Greetings Beautiful SistahGoddesses!!!

I am in my birthday month - yes I am making it a whole month celebration of my life. As I look back on all that happened in this past year - I am saying WOW! I made it through. This year I ended an abusive marriage, lost all I had (materially) in a wicked divorce (but thank Goddess I was out that mess) and then a friend gifted me with a trip to Tanzania (my first trip to Afrika). On that trip I connected with the most Ancient part of me - I climbed Mt.Meru (the spirit mountain), I baptized myself in the waters of Mami Wata and I came home different...I was no longer a victim of life but a strong warrior Goddess who came to do the work she needed to do...And I am doing it...

OK, I am burning up! I usually don't get this mad...I am the queen of finding the positive in every situation but this time I am just pissed off!! My Sistah Friend just told me that our "niece" the very sweet, straight A, honor roll student, who wants to become a doctor, who volunteers, was told by Six Flags of Georgia that she could NOT work there because she has locs! They told her that they consider locs a safety issue. They said that she could sign a "religious" waiver saying she was a Rasta and that her religion requires her to wear her hair loc'd and perhaps she would be hired????!! I am trippin' while I am writing this...I don't know why???

Greetings Sistahs,
For the last year I have been re-discovering my talents and re-affirming that I should do more with my graphic design skills. I am part of a women's small business development class and I have a homework assignment to conduct market research and figure out IF there is a market for me to do graphic design as a business. I have been doing things for friends and family for some time but it may be time to go professional...I need your opinion about AND I need to see if some of you Sistahs who have businesses, or are starting one would mind taking my online survey

http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2agqre0ffsp73dy/start.

I just want see if the answers would help me make some solid decisions. Thanks in advance for your help and advice. I won't contact you about anything unless you are interested in what I do. My portfolio is at www.sistahgoddess.com
Peace
Sistah C

Hey Sistahs,
I posted this on my other blog this morning and thought I would share part of it again here...Have a beautiful and powerful day!

Here are just a few words, thoughts that I wish to honor all of the Mamas in the world with...Every woman is or has been someone's mama. May we make offerings to all those walking Mama Shrines around us...may we lay flowers and pure water at their feet, fill their alms bowls with fresh fruit covered with honey and serve them sweet nectars... while we dance in the moonlight in honor of their life giving power and eternal sacrifice...
SistahGoddess
Artist, Mother and StarMedicineWoman
www.sistahgoddess.blogspot.com

I pass this on to you SistahGoddesses. Have a powerful and beautiful day...

AWAKENING

A time comes in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks, and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH!

Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears, and through a mantle of wet lashes you begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your awakening.

You realize that it's time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change or for happiness, safety and security to come galloping over the next horizon.

You come to terms with the fact that he is not Prince Charming and you are not Cinderella and that in the real world there aren't always fairy tale endings (or beginnings for that matter), and that any guarantee of "happily ever after" must begin with you; and in the process a sense of serenity is born of acceptance.