Music Therapy with Miss Moon

I love me some Willow Smith, y'all! I tell you, just looking at this beautiful child makes my biological clock tick with just the idea of having a child as DOPE!!! I think that this song is super-fun and it's a great way to start the week! Hope you will whip your hair with Willow and I!!!!

I'm REALLY Diggin': Mixed Chicks Shampoo, Leave-In and Deep Conditioner!!

As I'm sure many naturals (or many women!) have done, I've rushed out and purchased products only to be sadly disappointed, and stuck with large bottles of shampoo and conditioner that basically end up becoming VERY EXPENSIVE brush cleaner!

I purchased the Mixed Chicks Deep Conditioner last month and have been using it consistently since I blogged about it.



I've heard loads of rave reviews of the Mixed Chick product line from bloggers and YouTube naturals of every hair type (To this day, I have no idea what my hair type is! lol) and I've been curious to see if the products are worth the praise.... but I haven't been wanting to commit to the price for the full size bottles and jars. What's a cynical napstress to do?



In venturing the beauty supply store near my job, I was excited to see they sold sample sizes of Mixed Chicks products, so I snatched up four samples of the Shampoo and the Leave-In Conditioner (I already had a jar of the Deep Conditioner)on Friday, looking forward to washing and nourishing my hair before braiding my hair.

And what resulted is the BEST BRAID OUT I've had in ages!! After washing with the shampoo and
rinsing the deep conditioner (after I had it in my hair for about two hours) out my hair, I mixed the leave-in conditioner with Carol's Daughter Loc Butter. I kept the braids in until this evening and was bowled over when I let them down!



Of course my rule is to give it at least six weeks before I'm officially a fan, but so far, I am really really liking the results!!!

A Little [LES NUBIANS] for a Saturday Night

Admittedly, my "for a Saturday Night" song selections tend to be on the mellow side. Every once and while, I pick a song that dance-worthy and is befitting a night out on the town. But some of my favorite Saturday nights are spent chilling at home, and the music I pick reflects that.

This week's pick popped into my mind while taking a walk outside. Les Nubians have that amazing ability to provide that certain feeling of calm and tranquility, something I think everybody can use from time to time. I hope you all will enjoy "Les portes du souvenir" by Les Nubians and may the song fill your Saturday Night with peace.

DOPE: "She Said that She Would Prefer a Broken Neck.." by Amir Sulaiman

This poem for real... gave me chills!!!





Written by Amir Sulaiman

She said that she would prefer a broken neck to another broken heart.
I said "Remember, even the beauty of birth leaves its own scars
And know that you will find your home right where you are."

She said, "I know it sounds cliche, but I really am just waiting to exhale."
She's not looking for a perfect man, she ain't holding out for Denzel
She's just looking for a real man,
But she said "Most of the realest were in graves or in jail"
Just an upright brother, but she's left with low down brothers, homo thugs, and downlow brothers.

And it took her some time with herself to discover
That having love is even more important than having a lover
But what am I supposed to tell her?
That it's going to be okay? But it may not be.
It may be hard and ugly,
Difficult, complicated, rough and bloody
And I said, "So many women are struggling"

She said, "Yeah, I'd like a man to kiss me, I'd like a man to hug me
But he's gotta truly love love before he can truly love me"
I said, "I feel you." She said, "No, you're not feeling me.
We are women bringing up seeds,
Our own sons grow up thinking love is a disease
Ducking and dodging real relationships, and just gonna take what they please
And they treat pregnancy like it's an STD
If the test comes back positive, it's a negative
And they are ghost in the streets,
Drunk in the wind, only a moment is spent and those moments are brief
Our sons' role models are rolling stones unknown or deceased
They figure we can't teach them manhood, so they'll get grown in the streets
So in the cold world they find warmth with the men holding the heat."

I said "There's gotta be a change."
She said, "Yeah, it's gotta be more than poems on TV"
I said, "I feel you." She asked me how I survive.
I said, "By Allah, it was my mother otherwise
I would have been dead, crazy, institutionalized."

"She kept us in the good neighborhoods, even though she couldn't keep on the lights
So we could go to the best schools learning to read and to write.
Sometimes we'd be so broke, in the store, she'd have to pick between the beans and the rice.
Sometimes she'd put ketchup on a navy bean so it wouldn't seem like we're eating the same thing every night.
Two jobs during the day, and one at night.
And the stuff I saw her endure, I never wanna see my wife [endure]
So I know being a man is more than being male, and I'm focused on doing it right."

"But when I think about my childhood, I don't think about poverty
I remember how she hugged me, kissed me, taught me, loved me.
And I know you prefer a broken neck to another broken heart
Broken parts that litter the night sky like stars.
But remember, even the beauty of birth leaves its own scars
And know that you will find your home, right where you are
We will find our homes right where we are."