a family portrait

With gun laws currently all over the news (supreme court overturning DC's handgun ban and all) I suddenly remembered about a family picture we took a while back...

hair... the long and the short of it

As some of you know... this weekend, I had a little fun with my hair...


I started by putting it up into little ponytails then cutting them all off for a chunky, edgy, spiky look. Surprisingly, this worked pretty well.

But I got to thinking... my hair has been about this short before... why not take it to the next level? I have always been a bit intrigued by the thought of going super duper short... So with the help of my lover, I made the plunge.

Why? Aside from just feeling up to experimenting, I have been feeling a growing desire to go back to my natural color, and embrace my patches of prematurely gray hairs. I've always got a kick out of coloring my hair, I have been fiery red, deep auburn, had blond highlights, been inky black, and, of course, all manner of lovely browns. My own true color is something along the lines of a ferrous metal (ie, iron) and now it is liberally sprinkled with silver especially over my ears. As the distance between my last application of warm brown henna hair coloring has lengthened exposing those iron and gray roots, instead of feeling the need to run to the store for more of that lovely herbal hair stainer I was instead feeling more and more of an urge to cut off all those tinted locks and get back to my roots (so to speak). This was not a spur of the moment thing... I have been contemplating this for several weeks (that counts as pre-meditated, right?)
Anyhow, well see how this goes... particularly as I approach the awkward fuzzy in-between stage of this buzz. But, for now, I am really enjoying this zero maintenance summer haircut!
(And you should have seen the look my bishop gave me on Sunday!)

goodreads

My latest obsession is filling my virtual bookshelves at my new account with goodreads

Do you like to read and talk about books? Then join and add me as a friend. Seriously. I LOVE this kind of stuff! I am fanatically unloading my reading history of the past few years (or further, as the case may be), I now have over 90 books listed and I'm not done yet. Feminist stuff, spiritual stuff, social/political/environmental stuff, non-fiction, fiction (my biggest shelf)... There's my currently reading shelf and my to-read shelf... it's just like at home, but much better organized and doesn't need to be dusted!

Honestly, books are delicious to me. Here is my favorite quote about reading:

“Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts and came up with the book all over his face and hands.” -East of Eden

Ya... that about describes it.

(Oh, and, by the way... If I gave a mean review or a low rating to a book you loved, please don't take it personally. Feel free to rip my reviews to shreds... but gently, please!)