"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." M. Scott Peck

Self Portraits can invoke a sense of pride and at the same time be a painful journey. For my contribution I have opted to reflect in the mirror of time.

I tried to portray a picture of myself that was vulnerably self revealing. I chose a current picture and then added the elements of a child's face, depicting the past and an old woman's face, the future. I set these all in a background of a clock. In my life, age is staring at me constantly. I generally am the oldest student in my classes. Changing careers at this point in my life was never the plan, but became a necessity. It is both the hardest thing I have ever done and the most exciting. There is a part of me that still feels young and childish, but I also realize that I look through the eyes of an old woman. Time is melting away, urgency constricts my breath, and regret haunts me; thus the melting effect on the clock.

But the beauty is I value myself enough to change my life, to change my time, to change my future. I am grateful for the opportunity and strength to do that; and it makes every experience and every class and every classmate a joy added to my life and journey.