When Logan Mella goes to school today, his friends won’t recognize him. He had his hair shaved off to donate to Locks of Love.
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair,” wrote Khalil Gibran. It’s a sentiment that Logan Mella knew well. The 10-year-old fourth-grader from Aptos had long, flowing blond hair—the kind of hair that Raymond Chandler once described as “blond to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.” But when Logan goes to school today, his friends won’t recognize him. He had his hair shaved off to donate to Locks of Love.
The hair almost didn’t make it. When he got to the Capitola hair salon, he was told that even after a year of growth, there wasn’t enough to make a ponytail. But that didn’t deter him—or his mother, for that matter. But Locks of Love has slightly different standards, so they were able to create four smaller ponytails and cut them off for the donation. And he was quite happy to leave the uneven patches that were left after the longest locks were cut. Perhaps he thinks that a hair in the head is worth two in the brush. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
