SoCS: baldness

When I was a child, my dad was bald. I didn’t think anything of it. It was just Dad – or as his first grandchild named him, Paco, which is how he is known here at Top of JC’s Mind.

Tucked in a corner of the large mirror over the dresser in my parents’ room was a card that read, “God made just so many perfect heads. The rest He covered with hair.”

When I was in my thirties, a friend was being treated for breast cancer. We were speaking on the phone one day when she told me that so much of her hair had fallen out that her husband was going to shave the remaining strands off later in the day.

I told her about my dad’s card and she laughed about revealing her perfect or maybe not-so-perfect head.

Later that week, she posted a photo of herself, bald with temporary tattoos of butterflies scattered across her scalp.

There was also a saying, “Bald is beautiful.”

She certainly was.
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The prompt for Stream of Concsiousness Saturday this week is “bald, balled, bawled.” Join us! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2026/08/14/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-august-15-2026/