Before you rest all the blame on Taylor Swift, keep in mind that she might not ever see the letters that the security detail block. They are probably zealous in their job, and she probably has other things to worry about than whether the security folks are making proper decisions. I'm guessing that she's not a trained security person anyhow, so she'd leave it to the "experts."
Still, I'm sorry you were treated that way. At least you tried.
* 10 inches measured tip to tip is the minimum length needed for a hairpiece. * Hair must be in a ponytail or braid before it is cut. * Hair must be clean and completely dry before it is mailed in. * Place the ponytail or braid inside of a plastic bag, and then inside of a padded envelope. * If you wish to receive an acknowledgment for your hair donation, please fill out the hair donation form, or write your name and e-mail address or mailing address on a full size separate sheet of paper and include inside the envelope. We cannot acknowledge donors who do not send their name and address according to these instructions. * All hair donations must be mailed to Locks of Love at:
234 Southern Blvd. West Palm Beach, FL 33405-2701 * **IMPORTANT** When mailing your donation, please make sure that you are sending it with adequate postage. The U.S. Postal Service has notified Locks of Love that many donations are being sent without enough postage, and these packages will be returned to sender! To ensure adequate postage, please take your donation to your local post office. * Thank you!
Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. We meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure. The prostheses we provide help to restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.
Mission Statement
Our 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.
Donate Hair
Please Note: Anyone can cut your hair as long as the guidelines listed below are followed. We encourage all of our donors to go to a salon they are already familiar with to ensure their comfort when donating.
GUIDELINES FOR ACCEPTABLE DONATIONS
* Hair that is colored or permed is acceptable. * Hair cut years ago is usable if it has been stored in a ponytail or braid. * Hair that has been bleached (usually this refers to highlighted hair) is not usable. If unsure, ask your stylist. We are not able to accept bleached hair due to a chemical reaction that occurs during the manufacturing process. **If the hair was bleached years ago and has completely grown out it is fine to donate. * Hair that is swept off of the floor is not usable because it is not bundled in a ponytail or braid. * Hair that is shaved off and not in a ponytail or braid is not usable. If shaving your head, first divide hair into multiple ponytails to cut off. * We cannot accept dreadlocks. Our manufacturer is not able to use them in our children’s hairpieces. We also cannot accept wigs, falls, hair extensions or synthetic hair. * Layered hair is acceptable if the longest layer is 10 inches. * Layered hair may be divided into multiple ponytails.
* Curly hair may be pulled straight to measure the minimum 10 inches. * 10 inches measured tip to tip is the minimum length needed for a hairpiece. #
Please Note: # Shorter hair will be separated from the ponytails and sold to offset the manufacturing costs. Although the shorter hair cannot be used in the hairpieces, it still greatly helps to reduce costs. # Gray hair will be accepted and sold to offset the manufacturing costs. # Colored hair is not usable if it is colored over bleached hair. # Because Locks of Love creates custom hairpieces for each child, we are unable to accept donations of wigs, falls, hair extensions or synthetic hair.
I don't think socialism will work if the human heart remains selfish. (I don't think capitalism will work either, but that's another topic.)
Yes, it is a good thing if a factory is owned by the workers themselves. That way, the factory cannot be moved to another cheaper country all of a sudden, out from under the workers' feet.
But how many of us really have the unselfish attitude required to not hold a little bit extra for ourselves? Are we willing to be paid the same wage as everyone else? Are we willing to be paid a lower wage while others get more, while we wait and work for progress? Are we willing to do this quietly, without anger, bitterness, or protest?
I often dream of running a communal restaurant, where the poor could work and live and eat, and the public could come and buy cheap, healthy food. Pipe dream? I hope not. But I know I need to face the fact that within myself there is already a battle, just on the grounds of the dream, where I want to own the restaurant, and control it, and make sure it does not deviate from its founding principles. I don't want greed to take over and ruin my dream, yet I see that same greed already at work in me, desiring control and power to fend off greed in others.
Would I be willing to sell my home to help buy a restaurant to make this dream come true? And would I be willing to give up control to the rest of the workers?
These kinds of questions are so fundamental, and I think they need to be answered in our own hearts, before any call to "workers unite!" will be useful. I'm not yet sure I have all the answers, so calling for workers to unite seems premature. Once strife dies in every heart, *then* unity will begin to be possible. Until then, each of us has to cross over to the strife-less side one at a time.
"No one could have told me anything" - yes, that´s exactly the problem with juveniles drinking and taking drugs; on the contrary, they´ll laugh at you because you are so conservative as not to try them. A colleague of mine (well, that was years ago) once told me, but you have to experience that at least once in your life, waking up in the morning and not knowing how you came home.... (It was carnival at that time and everyone was wondering why I didn´t drink alcohol but I don´t need alcohol to have fun ;-) ) Well, as much as I know my luck, I would not have come home but found myself lying somewhere on the pavement and that´s an experience I do NOT need.... ;-)
Just don´t agree with your "if there´s a god, life is a cruel joke". Absolutely not. No joke. It´s a kind of exam and one should try to pass it so that you can come to heaven one day. And the best is, no matter whatever you did wrong in your life, there´s always a way to return to HIM.... even if people won´t forgive, HE does when the sinner changes his or her mind....
