Huffington Post :: Can A Haircut Change Your Life..?

Tried to leave this over at HuffPo, but it was umpteen words too long.. Imagine THAT, if you will.. :giggle:

That's cool, though.. This way I can dusty it up with a couple of related websites..

Yeah, in response to Liz Jones' Can A Haircut Change Your Life? (June 24, 2008 10:22 AM), these Fingertips (apparently overly) meandered.......

Glad I came in to visit out of curiosity.. Have contemplated Locks Of Love often, maybe even as to having my hair donated after my Time has come.. Unfortunately, this kid's most definitely a (bleach) bottle baby..

Used to be one of those that washed obsessively every day.. All I can say is :: DON'T TO DO THAT..!

My own has grown by leaps and bounds since the worst of my depression hit where the energy to wash it every day left.. Am lucky if it's washed once a week these days (whether it needs it or not).. In return, though, my hair now graciously tickles places it never dreamed of reaching in the past.. And that length comes in spite of the very best efforts of a determined one gallon Shop Vac one day last year..

Don't ask, I'd have to relive the experience that came this close to being one of the weirdest guffaw-inducing 9-1-1 calls on the Pickens County Sheriff's Department's daily blotter.. You know you've got a certain type of reputation when walking around the front yard looking for handtools with a Shop Vac attached to your head does not alert anyone that maybe, just maybe, something is slightly askew in your Life..

Life's Lesson Learned: Yes, Virginia, you can fully dismantle a vacuum cleaner attached to your head with one hand and in one afternoon if absolutely necessary.....

But I digress..

With respect to my hair's health, after years of running the gamut of expensive over-the-counter shampoos, conditioners, and treatments within that cycle of obsessiveness, today's staid, highly stress reducing regimen consists of:

• Lander's 32 oz. Lavender 3-in-1 combo (shampoo, conditioner, body wash-aren't they all..?) :: ~$2.50
• Suave conditioner 22 oz. :: ~$1.49
• Family Dollar Store's Hair Detangler 10 oz. spritzer :: $1.00

Adore my hair stylist, Cindy over House Of Style in Ball Ground.. Just can't afford to see her as often as one would like..

Cindy does exactly as I ask, exactly, regardless of how she knows it will not be perfect to the professional standards she knows when I walk out her business' front door.. Instead, she's one of the few hairdressers I've known in this Life who RESPECTS that hair can be a person's Achilles' Heel..

Would LOVE to hear personally, firsthand, of more hair stylist-related non-profits.. Yup, non-profits that do nothing but serve by lopping off people's hair.. Professional attention to one's hair leads to a chain reaction of a better perceived personal image, more confidence, more likely to reach outside one's current state of affairs..

Here in Georgia, Hosea's Feed The Hungry and Homeless gets that part of the overall picture.. They offer haircuts as part of their service weekends to their local community..

Things are getting tougher and tougher, near literally by the hour.. Each day that passes, for some untold number of us out here in the real World, personal image becomes one of the very, very few things left to us by our Life's circumstances.. It does not make a bad place to start when actively offering others a hand up in our local communities..

Cyber hugs from Talking Rock..

Mother Jones :: Schlock and Awwww: Commercializing Altruism..

Excellent observation from Jon Mooallem over at Mother Jones entitled......

Schlock and Awwww: Commercializing Altruism..

Been intending for ages to post that, especially with all the hype that will be given to Super Bowl commercials very soon, how grand it would be if advertiser marketing campaigns went 180 on the gabillions of dollars spent on their commercials by going extremely simplistic then openly expressing that dollars once frivously spent on garish commercials were now going to philanthropic efforts in local communities..

Freedom of Speech existing as it so grandly does, though, there would be a guaranteed adverse effect on some level.. Takes little imagination to envision the organized consumer-driven campaigns that would erupt demanding advertisers stop patronizing some given [non-profit] or consumer dollars would be diverted to competitors immediately.. :sigh:

Back to reflecting on Jon's cool observation of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.. My own take comes from walking in these Shoes: I know what the temperature was inside my house last winter and got a pretty dadgum good clue what it will be again this year..

And then I cry for all those whose Shoes are even more worn than Mine for they will never see the likes of the Ty Penningtons of the World and instead will rely on the Human Kindness within their local communities to offer them a hand back up as productive members of Society..

It can happen.. It does every day.. It begins with extremely unselfish, proactive disclosures of Life-affecting, Life-altering, Life-saving information.. No better Time than the Present.. :wink:

Soggy cyber hugs from my favorite local L with an extra special one going out to Jon..