{"id":1899,"date":"2009-10-30T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2009-10-30T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T00:32:00","slug":"a-good-hair-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2009\/10\/30\/a-good-hair-day\/","title":{"rendered":"a good hair day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midday yesterday a neighbor dropped by for a neighborly chat (more specifically, she brought her pathology textbook so I could ogle the osteosarcoma x-ray images). I apologized for how I was dressed when I came to the door, explaining that my beachy clothes were rather soggy because I&#8217;d just gotten home from paddling with a teammate. Then John poked his head around the corner, he also damp and shirtless. He&#8217;d just stepped out of the shower. We joked a bit about the silliness of us both being home mid-day in a state of <em>deshabille<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that we met for lunch so I could cut his hair&#8211;so he could look just a bit less <a href=\"http:\/\/makeitsomarketing.tripod.com\/PICNEILGAIMANJKIRBYTRIBUTEFORBLOG.jpg\">mangy-Neil-Gaiman<\/a> and a bit more <a href=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/people\/i\/2007\/specials\/sma07\/hair\/adrian_grenier.jpg\">GQ<\/a>. I&#8217;m not the world&#8217;s best hairstylist, but I&#8217;ve been cutting John&#8217;s locks since we were first dating. There&#8217;s little else that I love more than plunging my fingers deep into his dark curls (and for those who&#8217;ve ever heard the story of how we first met, you know that that lovely head of hair was what first caught my eye).<\/p>\n<p>So last night when I was at the Regina Spektor concert, I was so glad that she played Samson in her encore set&#8230;because it&#8217;s long been a song that reminded me of John&#8211;there&#8217;s something so powerful about his lovely hair, if only because it&#8217;s just one of those many things that make my heart melt whenever he steps into view.<\/p>\n<p><em>PS: I&#8217;m glad he passed the hair genes on to at least one our kids. 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