Blessings SiStars,

I am happy to announce that Becoming Peers by DeAnna L'am whom I interviewed on Wisdom Talks is now available through my website http://wombshaman.com. You will find it in the Book Store Section...of course. :-)

Here is a little something about the book...

An inspirational guide for mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers,
aunts, cousins, or any woman
wishing to nurture a girl through her coming of age
(while empowering herself!)

This book provides practical guidelines for mentoring a girl into womanhood. It offers creative ceremonies and activities designed to honor a girl’s transition and call her to new levels of maturity.

At the same time, it presents the adult woman/mentor with powerful tools for enhancing her inner and outer life.

The book is motivated by the belief that for a girl to enter womanhood in a meaningful way, it is essential that her mother
and other special women in her life cultivate a new way of relating that will gradually help her to become their peer.

Today, the biggest thing on my agenda was to get the laundry done so as to get ready for the week ahead. These days this task requires a few more steps being that self and son have taken temp refuge at the apartment of a friend (another post, another time, perhaps) Preceeding the manual labor of sorting the clothes, hauling the big bundle up the hill to the wash facility, wiping down the inside of the washer with vinegar and/or bleach (yeah, I've been told I've got a touch of OCD-- but on the real, everybody's gotta admit that public washers are kinda gross...) comes the ever important step of hunting down a roll of quarters to feed into the hungry machines-- not always as simple as it sounds. I began my search for the coveted quarters at the health food store 'round the corner since I needed to go there anyway for some tea tree soap and elderberry tea to quiet the coughs that son and self, ironically, picked up from his doc's office. Anyhow, tea and soap in hand and lingering as I tend to do, Lakshmi/Oxum/universal spirit of Beauty led my eyes to a LOVELY book that I can't wait to add to my library.

In the spirit of my last blog, I decided to add some notes from another book by Sanaya Roman called Personal Power Through Awareness: A Guidebook For Sensitive People. This book was channeled by Sanaya's spirit guide Orin.

Notes from Personal Power Through Awareness

 One of my fav articles.

1. When a ship sinks, women(and children) get off first.

2. A woman can hug her best friend without worrying she'll think she's gay.

3. Woman can talk to an attractive member of the opposite sex without having to picture them naked.

4. A women can never be blamed if it's wet on the floor around the toilet bowl.

5. If a woman cheats on her spouse everyone will assume it's because she was being emotionally neglected(Not really true in case of India. Here, if any woman "disobeys" her husband or worse, cheats on him, then she's a slut. The husband can have extra-marital affairs without any problems).

6. Woman are capable of doing atleast two different things to a passable standard at the same time(Oh yeah, like I chat with an a*s*o*e and blog about feminism simultaneously).

7. Women live longer than men.

8. Women know how to cover-up spots and other facial blemishes.

9. If a woman inexplicably disappears for two weeks, one of her friends will notice.

One of my favorite books is called Creating Money: Keys To Abundance by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer. I wanted to share a few snippets from the book that I found helpful.
Notes from Creating Money
• Abundance means more than having quantities of things; it means having things that fulfill you as well.
• If anything is truly serving your higher good, it won’t be taken away.
• Manifestation is a process of bringing your ideas, concepts, visions and dreams from your inner world into your outer world where you can experience them with your physical senses.
• Your soul stops lower and negative thoughts from becoming a reality unless having them manifest will teach you something that will help you grow.
• Some of your negative thought may come from being around people whose fears and doubts amplify your own.
• You create your prosperity no matter what the economy is like. Your challenge is to keep your thoughts about your economic future positive and not be affected by what large groups of people are thinking or saying.

I have heard a lot about the book, The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo and how such a best seller it was. Then one day as I was visiting the library, I thought of borrowing this book and to know. I was quite surprised that the book was so thin. Perhaps, I must increase my reading habits to know more books. But I thought that since this was such a best seller, the guy at the library is gonna charge me a lot. But he just charged 18 bucks!

 This wasn't a novel. It was a magickal story of achieving what you have dreamed. Myself being such a dreamer, I was totally inspired from this book. Moreover, however thin the book looked, it seemed to be thick when I read it.

