TheBanyanTree: haircut

[auntie sash]

You are right.  You would love her.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Sherry Lester <mamalester at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Monique, I just returned from across state and two
> days of the visitation and funeral for my brother,
> three years my junior.  He was 61.  When we were
> young, it was just the two of us for 10 years before a
> second marriage and more brothers, five to be
> specific, joined us.  It was an amazing two days,
> meeting family I'd never met before and them meeting
> me.  Since my brother's life was intimately, daily
> entertwined with theres they were in a very different
> state of grief than I since I saw him and communicated
> not even once a year.  Even tho the situation left me
> feeling 90% full of warmth and joy and feeling much
> compassion for those he left and 10% my own wave of
> occassional sadness, I'm raw.  That even isn't the
> right word, exposed isn't the right word.  And it's
> difficult to get to my point without a right word, but
> here goes.  When I opened your story about your
> haircut there was nothing between me your words.  It
> was as if your humor lifted me up and tossed me
> laughing into the air and as soon as I softly landed,
> you tossed me again.  I just love your style and have
> to assume I would love you also.  You have a gift that
> I so appreciate and whenever I see a writing from you
> I can't wait to read it. You never know who will be
> reading your words and how they will receive them.  I
> want you to know that today, your words brought one
> woman (and I suspect many other men and women) a good
> laugh and an appreciation of you and your willingness
> to share your gift.  Sherry
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Live to the point of tears.
- Albert Camus