No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Only twice in my life have I’ve tried growing what people call a beard. After nearly twenty years I never made a second attempt since the first patchy, uneven experience because the itchy oiliness didn’t agree with me. Nevertheless, I took the opportunity for a retry when recently the boy asked me to stop cutting my beard for a month. He obviously doesn’t realize why I started shaving my head in the first place.

This attempt was no different, and no less patchy! Not sure I’ll do it again — I realized I was right to start shaving it all off in the first place. But at least I learned about grooming facial hair. Yay.