here’s to haircuts and transition!

Jarrett – You bet we felt it. We were inundated with junk mail and phone calls before election day – me from the Republicans, because I’m registered Independent, and my parents from the Obama people because they’re Democrats. And being Pennsylvanians we were a bit embarassed by all the attention.

Jo – Cool! I’m looking forward to that poem.

Natalie – There’s a thought.

David – People are pretty cool about it. It’s nt the first time I’ve had short hair; I think my last haircut was in 2003. I had dreads in the 90s.

I did keep the ponytail, thinking it might come in handy for some kind of art project sometime. Or I could simply staple it to the inside back of a ball cap any time I want to have long hair again.

beth – Aagh! I hate that whiney tune.

Keith – I checked out that site – thanks! – but they say they don’t accept gray hair, and mine’s well over half gray.

Christine – Good for you! Yes, and I do hope that a permanent grassroots network or networks of activists grow from that.

I’ll probably grow my hair out again if the wars don’t stop. I like short hair, but when everyone else is imitating the soldier look (a mighty cheap way of paying homage, it seems to me), I can’t go along.

I volunteered for Obama, the first political campaign I’ve ever worked for, at the ripe old age of 48. What has moved me the most about him is his insistence that we are the ones who have won, that this election is about us, not him.

Great post.

Erikka and Gwyn donated their hair last year.