self-portrait tuesday 1/24/06: change

self portrait tuesday january challenge: personal history

the one artifact i have from my childhood,
besides the few pictures that i have hijacked
along the way,
is made from clay.

you know what i am talking about.
you made one, too, right?



i sometimes hold it and run my fingers over the
lines in my smaller-younger-hand.
then i compare the contrast of my current-hand.
i have many more
lines
now.

it is amazing to me that my fingerprints
are the same as when i was this
six-year-old self.

i have shown the shorties this
piece of my herstory
to prove that i was,
in fact,
a kid
once.

what i don't
tell them is
that i
still
am.

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