Sunday, November 28, 2010

Sunday Sketch: Love Locks



Today's Sunday Sketch  is in celebration of one of  our chatters in the Friends in Healing community, Pea,  who has patiently been growing out her hair for two and a half years.  This past Thursday she washed, combed, and blew dry her waist length hair and made her way to the salon to make a wonderful donation to Locks of Love, an organization who's mission is to return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children. The children receive hair prostheses free of charge or on a sliding scale, based on financial need.


What a loving and quite personal way to literally "give of yourself!"  I think of Pea and all the generous other donators who have spent years taking such good care of their hair with plans to donate to a child in need.  And today I think of the children, for whom these hair pieces may be one simple way of bringing back a part of themselves. ♥
 
 


14 comments:

  1. great post. wonderful and whimsical drawing. I have always admired people who donate their hair. it's really a great cause!
    love your drawing. the colors and style - very inspiring! xo

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  2. awesome drawing! well done pea :D such a good cause! love this post :) xx

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  3. Great sketch, and a good reminder to me. I just got my hair cut and have it ready to mail to Locks of Love. I have been growing mine a little over a year and have about 14 inches to donate. This will be my second time. I love donating it to such a worthy cause.

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  4. what a lovely picture,,,and a great cause...thank you for doing that...

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  5. I really like your art. It looks like stippling to me, yes? I havent done anything like that since high school. I should try that again sometime soon. :)

    Adn what a great cause to be supporting! :)

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  6. I just really love this
    Sunday Sketch. I hope Pea enjoyed it, too.

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  7. Such a sweet and generous thing to do. Lovely that you honor Pea in this way.

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  8. oh this is such a wonderful way to change things for someone....very inspiring and great piece!!!

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  9. Lovely image and post. I found out last night my sister-in-law will soon be losing her hair. :(

    So nice to help others in that way.

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  10. what a generous thing to do pea. An inspiration.

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  11. Beautiful drawing for a beautiful cause.

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  12. Love this post! Means alot to me...Thanks so much! :)

    ~Pea ♥

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  13. I am LOVING Sunday Sketches ... Amazing Work!

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