{"id":3232,"date":"2021-07-13T07:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2021-07-13T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:14:09","slug":"grooming-for-a-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/grooming-for-a-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Grooming for a road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Dave Williams<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My travelogue: July 9, 2021<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wichita Falls, Texas<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3233\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3233\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/grooming-for-a-road-trip\/20210709_175105\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G975U1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1625853065&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00085034013605442&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20210709_175105\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?fit=840%2C630&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-3233\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105.jpg?resize=240%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_175105-scaled.jpg?w=2520&amp;ssl=1 2520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Texas stays surprisingly green in the summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nice\u00a0 things happen when scooting cumulus clouds briefly block the sun of a North Texas summer day. The heat becomes bearable and the breeze gives voice to the poplar trees which rattle their leaves in harmony. The birds and even the cicadas quiet down to listen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m on another writing sabbatical. I just arrived. This is my warmup piece to loosen up the mind and cool down my inclination toward purple prose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before I left home today, I got a haircut and had a nice conversation with a thirty-something barber named Jade. Being naturally shy and a native Californian I don\u2019t easily begin conversations with strangers &#8211; I feel like I&#8217;m intruding in their quiet thoughts &#8211; but Jade is a pure Texan with no conversational hesitancy. I don\u2019t remember how she started but she quickly shared a synopsis of her life. She told me about her mother and her mother\u2019s divorce from her father who recently passed, I learned she is remarried and heard a bit about her husband and their kids: a 14-year-old stepdaughter who lives with them, and their 10 month old son. She adores them all, she told me. And there, she stopped. I guessed it was my turn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texans suck me in like that. I started talking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I told Jade I\u2019ll be turning 70 in about a month and that\u2019s a significant milestone. I explained that I, too, have been married twice and that CarolAnn and I each have sons and grandsons we\u2019ve shared from our previous lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I may be shy but men staring 70 in the face have no reluctance in sharing our hard won wisdom of age with just the slightest encouragement. Being a Texan she was polite and attentive, which was good enough for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I told Jade that I have had many lives: as a child, as a young adult, and through the long journey to creeping old age. I am a man pretty well in tune with life, I said. It was a prideful statement but I said it with quiet dignity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I explained that I work at staying current with events, social trends, and cultural changes, even the ones that baffle or annoy me. The trick is to go with the flow and don\u2019t worry about things that don\u2019t concern you. I only half jokingly told her I had spent decades trying to fix the world and change other people to my liking before I realized it\u2019s a fool\u2019s errand. I\u2019m fixing myself and that\u2019s all I can do, I declared. She seemed to like that and I took it as encouragement to continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I talked of lessons I\u2019ve learned through the trauma of love lost, single parenthood and a new, lasting love found.\u00a0 My CarolAnn and I just celebrated our 33rd anniversary and are still on our honeymoon, I said proudly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jade was entranced. Or, she\u2019s just a very good haircutter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/Local-barber.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3234\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/grooming-for-a-road-trip\/local-barber\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/Local-barber.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Local barber\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/Local-barber.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-3234 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/Local-barber.jpg?resize=147%2C147&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/Local-barber.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/wp-contentuploads\/2021\/07\/Local-barber.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 85vw, 147px\" \/><\/a>I told her that life will find its way to a happy conclusion if you\u2019re a good person and get out of the way to let it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Picking up the thread from a moment earlier Jade told me that her husband\u2019s ex is a nice lady and that the two women are discovering the things they have in common. Sharing kids is a big achievement, she boasted. I told her my CarolAnn and I just shared our anniversary with my ex and her husband. Jade laughed and was thrilled by at that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t we all be able to get along?\u201d she exclaimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I told her about CarolAnn\u2019s ex and how we\u2019ve shared in raising their son, and that we all embrace the wonderful realities of our tangled lives:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe were in love, once. We\u2019re in love again,\u201d I said. \u2018Why should we lose any of that?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a little like a barroom conversation except neither of us was drinking or bitching. We managed it all in about fifteen minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rising from the chair I said, \u201cJade, it was nice meeting you. You did a great job and I\u2019ll book you again.\u201d She smiled sweetly and told me she enjoyed our talk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I tipped her appropriately but not too much. It was a good haircut but the conversation was priceless.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dave Williams My travelogue: July 9, 2021 Wichita Falls, Texas Nice\u00a0 things happen when scooting cumulus clouds briefly block the sun of a North Texas summer day. The heat becomes bearable and the breeze gives voice to the poplar trees which rattle their leaves in harmony. 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