[Magdalen] worst haircut ever

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Delightful how you find a diamond in all that!

On Oct 10, 2017 7:36 PM, "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> But it’ll grow back,
> and I got to spend half an hour with a pierced tattooed eighteen-year-old.
>
> She confided (the confidences of an eighteen-year-old!)
> that she’s an artist
> (and my prayer is that she paints better than she cuts).
> But she’s blocked.
>
> I told her writers get blocked, too.
>
> “Are you competitive at all?” I asked
> (LOL she radiated competitiveness).
> “Go paint with other people,” I suggested.
> “You’ll look at their work and think ‘I can do better than that,’
> and the block will disappear.”
>
> Hope this works.
> Hope she’s moved on in three weeks.
> -M
>