The Crow: bangs versus fringe

Saturday, November 12, 2011

For Lucy.

Bangs, circa 1954

My second grade school picture. Haircut by my Mom.

Most recent cut

I had asked for what we used to call, back in the 1950s, a pixie cut. My hairdresser, a student at the local 'beauty' school and all of 19 years old, asked me to describe it. I told her wispy bangs and short on sides and back. I believe she did as best she could, given my poor descriptions. Besides, the cut was inexpensive, which I needed it to be, and it's only hair - it will grow back out. Someday. Maybe. I hope.

Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)