When I walked into my friend's salon, I had no plans to make a change, I
was going to just have her cover the gray. But as I looked through the
swatches of hair color, I decided to take a risk and make a HUGE change.
I went from brownish blonde to RED and I love it! When I got home, I
grabbed my camera to take photos for Facebook and I was shocked by what I
saw in my self-portraits. I was smiling. I looked happy. I feel like a
new woman and my old self all that the same time. And for the first time
in a long time, I like what I see in those photos. Who knew a turning
point could come from a tube of hair color?
Lisa-Jo Baker (lisajobaker.com) hosts a weekly event on her blog called "Five Minute Friday". The rules are 1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking. 2. Link back here and invite others to join in. 3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community.. So here's my first try at this. Today's topic was Roots. Roots – I think about my grandparents who lived on a farm until my grandfather’s diabetes worsened and they moved to a town with a hospital nearby. My father still says he wished he could have kept that farm. I think of my grandmother who was a widow for 20 years. Every year she would stand over my PaPa’s grave, wishing she was with him. I think of my parents, a product of those grandparents, how hard my father worked to put 2 girls through...
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