Everyone has been after me for this Tshirt and I wanted to give you a heads up on it. The Beautiful is online at http://www.sakile.com/whatsnew1.htm.

Love,
Karen
www.sakile.com

We prize cool, we prize beauty, we prize peace. We adorn, annoint, and beautify every day in our rituals of body care be they peace, beauty, or in a mad dash for the sake of time. Just remember, as we do what we do to beauty and peacify our bodes in our quests, lets be safe. Our body care, even the so called "natural" products can be dangerous. Check your packages, read your labels.

Some of the ingredients to steer clear of are: parabens of all kinds, DEA/TEA/EDTA/BHA/PEG, dimethicone, talc, mineral oil, propylene glycol, and FRAGRANCE oil. Fragrance oil is the most common skin irritant and in some studies it is linked to cancer. Fragrance oils are cheap, easily accessible, offer thousands of options; as for me and "my house", we're sticking with the script and offering only what the Creator has offered us.

My store was overflowing with beautiful energy today!!!! It was truly phenomenal and here's why. A typical day at the store is quiet. Only on Friday evening when we have what I call a SunSet do we have guests and passerby traffic at the store, but today we had sisters from ages 18 on up to early 60s and it was simply divine what the women had to say. Some of them came to the store at 10am and stayed until 5pm talking and vibing. It was unbelievable.

We talked about everything from getting rid of that ugly underwear, adorning ourselves with natural, beautiful things, and whispering to our children instead of hollering at them. I wish I could put today into words, but it was just a vibe that just happened. One sister stopped in and told us all how she was burned over 65% of her body and left for dead, but she was standing there in my store, radiant, glowing, and awesome. Today was just one of those spectacular days.

Warm hugs and blessings on this rainy day in downtown Orlando. I didn't know where to put this blog, but I know it will be well received wherever it ends up. Sisters, Happy Black Love Day!!!!!!!

I was driving my boys to school and thinking about the meditation I did with them this morning. The African proverb for today was about "kindness." I thought about how I was anything but kind to my warriors this morning; trying to get their shoes on, tshirts on, breakfast ready, lunch ready, baby ready, EVERYTHING! Then I got angry at my husband because he takes his time in the mornings, does his "primping" rituals, looks well put together and well rested. I thought "how come he gets to go out of here looking so fresh and so clean, while I'm looking like a throwback from Dexie's Midnight Runners (anybody remember that group from the 80's)?"