keepin it real : Part Two : Kim, Debi, Beth, Laurie

"we were all strangers. blogging friends. with big curious hearts. 

i asked if they wanted to visit. 

they said yes."

~Beth McWilliams~

We gathered on the shores of Seaside, Florida. January 2011 

from Texas, Wisconsin and New Hampshire

Debi, Kim, Beth, myself and Laurie

 Beth was our hostess with the mostest ( and Big Ass Lens )

photo by Beth

photo by Beth

"we shared and laughed. we cried and created.

we listened and learned"

~Beth~

"It was a collision of creative energies, bundles of nerves,

armfuls of hugs, freedoms to cry 

and space to just be"

~Deb Taylor ~

photo by Beth

"was it always easy? no. 

five women. enough said. 

{it takes real women to admit, know and understand that}"

~Beth~

read more here, here , here and here

as each of us share our memories from different perspectives

she gathers me

photo by Kim, edited by me

~She is a friend of my mind. 

She gather me, man. 

The pieces I am, she gather them 

and give them back to me 

in all the right order. 

It's good, you know, 

when you got a woman 

who is a friend of your mind.~

Toni Morrison

 

photo by Beth 

my friend, Laurie, my JOY