Peace..

Ok, when I started my lock, it was around the time of the horrific MOVE event here in Philly, Pa.. in fact at the time of this blog it is the anniversary of that inhumane bombing and assination of MOST of the MOVE family including John Afrika and I think 7 or 9 children and several adults I believe 11 people in total..I begining to realize that my mind has a tendancy to blurr horrific events..not deny them just blurr some facts because of the pain and I have lived long enough to have my share of pain be it personal or other wise..

Well with that being said.. I locked my hair not totally out of protest for what happen to those hue-mans but, I was at a serious place in my life of enlightenment and when I saw the MOVE family up close and one on one I was in awe of this ancient style and the thought that my own hair would grow and grow and grow with out chemicals or wigs or weaves.. I KNEW I had arrived..

Well at first I did had concerns about my employment and what in the world would I do if I had locks and I also got flack from friends and family because I had embraced being God forbid..NAPPY!! Yet I locked nonetheless..now 16years (maybe longer) I have over 3 feet of hair ok, most of my locks are and now I desire my wispy lock that look like vines to mat up to thick tresses much like tree roots BUT for some reason they won't!! No matter what I do (or don't do) they remain long yet thinner than I want them to be..

Just wondering out loud ..does anyone have any suggestions to thicken my root mass so I can have those nice thick natty roots locks.. and be damned what society thinks!!

Holla back at a sista!!

One Love

Momma 'Diya

Peace..

Ok, when I started my lock, it was around the time of the horrific MOVE event here in Philly, Pa.. in fact at the time of this blog it is the anniversary of that inhumane bombing and assination of MOST of the MOVE family including John Afrika and I think 7 or 9 children and several adults I believe 11 people in total..I begining to realize that my mind has a tendancy to blurr horrific events..not deny them just blurr some facts because of the pain and I have lived long enough to have my share of pain be it personal or other wise..

Well with that being said.. I locked my hair not totally out of protest for what happen to those hue-mans but, I was at a serious place in my life of enlightenment and when I saw the MOVE family up close and one on one I was in awe of this ancient style and the thought that my own hair would grow and grow and grow with out chemicals or wigs or weaves.. I KNEW I had arrived..

Well at first I did had concerns about my employment and what in the world would I do if I had locks and I also got flack from friends and family because I had embraced being God forbid..NAPPY!! Yet I locked nonetheless..now 16years (maybe longer) I have over 3 feet of hair ok, most of my locks are and now I desire my wispy lock that look like vines to mat up to thick tresses much like tree roots BUT for some reason they won't!! No matter what I do (or don't do) they remain long yet thinner than I want them to be..

Just wondering out loud ..does anyone have any suggestions to thicken my root mass so I can have those nice thick natty roots locks.. and be damned what society thinks!!

Holla back at a sista!!

One Love

Momma 'Diya

Hey Beloved..

I work with children from the ages of 3 to 6 everyday.. and coming from the prospective of being an activist doing prisoners' rights and fighting the "system" of injustice etc.. working with children though can be a little draining sometimes yetone of the most beautiful and the most rewarding in my life thus far..

Children are the future is such a quaint sentement isn't... but we live in a society that has to debate over funding for schools, will put children in harms ways with insensitive programming and advertisement and has the LARGEST population of incarcerated youth in the developing world NOT to mention will lock a minor up for adult crimes and throw away the key.. something is really screwed up in our society. We have adults that will victimize children..turn them into sexual beings because they are cute and innocent we have a lot of sick puppies out there and these individuals have turn our society in to a paranoid mess..trust is a matter of few options..

And in our well meaning attends to be "good parents" we sometimes forget that disipline is a form of Love..and we are afraid to correct our children and spoil them rotten with giving them everything money can buy because in our ever growing society.. time is a resource fewer and fewer families have to share so the television or Xbox or iPod or anything to keep our children entertain becomes the companion..wow..many parents don't have a clue about setting boundaries let alone guiding children on just common decency let alone manners..

WTF... is going on with we us.. just because the previous generation wasn't your cup of tea that doesn't mean you throw out everything even the positive points that all generation tries to deliever.. yes even your grandparent had some good points to offer (hopefully)..So now what?

Childhood is such a very brief time in a hue-man's live..before long this little being will have its own thoughts, and ideas and rational..( it tickles me when a youth corrects the way I speak because I have an accent of sorts), or explains to me their logic of what is real especially to them..guess what that is cool because they have to get plugged in sometimes quicker than most parents want..sometimes they have to hit the ground running which is so sad..but what is sadder still is that we too often look at children as things or possessions when in actuality children are ALL of our responsibilites..not just the ones you bear or the ones you take care of.. a child is so precious All of us should stand in solidary to protect them, love them , guide them and nuture their imagination and growth..

Did you know in nature, a momma cat is only a good mother "if" her mother was good to her..and men folks..come on many need to get with the real and stand with your children or do your damnest to prevent making them and still you are the male energy that many sons calls hero and your daughters will pattern their future partner with your attributes.. what are you saying?

There is still time to get on the good foot and do what is right, do what is loving for our children all of our children.. just remember if you live to be old and grey..this is the future that will be taking your place and hopefully with love and compassion and a true sense of the value of life. So what have you done for a child today.. remember tomorrow they are the world..

One Love

Blessed..

it is daily we hear about pain and suffering of our fellow brothers and sistren on this planet we call home Earth.

