Vote for Our Community!
Vote for Our Community!
The 25th Annual Webby Awards has nominated the American Portrait website in its Community category, recognizing the site for creating a communal space where people can share, explore and listen.
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- I'm letting go of my divorce, loss of parents, loss of my dear dog. It's time to move forward and concentrate on my health and art career. I'm worth it and I know I can be happier if I do let go.
- What are you letting go of?Share a Story
- I'm letting go of FEAR! (If only I knew how...) So many bad life experiences seem to have imprinted fear into my being, and I hate it. But I don't know how to stop.
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- What tradition do you carry on?Share a Story
- The tradition I carry on is lifeguarding. For three summers I'd walk to the YMCA in my Ohio town, climb the ladder, smear on lotion, and sit watching. Guarding felt assumed. My mother was a lifeguard and her sister and daughters had been guards. My sister...
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- Now is the time to stop trying to save everyone else and save myself. My whole life I have poured my everything into others without getting anything in return which always left me with little energy. I want to pour into myself and give ME the...
- Now is the time to live your life to its fullest potential. Also to find the way you want to live your life
- Now is the time to be me. From the moment I began my private, Catholic schooling, I had very high expectations placed on me by the adults in my life. I exceeded in school, was faithful, and was all around the perfect child. But this golden...
- What are your hopes for this moment?Share a Story
- Now is the time to let go of the past and focus on the present and future. What is happening around you is much more important than what happened many years ago. It is time to look towards your goals and do what you love. Do...
- Now is the time to do what has been scratching at your heart for years. You know, that little thing that pops up out of nowhere in the middle of a long conference call or drive to pick your kid up from school or when you...
- Now is the time I focus on my future, what I always wanted to do, and stop worrying about the passe. I can not control what happened yesterday but I can control what going to happen tomorrow. So if something was bothering me in the passe...
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