Category Archives: Self-esteem

Crowning Glory

She dresses for the party tonight
simply
sweetly

She fusses with her Hello Kitty necklace
dreamily
purposefully

She lingers in a view of
herself
and her crown of glory

Her “all clear” party and
chestnut
hair jewelry

© 2014 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil

Locks of Love allows people to donate 10” or more of their own hair to help create wigs for low-income girls who have allopecia or are fighting cancer. My favorite donor was a girl in our Attica church who had done it twice before her 16th birthday. Imaginary Garden With Real Toads’ Magaly asked us to write about hair jewelry. This sprang to mind as a survivor adornment, as one friend told me, “until the real thing comes along!”

Peace, Amy

Posted by Sharp Little Pencil in Self-esteem Tags: Cancer, Getting Ready, Girls, hair, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jewelry, Locks of Love, Self-Esteem, Wigs