It's a Profoundly Loved Blog Party!

A little earlier this year my good friend Seanna from the blog Seanna Approved tapped me to take part in a fun blogging Q&A called The Profoundly Loved Blog Party.

As with most of these kinds of posts the premise is as simple as can be. There's a series of questions which one answers and then they nominate a handful of folks to respond to the same queries themselves.

On this lovely first weekend of April, a mere day away from Easter Sunday, I thought that now would be a great time to spend a little while delving into this group of get-to-know-me-even-better questions before heading out to lap up up the prospect of a sunny springtime day and all the joy it’s bound to house.

It's 'Profoundly Loved Blog Party' Time!

1. Tell me about something you love and why?
Learning. I absolutely, passionately adore learning about just about anything and everything I possibly can. I've been this way my whole life and love perpetually lapping up knowledge anywhere and everywhere I go. Doing so brings me joy, helps me in every area of my life, and ensures that I've always got a stack of books a mile high waiting to be read.





2. What is one thing you do that makes you feel like "I could do this forever"?

Sharing my life with my wonderful husband.




3. What do you love about yourself?

The older I get, the more entries land on this list, which I think is a great thing because we should all love as much about ourselves as possible. Some of the things that really jump out at me are my passion for the past, my caring spirit, that writing and creating bring me tremendous joy, my unending love of reading, the fact that I've always had a lot of common sense, that I feel a profound connection with nature and the animal kingdom, my ability to make a million and one recipes from memory, that I'm (humbly) a great wife and daughter, that I'm an incredibly hard worker, that I'm extremely opened minded, and that I can almost always find the silver lining in even the bleakest of situations.




4. What advice would you give to someone who doesn’t believe he/she is beautiful?

This one cuts to the core and makes me draw in a long, heavy breath, exhaling it slowly and proceeding as though walking on eggshells with my reply, because this is something (as discussed in posts such as this one) that I've seriously battled with my whole life.

Honestly, my gut reaction is to say that I don't know. That if I did know, I could repeat it often enough to myself and have an easier time believing in my own (physical) beauty. That said, coming from a place of immense understanding, I would tell that person that external beauty is profoundly overrated and yet at the same time, that they are likely a thousand times lovelier looking than they've ever been kind enough on themselves to see. That a good heart, honest soul, and caring spirit trump "looks" any day of the week and that there is, without a doubt, someone out there who will think they're the most beautiful person on earth because they view them though the lenses of love.




5. What is the best piece of advice you've ever received about confidence?

Objectively, I wouldn't say that I've been given a lot of advice in this arena throughout my life. A good deal of what I have heard though has come from my wise husband and certainly one thing he's said to me numerous times is to remember that chances are people are not thinking about you in a negative, judgmental, or unkind light nearly as often as you might believe they they are, let alone that you think about yourself in the same way. Therefore, don't waste your time and happiness worrying that they might be!




6. If you were your own daughter/son, what important things would you tell yourself/them?

Interestingly for me, this ties somewhat into question #4. I would tell my child (err, myself), first and foremost that I loved them unconditionally. They I always will always have their back and would believe, at face value, anything they told me. That I would defend them with my life and fight to the death to ensure they they were as safe and healthy as possible in any setting. That if they needed dental work done, as I always did growing up (but which my parents weren't able to provide me with) and still do to this day, I would literally sell everything I owned (to raise money) and work five jobs, if that's what it took, so that my child never had to live with the disfigurement and self-confidence crushing embarrassment that comes from having a mouth full of teeth you're perpetually ashamed of, even though you (they) didn't do anything to cause that situation to happen. And I would tell them, often, that they were beautiful/handsome, unique, valuable, talented, creative, worthy of respect always, capable of amazing things, and that, last but not least, I would support them and their life choices no matter what (so long as they didn't harm themselves or others).






7. A verse, poem, sonnet, ancient-old proverb that inspires you to love yourself and others?

This classic poem entitled "Dreams" by Langston Hughes was one of the first pieces of poetry I remember learning by heart as a child. It has stayed with - and at times even guided - me through life ever since.

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There are so many fantastic bloggers out there that I'd be delighted to have take part in this blog party posting game, so if you aren't named specifically here, please don't feel excluded. You have my blessing to tag yourself and answer these seven thought provoking questions as well, anytime you'd like. If you play along, be sure to come back here after you've posted your answers to leave a comment letting me know that you've done so, as I would love to read your seven replies, too.

I'm nominating the following seven awesome ladies to take part in the Profoundly loved blog party:

Brittany from Va-Voom Vintage

Candice from Vintage Current

Daffny from A Vintage Nerd

Esther from Dolly Creates

Marija from Purple Pinky Honey

Michelle from Delightful Handiwork

Porcelina from Porcelina's World

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So often I find that with these kinds of blog tag/blog Q&A posts, I'm nominated - which I sincerely appreciate - but it usually takes me several months until I get the opportunity to answer them. I didn't want to wait anywhere near that long this time around, as I really do like it when my fellow bloggers and online friends tag me to play along with these kinds of fun posts.

It's been less than two months since Seanna did so, and while that might not break any blogging land speed records, so to speak, it's still pretty quick in my books. Who knows, perhaps the next time someone kindly tags me for a game like this, I'll post my answers that same month. (Knowing myself and my blogging schedule as I do, though it will likely be more like half a year, but hey, stranger things have happened! :))