Next DFW Sisterlocks Gathering! Get-In-Where-Ya-Fit-In

Did you hear about the DFW Sisterlocks Gathering on Sunday, January 14 in Waco, Texas? Well read below for details and plan to join us!

If you have not RSVP'd please do so as soon as possible and no later than 12 noon, Monday, January 8. You can confirm with Maryee at sweetiepp03-bloggin@yahoo.com.

Mary & Jen are hosting this gathering at a venue solely for our use. So if you haven't gotten around to it, please give them the courtesy of an RSVP so that the caterers will have a solid head count. Thanks in advance - Blaq.

Click on title above for all the details and see below for my pics of previous fun gatherings!

Ladies, it's time for another DFW Sisterlocks Gathering! We're being hosted by Maryee and Jen of Waco, about a 45 minutes drive from the DF'Dub. It'll be a nice drive, several of us are caravaning and carpooling. If you'd like to join the caravan, hit me up off line for details.

Now you know what that means - food, fun, laughter, sisterhood - and you know it, lots-&-lots-&-lots of pics and blog updates! My new camera will be in before the event - so I'll be all up in peoples faces takin pics teheee! Can't wait!

It will be a fun event because we have a reserved spot SOLELY FOR US! Our numbers have outgrown the local restaurants. Here we can relax, mingle and get to know each other a little more intimately. There'll be poetry, singing and any other talent the ladies wanna share. I'mo definitely drop some lyrical rhymes of poetry...looking forward to it.

Locked, Sisterlocked, natural or not, if you haven't RSVP'd you betta get-in-where-ya-fit in and plan to join this group of awesome natural sisters!

Sisterlocks Reflections

Well, the first week of 2007 has come to an end. Work was busy, but rewarding.

I had a drink tonight with my best friend and I'm in a reflective mood. I stopped by Target, my favorite store, on the way home. In line ahead of me was a gentlmen with a happy, smiling, cute little girl about 18 months. I watched as the cashier carefully wrapped a dozen roses. As I surveyed this scene, I smiled and said to him, "you get big props tonight. You're grocery shopping, have the baby and bringing home roses!" He said, "it's been a hard week for everyone - it's the little things that count." I thought, now that's one lucky woman.

So as I drove home, I began to reflect on the "little things." I got a prime parking spot at the Super Target :-). I have a wonderful best friend who I can talk to, listens and isn't judgmental. I'm blessed with a great job, two awesome sons and I'm about to be a grandmother in May.

And through Sisterlocks, I've gained some wonderful friendships. Here's a photo of TRA, Creyole and me on December 21 at Brooklyn's Jazz Dinner Club in Dallas. We had dinner and drinks, listened to some great live jazz and had some good ole gurl conversation. Ain't nothing like sharing with like minded sistuhs!

Here I am a couple of nights later. I enjoyed Brooklyn's so much that I went back to hear more live jazz (Music is one of my passions). Creyole asked how I got this "look." Well during our dinner TRA demonstrated how she created her cute, curly look with bantu knots. My "look" here is a combination of a bantu knot set the night before gone wrong (and not half as cute as TRA's) and a Caruso Steam Curler set the following day resulting in this crinkly/curly look. I probably couldn't recreate it if you paid me to. But that's the beauty of Sisterlocks...they do their thing while allowing me to express mine, whatever that may be and sometimes totally by accident.

Here's how I looked for most of my 12-day winter break. No makeup and freestylin' the whole time, a first for me. I got lots of compliments and my oldest son, "really liked it that way." Which was a pleasant surprise. A nephew home from college said, "your locks look real neat, not messy like some of the people on campus." I even wore them freestyle to work on my first day back. My co-worker (who is African-American) asked, "how'd you get your hair straight?" Which I almost found amusing.

Just random reflections - thanks for reading....peace.

2007 Wishes

Happy New Year everyone! My prayer is that 2007 will bring many blessings to you and your loved ones. I pray that you find your goals, wishes and dreams in closer proximity and that you remain natural, locked and most of all happy!

You may have seen the following, but I gift it to you all as this new year begins...

Peace & Blessings,
BlaqKofi

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby or another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?

Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred D. Souza. He said, "for a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

This perspective has helped me to see that there is no easy way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment that you have. And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time...and remember that time waits for no one.

So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you've had a drink, until you've sobered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy...

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Work like you don't need the money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching.

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