2013 Twas the Year of the Selfie

Apparently, it was the word of the year, dreaded by some, followed by many, the most popular art form there is, deep in our subconscious, our look in the mirror, now shared for the world to see, to snicker at, to fantasize about, to connect us in the least and most human of ways.


I'll usually take one when I'm bored, when I need to feel moored back to a distant time of pitter-pattering and aloneness, when I need to check back to that ageless primitive state, uncertain of the spinning world, like I used to check myself in the toaster or the glare of my calculator, not that it really mattered, but it could put me a tizzy ... do I really look that bad? or oh ... I kind of made myself look ok.