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inside the chrysalis. In the meantime, I submit this now for wider publication. Not only is she my most cherished firstborn, she touches upon many topics, none more important than depression and suicide prevention, and thus quite appropriate for Know Thyself, Heal Thyself, and I hope <a href="undefined">𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊.</a> agrees.</p></blockquote><blockquote id="24b3"><p>I just finished rereading the essay and have tears and thrills and chills.</p></blockquote><p id="deee">I hope the discerning readers of <a href="undefined">ILLUMINATION-Curated</a> will enjoy it.</p><div id="8c8d" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/self-portrait-in-essay-form-circa-12-2013-7bdac6f1510e"> <div> <div> <h2>Self Portrait Essay (circa 12/2013)</h2> <div><h3>With 12/7/20 Writer’s Note</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*DEnqXRirSDkckZrv)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="f3eb">A couple of days ago I decided the time had arrived for me to create another self-portrait essay.</p><p id="62e7">A dear friend of mine from Medium commented in one of my stories a year or so ago:</p><p id="e2ce"><b>“This personality of yours is beyond me. You came on as a spiritual guy, and yes you still

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are… and then there’s the other side of you, the tech guy, the lawyer, the defender, the fighter and buried deep underneath all that, the romantic. It’s ridiculous how anyone can fit into so many hats, more so if those characteristics are not even related to each other?”</b></p><p id="815f">I replied that all these aspects form my integrated whole.</p><p id="3cf3">Here is my painting that I published in <a href="undefined">Kim Petersen</a>’s <i>Living Out Loud</i>:</p><div id="0834" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/proudly-living-out-loud-e340caf346b9"> <div> <div> <h2>Proudly Living Out Loud</h2> <div><h3>A layered multicolored and complicated self-portrait in essay form</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*DLERvcrRcO_B5XoGbEiOzA.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="fabc">In <a href="https://readmedium.com/i-speak-to-god-and-god-speaks-to-me-23bff8ec2274">Rama</a> I create, with soul-energy surging through my body, inspiring me and breathing wind into my sails,</p><p id="c38a"><a href="https://marcus17043.medium.com/"><b>Marcus</b></a><b> </b>(<a href="https://readmedium.com/meet-gregory-maidman-83c00746a191">Gregory Maidman</a>)</p></article></body>

My self-portraits in essay form

Writer’s image as modified by jules with Canva, inspired by the comments of Rebecca Romanelli

In December 2013, I crafted a self-portrait essay — my first ever piece of self-expository writing — it remains the finest piece I have written to date. I painted images of my spiritual journey, my experiences with codependency and narcissistic abuse, depression, suicide, and unconditional love, plus some light brushstrokes of my favorite foods and song lyrics.

Before I published it in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself in December 2020, I added this introduction:

Greetings from my chrysalis. I wrote this essay in December 2013. It is my first piece of self-expositive writing. It is both my first not-a-legal-brief and personal writing of any sort. I did not write another for six and a half years. While the period in between is essential both to whom I am and becoming, but for the tail-end of the period and anything having to do with my wonderful children, it could be described as the lost years, or, the wasteland. I have several essays in various stages of readiness, some started before, and some inside the chrysalis. In the meantime, I submit this now for wider publication. Not only is she my most cherished firstborn, she touches upon many topics, none more important than depression and suicide prevention, and thus quite appropriate for Know Thyself, Heal Thyself, and I hope 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊. agrees.

I just finished rereading the essay and have tears and thrills and chills.

I hope the discerning readers of ILLUMINATION-Curated will enjoy it.

A couple of days ago I decided the time had arrived for me to create another self-portrait essay.

A dear friend of mine from Medium commented in one of my stories a year or so ago:

“This personality of yours is beyond me. You came on as a spiritual guy, and yes you still are… and then there’s the other side of you, the tech guy, the lawyer, the defender, the fighter and buried deep underneath all that, the romantic. It’s ridiculous how anyone can fit into so many hats, more so if those characteristics are not even related to each other?”

I replied that all these aspects form my integrated whole.

Here is my painting that I published in Kim Petersen’s Living Out Loud:

In Rama I create, with soul-energy surging through my body, inspiring me and breathing wind into my sails,