(Posting on Monday since Live Journal was finicky all weekend…)

On this humid, muggy Saturday I am grateful for curly hair. 
I know. That sounds rather trite and shallow.
But you have no idea what a bold act of self-love it is. 

I hated my hair for 30-some years.
Fought it. Pulled it straight.
Bemoaned both curl and frizz.
Wished for Dorothy Hammill's bob and gloss.

Well, guess what? 
I'm over all that. 

Even on this wet day when things get truly follicly anarchist, I am grateful.
I am grateful that I don't own a hairbrush, that I don't need a cut very often.
I'm even grateful that I don't look all "pulled together."

Pulled together is overrated. 
Acceptance and surrender, though, aren't.
It may be a little birds' nesty today, but it's my birds' nest.
And I'm grateful.