new beginnings
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Breaking From Tradition Can Be a Good Thing
Some families keep their history alive around picnic tables, their roots watered each summer by laughter, shared meals, and stories that stretch back generations. Mine did not. On my mother’s side, there were no great migrations back home for a weekend, no sea of matching shirts declaring our kinship, no annual roll call of who… Continue reading
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Short Locs and New Beginnings
I was twenty-two years old when I loc’d my hair. It is the only other time it has been this short (or a little shorter than this). As a spiritual-minded person, I do not think of hair as just hair. I see it also as energy. (I believe the keratin protein in hair contains crystalline… Continue reading
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Queasy
Change is a sickly feeling a nervous-like anxiety fear of the unknown beckoning for patience to wear itself thin stomach fluids swirl in the belly of futures unknown and yet I know the power of self-examination of mirrors and of light will require me to change or let go completely to strengthen and to… Continue reading
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