How Hair Loss Helps Me Combat Shame
Just as shame builds incrementally, I suspect it diminishes in the same way. What makes it diminish? Moving away from your comfort zone toward awkwardness and vulnerability.
Shave Angel: How My Hairdresser Becomes a Ministering Angel
We are in a sacred space together; she is entering a painful moment, doing a defacing, not enhancing act, but with grace, solemnity, and healing. It is an odd ceremony, a liturgy of loss, a ritual of bitter beauty.