Magpie Girl (Rachelle Mee-Chapman)
distracted by sparkly things since 1969
Sometimes we cannot see ourselves for who we really are.
While our compass is at our center, our community helps us to see.
What do you see in these photos? What is it about this face that moves you?
I’m curious to see what you see.
Love,
Magpie Girl
In this photo post: The four faces of me: out of the shower, made up for the day, just before bed, making dinner.
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Welcome to Magpie Girl. I’m your host, Rachelle Mee-Chapman. Providing soulcare to artists and wanderers is my passion. Spiritual misfits, recovering evangelicals, and people with gremlin problems are my specialty. My motto is, “There ain’t nowhere to go, but together.” So thank you for being here!
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I see a tenderness and vulnerability in the top left, determination in the top right, a little bit of cautiousness mixed with some fierceness in the bottom left, and strength in the bottom right. loving that apron too. great portraits, girl!
Hi Rachelle,
I just started reading your blog a few weeks ago and find myself totally addicted and continually inspired! I’ve read back a little ways, but that being said, I only know a little bit about you. So my thoughts drawn from your photos aren’t super biased by a familiarity with your backstory.
Photo 1 (out of the shower): It’s like a pregame face. I see just a girl – someone who, just like every single other girl out there without exception, wakes up with hopes and worries and goals and insecurities. It’s a very vulnerable look. And it feels totally universal.
Photo 2 (makeuped): I see such confidence and thoughtfulness. It just looks like Girl #1 has just shoo’d the gremlins away and has centered herself around the hopes & goals of the day. It’s nice to see that you don’t like like a completely different person after getting all gussied up. I always feel sad for people who mask their faces too much because it’s seems as though they don’t like what’s underneath. But you’re clearly still you!
Photo 3 (before bed): I see a mom. This picture could totally be my own mother on Christmas mornings when we were kids. There’s such a beautiful sense of solid capability and strength and wisdom in this photo!
Photo 4 (making dinner): I see a girlfriend (like a girl’s girlfriend, not a guy’s ladyfriend. Like a friend who’s a girl. Okay, moving on). You just look like fun! Approachable and quirky and someone who sits around with girlfriends and has funny conversations over a glass of wine.
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Wow. Beautiful and brave!
The eyes in all 4 pictures look the same. Quite serious, or perhaps pondering … save for the making dinner photo, where I see a hint of a smile. I see real, bare, unhidden in the two pics on the left, and on the right … I see the smoothness of cloaking oneself. Lovely …
What I see, going clockwise from top left:
Seeker.
Artist.
Lover.
Friend.
i see a beautiful woman. I see strong! i see cool! I see fab!
Vulnerablity.
Beauty.
Uncertianty.
Love.
Plus, kick ass red hair.
*First time visitor to your blog. Found it through Blogher.
I see a woman who has endured much but still has a smile to share with the world as well as wisdom born out of experience of triumph and defeat.
Thank you everyone. These have really shored me up and helped me to “see.” Thanks especially to Allysa. You comment was just what I needed to keep pressing on through intimindating health issues. Resilience!!
I think it’s so facinating how I am so drawn to the picture of you looking all pretty and made up.
I was inspired by these pictures and started taking some of myself.
Again, I am most comfortable when I look “PRETTY.”
Urg. I just wanna turn off that part of my brain.
I’ve been able to battle it enough so that I don’t look pretty every day – I don’t wear makeup – I don’t concern myself overly with clothes. But, then I don’t wanna look in the mirror or take pictures of myself – like I can’t face the evidence.
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