shooting the breeze/feeling the breeze

I shaved my head shorter than I intended to. Feeling the breeze in it is lovely (except when it's too cold around my ears). And I've discovered a breeze can be generated just by walking through a room, you don't have to be outside to feel the air move around your scalp! It's only when I catch sight of myself I get taken aback - fortunately I don't look in a mirror very often!!. It will grow; it's a good job I'm not the sort of person fussed by appearance. Maybe the skinhead look is apt for delivering hope not hate leaflets, it turns a stereotype on its head.

Sporting an alternative look requires confidence. I expect I will be on the receiving end of people's dismay and that can sometimes be hard to hear when most of us just want to feel the love not the judgement. Some folk have to live with that all the time, I wonder how hard that is?

Today I'm feeling pretty pleased with how I'm handling some judgemental views about my parenting. Because I don't go around saying others should live like me, it still surprises me when I hear others are talking about how I ought to do things better. I'm going to try and stick with this quote :D

Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

~ Yehuda Berg