Adjustable Arko August!!
August 7
Razor - Soviet Consul (9)
Blade -
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(2)
Soap - Arko
Brush - Stirling 24mm Finest Badger
Post - Alum
August is moving right along! I had a bit of an early start today with a ride from just south and west of here to Barnes Jewish, Siteman Cancer Center. I had the great privilege to drive a remarkable lady named Edit. Nope, I didn't leave the "h" off of that. She's originally from Hungary, lived in the U.S. since 2001 and still has the most wonderful Eastern European accent. She has been undergoing chemo and radiation for a brain tumor for 12 years. She was hoping that she'd hear today that she was done. I hope she got the news she was looking for. The most amazing part was her entire story....the cause of her cancer. Well, sometimes you can't say for sure, but when you are 19 years old and a Garden Technician in your local town in Hungary and it happens to be 1986 and the Soviets have a little problem with a place a couple hundred miles away called Chernobyl.............yeah. It took until 2007 for it to show itself, even though she has stories of what happened to her other friends and members of her community. Heartbreaking. Terrifying. Yet, here is how she described her situation, more or less word for word. "I am not sick and have never been sick. I am healthy and happy. I just have cancer." How can you have a bad day after being told that? It also reminded me of another strong woman who said the following to her son when she found out she had cancer. "Don't worry about me. I'm not sick, and I'm not dying from cancer. I'm just living with it now." Thanks, Mom, for sending a reminder from Edit to keep things in perspective.
Anyway, back to Arko today and the Stirling badger to whip it up into its finest self. The Russian pairing is certainly not radioactive, but it is an amazingly smooth and effective two pass shave that allowed the baby to show up early with just a touch up or two. Great end to a day that started in such a unique and surprising way. Hope you had a great day too and here's to an even better Thursday!
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