Beautiful lengths photo a day, day 3

Hello all!

It is time for day 3: flashback! 


Haha, this was when I was in a musical/choir special that was called "British Invasion".  We sang songs in the 60s.  This was the last time I made my big chop 3-4 years ago from where it is now to a 60s-ish bob.  I think it's interesting to see the progress that I've made.

And that is my little brother beside me; we're a little crazy.

Stay tuned for day 4: Going out hair

There is hope for humanity Day 3: the quiet place project

How many of us can remember a time when we experience true silence?  Where our minds weren't talking, our fingers weren't tapping away at one technology device or another, we couldn't hear the cars or the airplanes or talking on any level.  It was silent, and we were, for once, listening to that silence.  I think that we've all lost, on some level, the ability to listen to the silence and understand what it really means.  I know that even when I'm trying to focus on nothing and pay attention to quiet and to calm my mind, my brain is still running at a million miles an hour and trying desperately to create some sort of white noise.  I thrive on it.

The quiet place project is here to help us achieve that silent time again.  This awesome little site offers several different ways of helping you connect with that lost concept of quiet meditation.  The first part being the general experience and explanation of why you should choose the quiet place.  After that you have the opportunity to experience relaxation techniques and after that, my personal favorite, the thoughts room.  The thoughts room is wonderful; you are encouraged to share every single thought that you have that's weighing you down and watch as the words simply fall off the screen and away from your heart and mind.  There's no one who can read what you've typed, can't respond, can't do anything.  It is all for the benefit of you getting them off your chest and out of your brain.

The quiet place also offers soothing music to listen to while you're experiencing the site, and I know that is some way that might be defeating the purpose, but honestly I would rather not let my mind's internal speakers go haywire without noise.  Instead, I think the music is a great way to slowly acclimate yourself to becoming accustomed to lack of outside noise and speech.

Give this website a try, sometimes I use it just as a way to relax a little at work, but mostly it's a reminder to me that it's so important that we just take a break from the world and sit back and enjoy the quiet.  I think that, for me personally, when I don't take that time to be in the quiet, I lose my ability to really focus on prayer and God and meditating on His Word.  I've become so bombarded by the noise and so distracted by all the difference stimuli that I can't focus spiritually as easily as I used to.

Well this ends this week's worth of "Hope for humanity" series.  I will start up again on Monday and I wish you all a great weekend!

Project: How long can we make my curls last! Day 3

Alrighty everyone, so I am becoming more and more impressed with my curlformers and the results of this week as each day passes.

For a little background on today; I went to bed feeling really not great at all so I didn't really care about how my hair was arranged on the pillow; I passed out around 9:30 and tossed and turned until some random person texted me at one in the morning saying they were the tall guy that I met at Old C's.  Yeah....wrong number.

So I woke up, took my shower, didn't my makeup and clothes and then brushed out my hair with my paddle brush, I didn't comb at all and here are my results:

I am seriously impressed.  These are nice soft waves that have no product in them, went through a hot shower so they got a little steamed even though I tried to keep them out of the water as much as possible, and were brushed out.  Very awesome.  Also, I'm not noticing extra grease buildup or anything on my scalp so I could easily another day with curls, I'm going to see what they look like tomorrow morning and keep you posted.