So I’m at the park today, a beautiful little grotto full of old-growth weeping willows surrounding the playground, and there were some little kids — only about three feet away from me — whispering loudly and looking at me furtively, and I hear the word “beard”… So I say, “hey, are you talking about my beard?” to them, and the kid says, in apparent amazement, “you have a beard…”
Then he pauses, and a moment later says, “can I touch it?” — and I hear his mother giggling in the distance — as he begins reaching out his dirty from playing in the sandbox hands toward my face. “I guess so,” I say, “but your hands are really dirty so just for a second.” He wastes no time and completes the quest and touches it, and with a bizarre level of awe, tells me, “it’s so soft!”
And then he ran away and climbed a tree.
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ahaha, I can empathize. At the last place I worked, I was the only person with a beard, so my coworkers were always rubbing up on it. It can be awkward, but the attention is fun.
so adorable!!!
The Beard Maketh The Man.
No beard? Not a man.
*n
I grow my beard only to sport my grey, which I am probably ten years too young for.
In college a friend and I founded the Beard Liberation Front.
Tagline: Release The Beards Back Into The Wild!
We had a poster series with various bearded presidents and the caption “Isn’t it time for another bearded president?”
Hijinx ensued.
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My buddy Roby has a bet that he can’t not shave for the next year, you can follow him here. I don’t think he’ll make it …
Beards rule!
Your beard really has been growing, Shannon. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you with that long a beard. Then again, it has been quite a while since I saw you.
While I appreciate the time and devotion that is required to grow such a facial mane, I have to say that beards just aren’t my thing.
From my perspective keeping a hair-free chin requires far more effort and time.
A little trimming washing and shaping now and then beats a daily face-scrape hands down!
I love a man with a beard. Thankfully, Scott seems to be able to grow one in a hot minute!
There is far to much a push towards a beard (and facial hair in general) free land. I have had employers request I shave mine off, telling me I can only have a mustache and then telling me how to trim it as well. I have refused jobs, even in this past year, that have required me to shave, not that I’m hung up on it as much as I feel I am well groomed and presentable the way I am. We need to become more accepting and less military in appearance requests.
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