RSS
Before you rest all the blame on Taylor Swift, keep in mind that she might not ever see the letters that the security detail block. They are probably zealous in their job, and she probably has other things to worry about than whether the security folks are making proper decisions. I'm guessing that she's not a trained security person anyhow, so she'd leave it to the "experts."
Still, I'm sorry you were treated that way. At least you tried.
- Chris
HOW TO DONATE
* 10 inches measured tip to tip is the minimum length needed for a hairpiece.
* Hair must be in a ponytail or braid before it is cut.
* Hair must be clean and completely dry before it is mailed in.
* Place the ponytail or braid inside of a plastic bag, and then inside of a padded envelope.
* If you wish to receive an acknowledgment for your hair donation, please fill out the hair donation form, or write your name and e-mail address or mailing address on a full size separate sheet of paper and include inside the envelope. We cannot acknowledge donors who do not send their name and address according to these instructions.
* All hair donations must be mailed to Locks of Love at:
234 Southern Blvd.
West Palm Beach, FL 33405-2701
* **IMPORTANT** When mailing your donation, please make sure that you are sending it with adequate postage. The U.S. Postal Service has notified Locks of Love that many donations are being sent without enough postage, and these packages will be returned to sender! To ensure adequate postage, please take your donation to your local post office.
* Thank you!
WHAT IS LOCKS OF LOVE?
Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. We meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure. The prostheses we provide help to restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.
Mission Statement
Our 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.
Donate Hair
Please Note: Anyone can cut your hair as long as the guidelines listed below are followed. We encourage all of our donors to go to a salon they are already familiar with to ensure their comfort when donating.
GUIDELINES FOR ACCEPTABLE DONATIONS
* Hair that is colored or permed is acceptable.
* Hair cut years ago is usable if it has been stored in a ponytail or braid.
* Hair that has been bleached (usually this refers to highlighted hair) is not usable. If unsure, ask your stylist. We are not able to accept bleached hair due to a chemical reaction that occurs during the manufacturing process. **If the hair was bleached years ago and has completely grown out it is fine to donate.
* Hair that is swept off of the floor is not usable because it is not bundled in a ponytail or braid.
* Hair that is shaved off and not in a ponytail or braid is not usable. If shaving your head, first divide hair into multiple ponytails to cut off.
* We cannot accept dreadlocks. Our manufacturer is not able to use them in our children’s hairpieces. We also cannot accept wigs, falls, hair extensions or synthetic hair.
* Layered hair is acceptable if the longest layer is 10 inches.
* Layered hair may be divided into multiple ponytails.
* Curly hair may be pulled straight to measure the minimum 10 inches.
* 10 inches measured tip to tip is the minimum length needed for a hairpiece.
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Please Note:
# Shorter hair will be separated from the ponytails and sold to offset the manufacturing costs. Although the shorter hair cannot be used in the hairpieces, it still greatly helps to reduce costs.
# Gray hair will be accepted and sold to offset the manufacturing costs.
# Colored hair is not usable if it is colored over bleached hair.
# Because Locks of Love creates custom hairpieces for each child, we are unable to accept donations of wigs, falls, hair extensions or synthetic hair.
Just read your post on socialism.
I don't think socialism will work if the human heart remains selfish. (I don't think capitalism will work either, but that's another topic.)
Yes, it is a good thing if a factory is owned by the workers themselves. That way, the factory cannot be moved to another cheaper country all of a sudden, out from under the workers' feet.
But how many of us really have the unselfish attitude required to not hold a little bit extra for ourselves? Are we willing to be paid the same wage as everyone else? Are we willing to be paid a lower wage while others get more, while we wait and work for progress? Are we willing to do this quietly, without anger, bitterness, or protest?
I often dream of running a communal restaurant, where the poor could work and live and eat, and the public could come and buy cheap, healthy food. Pipe dream? I hope not. But I know I need to face the fact that within myself there is already a battle, just on the grounds of the dream, where I want to own the restaurant, and control it, and make sure it does not deviate from its founding principles. I don't want greed to take over and ruin my dream, yet I see that same greed already at work in me, desiring control and power to fend off greed in others.
Would I be willing to sell my home to help buy a restaurant to make this dream come true? And would I be willing to give up control to the rest of the workers?
These kinds of questions are so fundamental, and I think they need to be answered in our own hearts, before any call to "workers unite!" will be useful. I'm not yet sure I have all the answers, so calling for workers to unite seems premature. Once strife dies in every heart, *then* unity will begin to be possible. Until then, each of us has to cross over to the strife-less side one at a time.
What do you think?
- Chris
A colleague of mine (well, that was years ago) once told me, but you have to experience that at least once in your life, waking up in the morning and not knowing how you came home....
(It was carnival at that time and everyone was wondering why I didn´t drink alcohol but I don´t need alcohol to have fun ;-) )
Well, as much as I know my luck, I would not have come home but found myself lying somewhere on the pavement and that´s an experience I do NOT need.... ;-)
Just don´t agree with your "if there´s a god, life is a cruel joke".
Absolutely not. No joke. It´s a kind of exam and one should try to pass it so that you can come to heaven one day. And the best is, no matter whatever you did wrong in your life, there´s always a way to return to HIM....
even if people won´t forgive, HE does when the sinner changes his or her mind....
Got nothing to do with a joke!!!!
Love you always and forever.