• Listening
• Beethoven
• Helping others heal
• Deep breating
• Waving my arms around while I listen to the Beatles
• Sunshine in February (for another two days, anyway)
• Making bread
• Sweeping the floor
• Letters
• Feeling my cat's breath
• Biking to a park
• Long hair
• Friends
• Love of all sorts

-Mitchell

• Being in love with life constantly and that tingly feeling on the back of my neck when Iyam
• People people people
• Forgetting myself
• Eternity. the concept of it. just...wow.
• Feeling that I'm doing the right thing.
• Photograph.

~rainyarain

I suppose it must be the way I keep falling down in the mud every day and getting up again.

i dont know why some poeple think im beutiful, becouse i dont think im beutiful, so i dont see what they see.

           ~thomas~

• Because your not afraid (or it doesnt seem that way) of not being perfect. because you are real to the bone, you know how to dance out under the stars with me, you get dirty and wet. You take good pictures and can draw, you have a beautiful smile that makes my heart melt remember your eyes draw tears. your raindancer

There is so much beauty in our minds and hearts. It is impossible to describe such a tremendous thing.