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corona diary

Corona Diary: Grey

written by Jana May 18, 2020

SIP Day 59, wearing black tank and black yoga pants; 71 degrees outside today and rainy all day.

A year ago I stopped dyeing my hair on the anniversary of my bone cancer diagnosis. The anniversary is always a tough time for me–last year was even more difficult than usual, because my sister was fighting stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

It seemed a time that I wanted to visibly mark that I was still alive and I was growing older, older than I thought I’d ever be. Every time I looked in the mirror and saw my grey I realized how fortunate I was to be alive, and it simultaneously reminded me that my sister’s days were numbered.

I didn’t really announce to anyone that I was going grey, I just let it happen. My son remarked that every time he saw me I was more grey and he said I was wearing it well. I don’t know if I am wearing it well or not well, but it is “me” now and I like this streak of white that edges the front of my bangs and that fans out across the right side of my hairline.

I have many friends that have stopped dyeing their hair during this pandemic and I wonder how many of them will mark this period of time as one when they were celebrating their ageing, and not trying to hide the fact that they are growing older.

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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