Happy New Year
eGift with Be….A Woman by Kim MacGregor & Arline Malakian
We are wishing you all the very best for a warm and wonderful 2009!! Having recharged the batteries, we are feeling ready for inspiration and a friend’s beautiful new book, is just the ticket!! If you have not seen it, you need to read Be….a Woman, expressions of life by Kim MacGregor and Arline Malakian, currently available at Chapters.
From the introduction, Kim writes – “Since we began working on Be….a Woman, Arline and I found ourselves on a journey we had not fully anticipated. Though the idea of showing images of real women and discovering the individual attributes that help to define their beauty was our primary ambition, we had no idea how much we would learn about ourselves and how deeply we would fall in love with the process of learning more about strangers. Living the experience of creating this book has far exceeded our greatest expectations.”
Trading in a career as a model to dedicate her life to changing the image of what a role model should be, Kim joined forces with internationally renowned photographer Arline Malakian who was featured in Dove’s documentary for W Network - Beauty Quest. They embarked on a life-changing, two-year journey to meet and capture the essence of extraordinary-ordinary women from all over the world. They have combined 35 years of skills and experience, in Be…a Woman: expressions of life, to create, through a marriage of words and images, a fresh new vision inviting women to celebrate their unique power and grace.
A great sentiment to start 2009, comes from Be…a Woman….
“As women, perhaps we need to draw more from our shared experiences than from the desire to be “better than,” “thinner than,” or “more successful than.” Casting aside the limitations and inadequacies that haunt us, whether defined by the media or self-induced by rigidly categorizing our entire lives by what we consider to be our “story,” we discover that we are more than we think we are. We are enough! No justification needed…no excuses! We can all shine! We are all beautiful! Beauty is contagious!”
