Her face is like an ancient cameo, Turned brown by the ages.

[funny_herman]

The book Danny gave me for Christmas has ushered me into the New Year with a new vision of what it means to live with one's soul bared. To be different in an unaccepting society, yet living fearlessly in its shadows, thus creating a light of one's own. A light for others to see and to follow, so that they may create their own pools of light, pockets of hope within themselves. It is your God-given struggle to exist as you were meant to be. To bare your soul. You bare it, and you bare it with defiance against everyone who says you should hide it.

For such a closed individual as myself, it is a lot to aspire to.