Natural Journeys: My Sisterlocks and stuff

It's a process...Unlock to lock From societal norms that bind My thoughts, my actions, my mind From expectations of whom I should be Unofficial authors of my reality I Must be UNLOCKED! From false images projections beauty Apart from me That stifles and chains my innate creativity From rules that say my hair must be straight Or in a mainstream's line I will wait I Must be UNLOCKED! To seek truth and my life's meaning Paying homage to REAL SELF and TRUE BEING Finding connectedness to the mother Gifts assigned to me as to no other I SHALL BE UNLOCKED! To take control of my life and my hair And play rules my spirit calls fair To let go days of perms, curls and press To experience freedom in speech, styles and dress I AM MOST TRULY LOCKED! By Cynthia Raiford

Loc envy… we all have it from time to time. It is human nature. Those interested in getting locs-- Sisterlocks not withstanding-- and even we who already have locs / Sisterlocks love to see photo galleries of loc’d sistahs (and bruthas). We look to pick up a new “do” or peer into the virtual crystal ball to try to imagine how our locs / Sisterlocks will look at some later stage and future state on our personal locking / Sisterlocks journey. Let me underscore this again… we each are on a personal locking/ Sisterlocks journey. Deciding to loc your hair is a journey of patience to be sure as well as growth. I’m not talkin’ just length of hair growth, but spiritual, mental, social as well as the physical hair growth. The greatest of these being spiritual growth (can I get deep here…) because patience is a spiritual force that is activated when our faith in something comes under attack or under pressure. I have come to learn that patience is a by-product of unpredictable changes. Patience i...