Beautiful Soul Salon

How many years of beauty do I have left?
she asks me.
How many more do you want?
Here. Here is 34. Here is 50.

When you are 80 years old
and your beauty rises in ways
your cells cannot even imagine now
and your wild bones grow luminous and
ripe, having carried the weight
of a passionate life.

When your hair is aflame
with winter
and you have decades of
learning and leaving and loving
sewn into
the corners of your eyes
and your children come home
to find their own history
in your face.

When you know what it feels like to fail
ferociously
and have gained the
capacity
to rise and rise and rise again.

When you can make your tea
on a quiet and ridiculously lonely afternoon
and still have a song in your heart
Queen owl wings beating
beneath the cotton of your sweater.

Because your beauty began there
beneath the sweater and the skin,
remember?

This is when I will take you
into my arms and coo
YOU BRAVE AND GLORIOUS THING
you've come so far.

I see you.
Your beauty is breathtaking.

Author Jeannette Encinias

Image of Mimi Weddell
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/oct/15/mimi-weddell-obituary

Who said feeling and looking your best was only for women? At Bickford, Lori will make sure your loved one’s hair needs are met in the comfort of our salon, “Beehives and Buzz Cuts.” Mr. Philip certainly enjoyed his pampering today.

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It’s a good day when Lori is in the house! Miss Ruth enjoyed her hair cut and style in our Buzz Cuts & Bee Hives Salon.