Unforgettable

she is a mother who can think only of the welfare of her children.
she is a wife who wonders if her husband will still love her.
she is a daughter horrified of the thought of breaking the news to her aging parents.
she is a sister, as soulmate, the best girl you know.
she is a friend, a real bosom buddy.
she is a neighbor who now needs a friend.
she is an executive who has lost her control.
she is an employee who wonders how she will keep her job, pay her bills, take care of her child, while trying to recover.
she is a patient who fears losing her own life.
she is a doctor who must now save her own life.
she is a beauty, who will always be beautiful.
she is a woman who never did feel beautiful.
she is famous now and wishes she wasn't.
she is a stranger who you can't see, but she can see you.
she is a person whom you have yet to meet.
she is you, she is me.

Printed on the back of Arlina's bottle of body wash. I read it every morning as I shower, but it wasn't until wrote this that I understood what it was about.

A little off the top

Arlina took me to her stylist for my "pre-ordination" haircut today. I generally stick with the generic haircutting places, since I only get a haircut about 5 times a year. What's the point? It just grows back. But she wanted me to have a good haircut, so I went along and spent the extra dough.

The stylist's name was Michelle. She likes to talk. She kept up a running monologue throughout, telling me things about my hair I never even suspected ("you have a lot of cowlicks"). She asked me how I like it cut in the back, and I told her it didn't really matter since I only looked at it 5 times a year, when a stylist thrusts a mirror into my hand. She reminded me that a lot of people will be looking at the back of my head, so it should be cut nicely. Ok, then.

She did a pretty good job. Actually it looks like almost every other haircut I have ever submitted to. What's the difference between an $8.00 haircut and a $30.00 haircut? Twenty-two dollars. Arlina likes it though, and that's the important thing.