Did this really happen?
Is Oprah’s photo really on the same page as one of my self-portraits?
I’m still kind of shocked to say, yes!
Today took an unexpected turn when the lovely Catherine Just emailed me to let me know that she had just gotten a newsletter from Oprah.com featuring one of my photos in it (and i LOVE that she knew right away it was my photo)! Here’s a link to the article! And here is a link to a second image of mine in the slideshow!
Oh my gosh!
I did know that there was a chance this photo could end up somewhere related to Oprah as a writer contacted me a month or so ago to ask permission to use some photos from this blog post in an article but that it was for the Oprah Page of the Huffington Post (which was exciting enough) but to find out this morning that it was actually on Oprah.com instead was VERY cool!
For someone who grew up watching Oprah’s TV show almost every afternoon after school as a teen, this feels kind of surreal!
I’m feeling extra grateful that this photo in particular was used, not because it is a fancy photo at all but because self-portraiture as a way to cultivate self-love is the message I feel I have to most offer the world so it feels pretty powerful that that is the message that ended up there!
And I hope it will inspire people to take out their sidewalk chalk and leave messages and to keep their eyes open for these secret messages from the universe.
Thank you so much for celebrating this with me my friends! This definitely doesn’t happen every day!