I've always admired black power groups. I loved the riots, the fights, the passion, the rallies, and the anticipation of improvement they offered to a shaken nation. I used to dream of bombing courthouses and instilling fear into pigs dressed in police uniforms. I thought if I were alive at that time I would be the one to negotiate the peace or start a new black race of intellectuals and reasonable people. I admired Assata, Elaine Brown, Angela Davis, and Kathleen Cleaver; and we all know that with admiration comes envy and I envied them. I wanted to be them. They were heroic markers in time for putting their lives on a line the oppressors tried time and time again to blur. They were fighting racial oppression. But it never occurred to me that they were fighting gender oppression as well. They were some of the lucky who were able to live out their women in those times.

Thank you to all the wonderful ladies and gents that have supported this book.  I have just recently picked a new cause to donate to, so please stop by the page (click on image) to view some history on Haiti.

Here is where some of your money went. What Lulu paid me in March for February.

What was don޲ated?

Greetings Goddesses!
I want to Give Thanks to the sistas here who have been giving my book "The Art of Being a Goddess", rave reviews! I am really happy to know that you have been able to enjoy and encompass some of the ideas, practices and spirit of the book.
For those of you who are new, or just recently heard of the book, I am posting some excerpts and reviews from ymib Goddesses.

www.yeslioness.ecrater.com


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"As A Woman Thinketh, So is She"

So I just started reading this book, Winning The Race, by John McWhorter. The whole premise from what I can see is that black people are in the state they are in today because we have engaged in therapeutic alienation.

I've only just started so this not a review just my thoughts. It seems so far that therapeutic alienation is a few things:

- talking a whole lot of good game about change but not necessarily doing any work
- embracing being the outsider culture
- reveling in the idea of revolution

I'm trying to keep an open mind while reading this. I'm intrigued but also a little put off by this dude. We'll see.

One thing he said that I agree with is that we seem to think there is a need for a second Civil Rights movement to bring about change, to make The Man see the fault of his ways. He seems to say The Man has always been here and he ain't going nowhere so we have to work this out ourselves. I tend to agree here.

Today I was a harsh day. My English paper was due, Nutrition exam over 3 chapters, and I was running late. I didn't write the paper; I skipped it to study for an exam. Through all that stress I found a way to see some sunshine. The cold Tennessee wind kick my butt like always, but seeing my friends after a test brought me some light. I spent hours laughing and talking, talking and laughing. College guys always find a way to bring some sunshine. Its funny how when you start college all of your friends drop all the crazy high school crap and move on with life. We die from crazy professors, share pain and sorrow. It crazy how academic stress brings complete strangers closer.
Oh that English class I skipped to study, my teacher saw me talking to my friend who works in the bookstore..talk about the look of death!! Then she saw me in the cafeteria talking to my other friends.. that was so scary!! I mean I wanted to hide scary!
Well on the way home I past Borders and thought it would do my soul some good.

Greetings fam!

I wanted to share a website that I came across through another forum ...
http://www.shelfari.com

It's a wonderful website for those who love to read and connect with others... read reviews of books, see what other's are reading and explore new leads on books to add to your wish list! ...It's like a virtual book shelf network!

Please feel free to add me: http://www.shelfari.com/holisticlocs
And check out this group: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10111/about

I look forward to reading your book reviews and seeing what's on your shelf!

(This might take m while to put up lol)

Happy Reading! ;o)

Week One: pg. 1 – 20: Khamitic Nubian Philosophy: Write down your goals and expectations of all of the things that you would like to learn and gain from Sacred Woman and try to keep it in the back of your book or journal.

When I tell ya that I had my dictionary handy, trust that I used it well.

Things I learned: Hotep (Peaceful)

Hetepu (Peace and Blessings)

I like how Q. A. explain what she shares; love the explanations, it helps! I'm not sure in how to pronounce Hetepu or some of the other ancient terms/spiritual energies but I do know how to say, "Peace and Blessings."