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Looks good to me (I`m not an expert). Gorgeous kitten, too!

It may not be! I started with 44 and now I`ve got 52, with more forming.

Wow, sounds great @soaring-eagle.  "a japanese sister with a cora  joined by a bagpipe 3 mandolines a banjo a nose fluide and stand up bassdoing an almost clasical/operatic version of bob marley tunes" wish I`d seen that!

I`ll keep an eye open for Rainbow Gatherings in my European country.

Playing the violin is what I can do best. Maybe we are always most afraid of what we can do best. Maybe it is our inherent greatness we are most afraid of, not our weaknesses. More than likely, I would say.

Yes, I believe that. I played in a band for years and was never nervous, it was a different atmosphere. But (a) I live in Europe and can`t afford to come to America, and (b) I`m really a classical musician. 

Dreadlocks are helping a lot, because it`s a control issue. The last gig I had, everything - including my hair - went wrong. So I just gave up the control and let everything just be the way it was, and I wasn`t nervous and everything turned out fine and I played better than I ever had before in public. I just have to give up the illusion that I can control anything for everything to turn out great, it seems......

Thanks, @soaring-eagle - you are a great source of inspiration and I often quote you!!

I`m a professional musician; I teach violin and piano and direct the church choir. I often have to accompany the choir or my students on the piano and don`t usually get nervous, but I also give concerts with the violin and then I`m a wreck. Tried everything - tranquillizers (years ago), hypnosis, acupuncture, schnaps - nothing ever worked. Violin`s my first instrument, I play it way better than the piano, but stage fright has always been a problem. 

I agree about the makeup AND the photos!

@tashtash: For sure it`s connected! I don`t like makeup, but I feel better about myself EVERY way since I started dreadlocks, and they`re slowly curing my stagefright, too!

I took hundreds of photos to start with, because I was as fascinated by the process as very new parents are with the development of a new baby. And dreads change a lot at the start; I think it`s better to take one every day and catch a change that may be gone the day after, than to miss a photo and miss the change. Later you won`t take as many, because they won`t change so quickly. But for now, I`d say do what feels right and good and indulge yourself! You can always decide later which ones to post and which ones to bin. Good luck and have fun!

Cleared the cache, no change. My posts keep disappearing too

There was a picture, but all of my pictures have turned into lion heads now, I don`t know why and don`t have time to re-upload them at the moment .

 Embracing the mess.jpg - 2MB

Hi  @soaring-eagle  , I´ve figured out why everyone looks more beautiful with dreads!  It`s this.

Dreadlocks bestow two things on the people who wear them. One is power, and the other is vulnerability. Those two things may sound very different, but they aren`t - they are two sides of the same coin. And the route to both is the same - giving up control. Anyone who still feels the need to exercise control cannot access his true power, because the need to exert control is always rooted in a feeling of powerlessness - power and control are diametrically opposed. Secondly, anyone who feels the need to exercise control cannot be vulnerable either, because control is a kind of phoney protection against vulnerability. Give up the need to control, and you have both power and vulnerability, which is humanness at its core. So of course we look more beautiful with dreadlocks - we are going back to who we really are and embracing both our power and our vulnerability as the human condition. Jai Guru.