Reflections: Appreciating Your True Self in the Mirror

Each thought the other was her

As I was sifting through photos to find pictures for use in a collaborative book project I’m working on, I came across the photo at right, which is one of my favorite photos of my twin daughters. They’d just learned to walk and had toddled up to the mirror. As they gazed in the mirror, I asked, “which one is you?”

Each daughter pointed to the image of her sister.

I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised because, having been adopted from a Chinese orphanage, they’d probably never seen a mirror to know their own image. Each daughter had only ever seen her sister.

Rediscovery of the photo made me think about women and their reflections in mirrors.

I’ve recently been thrilled to reconnect, through social media, with friends I knew a lifetime ago…in grade school, high school, college and my year in France…