Openness and transparency

It is all in the attitude.

Our bodies convey out attitude to the world also.

A gaze straight at the world portrays who and what we are.

If we are able to look straight into the camera, at the world.

It tells something about us.

I have never been afraid to tell the world who and what I am.

Somehow, that ability to dissimulate has never been one of my gifts.

Because of my openness, my mother held me to be naive and gullible,

And called me stupid under all the terms available,

She did it with love and fondness though it still left its scars.

And took me a lifetime to overcome that feeling of being less.

Then came helpful friends who tried to pound it into me,

Not to be so open or so obvious.

At this phase of my life, openness and transparency is a plus.

I stand in all honesty and transparency before God.

I am amongst those able to do it.

A humble and contrite heart, O Lord, thou wilst not spurn,

is a favorite phrase I repeat often.