10 years

A picture is worth a thousand words, I could definitely write 2,000 photos about these 2 photos. The woman on the left has no idea what this decade was going to bring. She was worried she would never have another kid. She was broke. She had no $ for contacts. She doesn’t know it’s all going to get much darker before it gets light again. She doesn’t know that she will love yoga one day. She doesn’t know she has an autoimmune disease that is killing her energy. She doesn’t know how to smile (I told y’all!). She doesn’t know that 3 more children are on the horizon. The days are long and the years are long.

The woman on the right, what does she not know? Because, she HAS figured some shit out. Smiling, for one. She almost has the buttons and big boobs figured out. She lives overlooking a lake. She has the big family she knew they were destined to be. In 2019, she sits at the precipice of something great, she can feel that. She still has the Bakelite earrings that she bought for 50 cents! The days are short and the years are also now short. Both these women make me proud.

2009 & 2019