Some blessed soul (oh yes my sister) sent this to me.. Keep the people in Japan, Haiti, Dafur and anywhere beit up the street, or in your own family or friends ANYWHERE healing and love is among the strife and saddness keep this prayer or meditation close to your heart and let it become part of your daily consciousness..isn't amazing after the worst the sun still shines.. hold on to your faith, spread love and be of good service to others.. we ALL can get through this if it be the design of the Most High..

Alice Spiller Wrote: No weapon formed against me or my family shall prosper.........This prayer is so powerful. The devil is a liar. You may be going through a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith. The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginning, but not its end. This message works on the day you receive it. Let us see if it is true. Pass this on to your friends. Something good will happen to you; something that you have been waiting to hear. Don't ask questions just forward to all people and trust God!

It like this..

I don't need the raising vapors of cannabis to singe my brain cells and caramelizing lungs with moist dank carbon to know for sure, to take in an account of what is the true value of life and not to take for granite every cosmic decimals of life.. like inspite of some hard times, some very hard time like some unrighteous shit that was not of my doing but karma

debt I had to paid on that level..yet I survived and in fact rose up before my enemies like the table shall be set before my

my enemies like the Most High done picked me up and intervened like some divine interception. If you are sensitive enough and humble just enough to know you just might not know everything so it stands to chance that the universe just might show, just maybe teach you somethings like opening some divine insight to life and you just might have the ability to see the multidimensional of levels of vibrations of the planes of existence it is a humbling inspiring spiritual experience and unique to each person on the journey yet with some similar character traits like a certain awareness that you know a key has opened that door or just that knowing that something life transformation has taken place.

It like the knowing that what ever happen before from this point you know that your can't go back to that way of thinking whether its up or down you know things will never be the same.. you been touched by an angel..the holy rays has anointed you and your psychic has taken a cosmic jolt...whether it in the head or the heart or it rattle your bones to your soul you know that its real its a confirmation from the Most High a blessings like you know that inspite of whatever its going be all right and life is worth living because whether there is an after life or karmatic determined outcome whatever the thingy one sure thing is here and now this moment you can do this and read this rant..and whatever you did before, after and during and many moments to come while you have them..to be grateful.. by and by it will be all right what ever is the will of the Most High what will be will be..in spite of your best or half assed efforts there is only so much control you have and whether you call it fate or God or Allah, Jah, Bhudda , regardless of the plans there is just the precious moments of life and that is everyone one on the planet that has that very real inescapable real-eyes truth of our morality..batteries not included hard core facts..our time here is limited and except for very few exceptions we not know when or where just that it will be..so living is so precious..

Everyday in my life I have to come to terms with what is real..what I have "real-eyes" to the truth of what is really important without losing my humanity or sanity. There are so many illusions of what is real..and what has been created for the masses to get so caught up in that before you know it you have lost so much. Like being employed, money, wealth, equity. And what I have come to discover time and time again is that depending on variables that could be out of one's control, that we live in a society that focuses on you are what you are worth and not who you are but, even within that there are contradictions. So many contradictions..like you will heard abortion is murder yet, our society struggles with quality education in innercity schools, or will judicate a child as an adult and sentence him or her to a life sentence..of course there is the contradiction of race which is always an issue even through we live in times that just because there is person of color in the white house, there are to many factions that are screaming hate and death more than ever in this illusion of solidarity. We are bombarded with fear..always. Be afraid of those who don't look like you,who don't believe like you, that "us against them mindset".Crime is going down yet, on the nightly news crime is the main focus..we have more cop/sci/law and order/cold case shows than ever and images of people of color getting busted on prime time tv than ever..do you feel safe yet? We have more people losing their homes to scams of home ownership in the guise of a better life, the American Dream. We have white farms who get paid to not grow food yet in the same scene there are black farms who can't grow food and the gov't don't plan to assist them. It not just farms but their land that they are losing and yet there is growing hungar in the world.We buy bottled water and yet we are blessed to be able to go to the sink turn on the spicket to drinking water that many people could only dream about..we have plenty and we waste so much and yet we have a poverty rate and situations in the richest country in the world that would compare to any third world.. yeah right here in the states.Well..what are we going to do? When the wisdom of the elders are auctioned off for the mere illusion of youth..to be thinner, younger, beautiful forever! Well..we who dare call ourselves "in-lighten" we who run off to Rainbow gatherings and chanting ancient incantations and vibin' on psychedelic trances and hemp smoke we who claim to be so centered and so grounded that we have discovered how to reach zen or can download karma for dummies on our laptops or iPhone, we are going to be held accountable. Because the main lesson we totally forgot to practice without question, with every being of every cell in our bodies in every impulse of energy is LOVE..Love can heal but sometimes the healing is a painfully process because Love makes one examine self if applied properly..Love is not blind for it see beauty and the harshness of truth in its attempt to restore wholeness and balance. Love is vigilant it searches for solution because life is worth the time to problem solve. Love is empathic. It can feel the pain or joy of another because its the core of the connection of life. Love is the warrior who fights for the underdog in the sheer sense of justice and "just us". Love appreciates. Love respects. Love nourishes and nutures. Love reaches from the roots of the past to flourish the branches of the present to bare fruit of the future..Love cares it just does.Well... now what, well my friend that is up to you..