Tina Turner hair

The salons are closed in my city, the stylists have all gone home. And my son jokes that I have Tina Turner hair.

He’s a beautiful boy and he does not know how much she means to me, how much he means to me. How could he?

There are missionaries whose positions were not taken because they were not enough.

But, I hear, they shouldn’t take it personally.

I sometimes wonder, how much it took to beat a woman, to leave a woman, to reduce a woman to nothing to be heralded as one above.

“You just keep going,” Tina said, “and you hope that something will come.”

Just.

Keep.

Going.

And know that you are already there.

And also know this:

You don’t have to wait for a thing.