C.G.Ayling

Tag: Locks of Love

  • The price of hair.

    By Julia.

    Most people have hair, I have brown hair, my best friend (one of many yet so few), as seen in the picture, has blond hair.

    Each year around 13,500 children are diagnosed with cancer in the US 35,000 children are currently in treatment for cancer. Some 25% of all kids who are diagnosed with cancer die.

    So what’s the cost,
    of hair that is?

    I have hair, I bet you have hair too. So why do we cut our hair, without thought?
    Why do we let it fall to the floor, without thinking?
    Why don’t we do something magical?!

    Let’s start a revolution, lets…
    give hair to the little girls and boys who really need it most. A child’s path to survival is brutal, they lose their hair, their eyebrows, their eyelashes. So why not give to them what they might never get back, or might never have the chance to get back?

    There is a magical organization that with your help, helps young children with medical hair loss, cancer included. The organization is called “Locks of Love”.

    Two precious girls who have just given.
    Two precious girls who have just given.

    Now, you see that picture above? That is one of my best friends, and I after two years of careful care, we had just donated our hair to Locks of Love. She gave 10” I gave 12”.
    I have donated my hair 3 times. My goal is 10 times, I encouraged my friend to donate for her first time, and I’m glad I shared that experience with her!

    So grab a best friend, and donate something that’s price is a little unfair…

    {PS. I first posted about this when Julia and her friend made this donation. My take on Julia’s story appears here.}

  • Hair today, gone tomorrow.

    Yesterday, Julia donated 12 inches of her hair to the non-profit organization, Locks of Love. Locks of Love is an extremely worthy organization that takes donations of hair ten inches or longer and uses them to create hairpieces for disadvantaged children who suffer for any form of medical hair loss.  Can you think of any better way to use the hair you shed? I cannot.

    Julia has been donating her magnificent hair to Locks of Love since Elementary school.  Though I can’t be certain of the number of donations she has made, I think this is her 4th.

    hair today
    hair today

    My favorite youngest daughter, Julia, with her locks of love intact.  This picture was taken on Sunday, the day before her donation.

    gone tomorrow
    gone tomorrow

    And here Julia is, a couple of hours after donating her hair.  Though I am unashamedly biased, to me Julia is more beautiful for her loss.  I know that the recipient of her gift, though already as beautiful as every child inherently is, will benefit from its gain.

    Hair is something we take for granted.  We should take nothing for granted…

    If you’re interested to know more about Julia, and discover for yourself just how wonderful a person she is, then please search my blog for poetry. Much of it is Julia’s. Perhaps my favorite of her poems is “The Wind and the Tree“.  In addition to writing poetry, Julia draws, babysits, and most important of all, she truly cares.

    Like all my children, family, and friends, Julia is a constant source of inspiration to me.  Indeed she is also the principle Hero in my epic work, Malmaxa. {Hero is not a typo, but you’ll need to read “Beltamar’s War” to find both her, and why.}