For the Daily Prompt: brave.
I took this in 2010, at a synchronized swim meet. These are very young swimmers, yet each girl is being lifted by three others, who are lifting only by swimming. They may not touch the bottom. It takes enormous amounts of practice and teamwork.
I hope that more women speaking up and saying “Me too” and refusing to tolerate the Weinsteins and all of the others will change the pattern.
Strong girls and brave women.
For the Daily Prompt: risky.
I took this September 2015, at the Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race. The human powered vehicles must go on land, in water, and through a mud bog….
For the Daily Prompt: loyal.
I am thinking of the men working with the Weinstiens and the Cosbys. They might have heard a rumor, but they ignored it? Women are free to speak up if there is a problem?
No, gentlemen, actually women are only “free” to speak up if they are rich and in massive groups.
Otherwise, we are dismissed, silenced, disbelieved and ignored.
For me, it was at age 7. Are you going to say I was dressed wrong? I was too sexy? I should not have been alone with him? It’s my fault?
The water is beautiful and reflects the sky. What do you think is there beneath the surface in the depths?
For the Daily Prompt: cloaked.
each leaf
each person
each heart
each cell
each molecule
This is for the Daily Prompt: tame.
Not tame, though. We were out for a walk and heard a warning chatter. Up in the following tree, caught by the zoom.
For the Daily Prompt: believe.
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