Artsy Fartsy Shit

The lone shoe. 2015

Ghost Girl 2. 2015

Ghost Girl. 2015

I took Godzilla to the park.

We are suppose to look a certain way and that We are not allowed to think anything else is beautiful. If We weigh three pounds over weight We are suppose to think We’re fat, that We’re worthless. and not good enough. i get so mad at myself when i look in the mirror and i see my body and get upset because i don’t want to feel that way about myself and yet It’s what was embedded into the way i’m suppose to feel about myself. To always find something wrong because feeling good about myself is weird and unheard of. When i was in high school i looked decent. i wasn’t skinny i was’t huge. i actually looked good, but i was constantly told i didn’t look good and i was fat. Worse is when it came from my parents. Telling me i needed to loose weight, making me feel as if i wasn’t pretty and not important. If i ever have a daughter,  or even a son,  i will never tell them they need to loose weight or call them fat. i will always tell them i love them and that they are beautiful. We live in a world were every sex is given a standard for looks. We need it to end. We need to stand together and reteach what it means to be beautiful. Because it’s not about what you look like, or the size of you jeans.  It’s the about Our level of confidence the love we give and feel the kindness We show to others. And just being an all around good person. We are us.

Get to know your narrator (or main character if you are writing in third person). Know as much as you can about him/her/it/ect. so that if your character is put into any situation as you are writing you are ready to have them respond to it.

Landscapes. 2015. Al Sabo in Kalamazoo, MI.

'Choosing to be Alone' by Lindsey Michelle Ohman (me) 7.18.15