Thread: Morning Contemplation

Today I woke up checked my watch, it was 8:00AM I should have been walking out the door 15 minutes before. I hadn't shaved the day before because I wanted to do a 2 day shave. Well I performed the "3 S" routine by 8:30. That included 2 passes with my str8 both with and against the grain. Not even the smallest nick and a really great shave. There was no time to think or contemplate my navel..

Originally Posted by RichZ

There was no time to think or contemplate my navel..

This is why I normally shave in the evening... so that I *can* think and contemplate my navel

-- Gary F.

Thank-you, Gary. I have been so focussed on the difficulties with my hone and how to correct them these past few weeks that I have lost track of some of what you have written about. Thank-you for reminding me about some of what is really important here. Thank-you for your clear expression and detailed process. Thank-you for your careful thought. It is an inspiration to me in my time of hectic living. I know that in my next shave I will be thinking a little of you.

X

Gary,

A wonderful and thought provoking post. Thanks.

Ed

wow Gary..that really made me sit back and think. I too think like that but you put it in to words perfectly.

I guess the ritual of straight shaving brings out the best in all of us. That's also why there are such nice people on SRP, well all have many things in common and share a passion which is not that common.

So now I'm thinking of you when you went to the shops to get a Proraso package for me, Lynn for his honing skills, Vlad for his restoration projects, Bill for his awesome stuff and what he has gone through moving house, and Tony for his strops etc..

Then I think of Joe Chandler, your beer and it goes on and on.

Thanks Gary, inspiring thougth. My shave tomorrow will be longer and more enjoyable because if your comments.

Now enough of this drizzly sentimentality stuff, get back to work all of you..

Gary

Easy .... Eeeaaasy..... eeeeeaaaaasyy...... eeeeeaaaaasyyyy ...d'uh!

The "d'uh" part for me is the point in time when everything has been going very well with the shave, and then you - albeit gently and unintentionally - set the sharp edge of the razor directly down on either (a) your chin or (b) right below one of your side burns (usually the right one for me). There's no blood - yet - but, you KNOW that you just cut yourself and you know its going to bleed - alot.

:P

Gary,

I reread your original piece again and it made me think that life here in NYC is way to stress filled and hectic. I truely do not have time for all those thoughts. Thanks for the reminder to slow down and smell the flowers, so to speak.

Originally Posted by Dogma72

There's no blood - yet - but, you KNOW that you just cut yourself and you know its going to bleed - alot.

I hate those moments... that brief moment of time between when you realized you just cut yourself and the blood starts and you're just standing there waiting for it. We need a word for that time. I bet the Japanese have a word for it already, they seem to have a word for everything

-- Gary F.

Originally Posted by RichZ

Gary,

I reread your original piece again and it made me think that life here in NYC is way to stress filled and hectic. I truely do not have time for all those thoughts. Thanks for the reminder to slow down and smell the flowers, so to speak.

Lets trade places for a week I could use the excitment
and you could use the slow down. I suppose the change
would be culture shock for both of us.


Terry

Originally Posted by gfoster

... that brief moment of time between when you realized you just cut yourself and the blood starts and you're just standing there waiting for it. We need a word for that time.

We have one ... "oops"

X