“Getting in touch with [ this feminine, receptive side of our nature ] can be a life-transforming experience because what we’re really talking about when we talk about receptivity is how we can be open to growing and evolving into more enlightened human beings.” <\/i>— Lauren Artress,, N SWEET COMPANY: CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN ABOUT LIVING A SPIRITUAL LIFE<\/p>\n
My hair started graying when I was 18. By the time I was 25 my silver streaks (on one so young) were frequently the topic of spontaneous conversation in elevators and check-out lines. I enjoyed the attention, the distinctiveness of my look. As a child, my mother and all my Aunties had silver hair. They were such good women I believed having gray hair meant you had a connection to the angels.<\/p>\n
After a serious car accident 13 years ago, my graying accelerated. (Interestingly, my once cheerio-curls no longer sprung like corkscrews about my head.) My skin also took on an ashen hue given the stress of the injuries I sustained. Conversations in elevators and check-out lines were equally colorless. I started to dye my hair to keep questions about my health to a minimum. Four years ago, I developed an allergy to hair dye and had to go au natural<\/i>. I had no idea whether the outgrowth would be gleaming or dull and overcast. <\/p>\n
Fortunately for me and for those who have to look at me, my hair came in bright white. I am again engaged in fashionable conversation. My eyes look bluer than they are, I appear wise — or at least experienced. The years that it’s taken to accumulate all that white have made me a lot more comfortable with who I am — and am not. It’s a good look and a good place to be. I feel Womanly in a way I never did before.<\/p>\n
All this furor about President Obama’s graying coif <\/i>amuses me. We all know the job takes a toll on the Presidential Head. Maybe a president needs to be connected with the angels to give the world a little luster.<\/p>\n
Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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