Female folkies are beautiful!

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Hollowfox
Date: 01 Nov 00 - 06:20 PM

Allan C, and all you others, Thank You so much for this thread! Reading it, bit by bit over these past few days has lifted my spirits more than you can imagine. I'd have posted sooner, but it was a long thread, and I didn't want to just skim. Thanks again! (Maybe somebody will have to start something like this for some of the guys..Has anybody got a site where I could buy a pinup of, say, Andres Segovia?)

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Big Mick
Date: 01 Nov 00 - 08:17 PM

Remember what I said about seeing their souls? For proof, read Wyo Woman. Surely some of God's best work in that woman. Glad you could share that with us, Pansy. I know how hard it is to share deeply held feelings, I did it a couple of times here. Congrats on a wonderful posting. Your beauty shines through. Most meaningful lines to me? The truth is, I'm in love with people, and with this beautiful little Earth we get to live on. I'm attracted to good hearts and want to contribute what I can, where I can and Once I've launched into a song, there's noplace on earth that feels more like home. I get this experience sometimes with my writing, too, or when holding a child. If anyone could read this and not recognize a pearl of great value..............

Mick

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 01 Nov 00 - 10:28 PM

AW, ya big Mick...

mmmwaaaaaa!

ww

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: CarolC
Date: 01 Nov 00 - 11:25 PM

WyoWoman, I understand exactly what you're saying, but from the opposite side of the equation. I'm terribly lost in groups of people, and only know what to do with myself in one on one, or small group situations. I can't bear to sing, either to myself, or in front of other people. I feel the most at home when I play an instrument that blends in with the rest and doesn't stand out too much.

I get terribly overwhelmed if I'm around people for extended periods of time and yet, like you, I love people and want to be a part of their lives. And I want to contribute in whatever ways I can.

Thank goodness for the Mudcat.

Carol

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 01:04 PM

Where introverts gather at night ...

or day.

WhatEVer ...

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: P05139
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 04:19 PM

Naemanson, two things:-

1) No digicam at the Firecat/Tig/Badger household

2) You wouldn't WANT to have me on Hearme and I don't know how to get on it anyway!

:-))

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 04:33 PM

FC, if you were good enough for choir, you're good enough for HearMe! If you want to get to HearMe, click here and click where is says "Song circle". Of course, unless someone else is IN there, you won't hear any music, or see any other names. I'm going there right now, so if you want to try it, I'll be in.

--M

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: CamiSu
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 11:05 PM

When I was a teen, my mother tried to mold me into a 'fashionable' person, and I wouldn't go. She also had me on a perpetual diet ans she thought I was fat. (I was heavy for my size. I only floated with effort and could easily walk across the bottom of the pool). I didn't fit in with the 'girls' and have not yet figured out how to talk to the 'pretty' ones. But I always loved to sing, and love having kids around the house, and my husband tells me i'm beautiful. Someday I may believe it.

This said, I saw a photo of the MOST BEAUTIFUL woman at the Ansel Adams show last week. She was ancient, her face all creases. I could have looked at her forever...

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Matt_R
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 11:08 PM

And your face was a well-written page, Maggie
And time alone was the pen....

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: GUEST,Big Mick
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 11:13 PM

CamiSu, you prove my point again. Go back and read what you wrote!! Your beauty just shines through......I just can't believe what a marvelous thread this is. We are treated to such wonderful descriptions........I must find that Ansel Adams photo..............

Mick

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Ferrara
Date: 02 Nov 00 - 11:53 PM

Matt... After all this, reading the whole thread for the first time, and feeling very moved by so many things here, it was the lines from "Maggie" that brought tears to my eyes. Thanks all.

I wouldn't let Bill D or Don Nichols put up any of the photos they took of me at the Getaway.... So Mick's words did me good too... Many thanks to Nancy-Jean Siegel, who e-mailed me a beautiful photo from my concert. It made me look the way I feel when I'm singing and, in WW's words, "sailing right down the center of a song."

Guess I'll have to put it on Bill's web site.

About 6 years ago, a friend of mine was moaning about turning 43. Well, I'm 10 years older than her. I told her, "I don't see what the fuss is about growing older. The way I see it, I earned every one of those 53 years. The bad as well as the good, turned me into the person I am today and I value them all." Not directly about beauty, but in a way it is.

Rita Ferrara

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: Catrin
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 07:31 AM

Wyowomn - I have just read through your thread. That's my story too - or most of it. Lack of self belief turned me into a shy introverted mouse who 'believed' that everybody and anybody was judging me negatively. Then one day I 'woke up' and realised that the only person judging me, the only one who mattered, was myself. I started to be kinder to myself and it has transformed my life.

I really believe that lack of self believe prevented me from thinking, or experiencing, or believing other people who gave me compliments.

I'm forty this month and glad to be. I am happier than I have ever been before. It seems to me that life gets easier. If other people do want to judge me negatively, that's their problem, not mine.

All the hurt stopped when I sang too. Now I sing for Joy.

I'm not so unrealistic as to believe that my life will be painfree from now on. It's just that I have a different, healthier, way of dealing with painful stuff.

Cheers,

Catrin

Subject: RE: Female folkies are beautiful!
From: GUEST,bbc at work
Date: 03 Nov 00 - 11:51 AM

Playing off Ferrara's thought a little--I have never worried too much about my age or appearance. I figure I've done enough to be the age I am &, generally speaking, I'm content w/ who I am. In terms of aging & showing age, though, Ferrara reminded me that one of my favorite things about my partner, Duane D., is his wrinkles. The only ones he has are smile wrinkles & lines that should concern --the life evidence of a sensitive, loving man. I want that to be the story of my life, too.

bbc