The Honor Was Mine...

greenwitch
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 01:36:40 +0000

Speaking of donating things - I was considering growing out my hair and donating it. I looked around a bit online and it was dismaying. Sorry, being more than 5% gray excludes you but apparently, the vast amount of donated hair does not get used to make wigs for people who have lost their hair anyway. It is usually sold, for about $3/ponytail!

However, you can donate any quantity of any type of hair, animal fur, feathers etc., to be used for cleaning up oil and other toxic spills. So, I might still do that and not worry about the gray or about the length or anything. I have very thick hair - might as well put it to use! I’m going to tell my haircutter too because they can use all the scraps.

http://matteroftrust.org/297/clean-wave-program (there are links to other hair donating services)

Also, at the post office today I was behind this young man who got a phone call. He was trying to send an overnight envelope and wasn’t sure he had enough money and to make things worse, his car had been impounded for camera tickets he had never gotten in the mail since he had recently moved. He was still in pretty good spirits but it’s just one of those awful situations where your bill gets higher and higher each day and you don’t know how you’re going to pay if off. And sure enough, he didn’t have enough cash for the overnight envelope.

Luckily, I found him in the parking lot and offered him some money for his package. He tried to refuse but I insisted. It was surprisingly emotional for me because I have been in dire situations like that in the past and I remember well how bad it feels, even though it was such a long time ago. I found myself fighting tears but at least he got his envelope sent.