14valentines focusses on Body Image.Kanji Icons #001 - #102
Kanji icons #103 - #207
Kanji icons #208 - #273
This is the halfway point in the alphabet. More soon!
As before, comments are nice - credit is only necessary for the icons with text - the textless ones may be used as bases.
home, family
208
209 
210 
honesty, integrity, loyalty
211
212 
hunter
213
214 
infinite
215
216 
inner sanctuary
217
218 
inspiration
219
220 
integrity, uprightness
221
222 
inventor
223
224 
joy
225
226 
justice, righteousness
227
228 
karma
229
230 
key
231
232 
laugh, smile
233
234 
235 
leader, chief, boss
236
237 
238
239 
learn
240
241 
life
242
243 
literature
244
245 
living only for the pleasures of the moment
246
247 
248 
logic
249
250 
love, affection
251
252 
love, be in love, beloved
253
254 
loyal, faithful
255
256 
257 
memory, remembrance, remember
258
259 
260 
mirror
261
262 
mom
263
264 
morality, integrity
265
266 
267 
mother
268
269 
mother nature
270
271 
music
272
273 
Body Image is a subject I know something about, being, as the medical profession puts it, 'morbidly obese'. If I go to see the doc, my weight is always the first thing the he focusses on, no matter what ailment I'm suffering from, and if my blood pressure and cholesterol levels get checked, they always end up being redone because the results come back fine and normal and that can't possibly be right, now can it? (Though it invariably, repeatably, is.)
I grew up hearing, 'If you just lost the puppy fat you'd be pretty' and 'She'd be lovely if she weren't so... you know'. I spent a lot of my childhood depressed and on diets, none of which worked worth a damn and did nothing but screw up my metabolism.
The thing is, if I want to, I can still kiss my own toes. *g* Big doesn't mean inflexible. I can still dance the night away, and I can still take home a pretty young thing or a big strapping bodybuilder if I so desire because, yeah, I'm flexible and I have stamina.
I've learned to do what makes me happy, and if that means eating an extra chocolate or three and buying a blouse a size bigger than I need to, just because I like the wiggle room, I smile while I do it.
Nobody's perfect, and real life doesn't come with an airbrush artist ready to smooth away the odd wrinkle or stray hair. Most of the time, the only person who sees your 'flaws' is you. Stop looking for them, please.
Day #4 Kanji Icons #274 - #370
V-Day Kanji Icons #371 - #602