Self-deprecating
I am, from time to time, harder on myself than I need to be. But I also appreciate self-deprecating humor. I made an earlier post about my new portrait being a case of turning a sow’s ear into a sow’s ear, and it was a joke, based on that old saying about turning a sow’s ear into a silk purse. If I really felt that bad about the portrait, I probably wouldn’t have posted it for everyone to see. But everyone in the comments felt the need to reassure me that I didn’t really look that bad.
