Mine change as I've changed. I've had like 5 now. If I had the artistic ability I'd redo mine to a woman instead of a little girl on a swing wearing an "albatross costume".
Albatross was anchoring to me at a particularly troubling time... it is from Pink Floyd's song Echoes. I have kept it and the nickname for 14 or so years... it brought me out of crisis basically. I morphed from this:
to (one I can't find but it's here on the forum somewhere)
to this:
.... to the one I have now:
Went poking around for a couple missing images and found what I said about my avatar in 2011... interesting how perspectives change:
"The avatar is the mental/emotional armor I put on to move around and do what needs doing... a sense of safety and protection that one day I hope I won't need anymore.
The nic is my totem animal and being a bird (this has been my nic for a decade) was a way to be able to shift my view of things up and away from myself so I could see things from a different perspective... a "birds eye" view where I could see the lay of the land and learn to ride life like the wind or the waves... instead of being knocked about or knocked out."
Didn't find the missing images/avatars though. One I really miss. I know it's here somewhere... a naked woman covering herself with a stoic look, almost pained... with white wings and scribbles over her head. She was in a yellow background. Before the woman "shedding her feathers".
