Author: Sage Tyrtle

Rupert the cat was riding around on my shoulders purring like mad this morning at Small Wonders Pets on the Danforth (See? SHOP LOCAL) when a woman said, “Hey! I’m following your partner’s adventures in India.” My partner Todd Tyrtle is spending the month of December cycling across India. Today, he’s in a town where no foreigner has ever visited before.

I love what a tiny village Toronto really is. The photo below was taken in a tiny village in India, where this lovely family has all but adopted Todd Tyrtle. Click here to read all about it.

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TONIGHT I’m telling a story I almost never tell at Replay Storytelling as part of their All In The Family Show. See you there? Stories from the people who made us and the people we’ve chosen.

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1184 Bloor Street West (just west of Dufferin)
Toronto, ON

I’m on the subway and a four year old girl sitting next to her dad calls over to me. “Hi, why do you have short hair?”

“I like it,” I say. “I cut it this way because I like it.”

“YOU cut it?” she says, her eyes wide.

“Yup, all the time. Do you have long hair, or short hair?”

She takes her hat off. Her hair is very short.

“I love it!” I say. “We are hair twins!”

“My grandma had to cut it all off,” she says, “Because of bugs.”

“Well, *I* think it looks wonderful,” I say.

She suddenly smiles, her face transformed, and then the subway pulls into her stop and she hollers, “Goodbye!” as she and her dad go out the door.

And all the way home I think about drops of water. Wearing away at a stone. That little girl, embarrassed by her short hair, wearing her hat and then realizing – it’s beautiful. It’s goddamn beautiful.