Green Glitter Girl

A time I experienced a One Act was when I was about eight years old. My mom had taken me to the barber to get a haircut. It was close to Christmas Eve. I hated those pixie cuts (this was in the 1960s!). The barber was very intuitive and could tell I was very sad. Not just about the haircut, but all the losses and abuse that was happening in my house. Of course he didn't know these details but something in him was very empathic.

At the end of the haircut he put some green glitter on my head and said these words:

"Always remember that you sparkle!"

I was riveted by this loving attention and I didn't want to move or ever wash my hair so as not to lose the glitter.

Over the next couple decades when I felt at my lowest, his words DID come back to me. I would think to myself: "I sparkle"! This would elevate and encourage me.

I tried to find the barber shop and the barber to thank him but it had been thirty years and the shop was no longer there. I will forever be grateful for this act of compassion and how it has continued to inspire me to this day.