gal pal post vol 3 edition 1

Gal Pal Post
Volume 3 Edition 1
Emerging from the Ashes
Contents:
I. Quote of the Week
II. The Inner Diva-word factory
III. She Speaks

*Note from the Editor
Welcome to the Third Volume of the Gal Pal Post (email)
It has been under revision for 3 months and now you all can read again and enjoy. This year is all about keeping it simple. The Newsletter will have brevity to it and sometimes there will be some parts, resembling the past (like the jive talk) other times it will have this format.
As I grow and learn, my hopes are that you all do too, and need something at the next level. So without further hesitation, the gal pal email returns.

Quote of the Week:
“If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, some one will say it’s women’s work.”
-Anon.

The Inner Diva- Word Factory
‘tis the season to be jolly…As I think on this ChristmasHanukkahKwanzaa Season, I contemplate the essence of Charity and what it means to GIVE. Most women I believe are givers. I think that it is in our nature. (Hello Care-givers) And whether it is socialized to be there or not, it somehow finds itself at the core of our womanhood and our humanity. And there is nothing wrong with that. I have reconciled that part of my identity a long time ago. I open my home to people. I make dinners and serve them because I care. That gift is hospitality. I know many of you who read this do very similar things or come from homes that reflect this very notion.
I can think of every time that Mrs. Brown (Ali Brown’s mama) had opened her house to an onslaught of college kids and let us parade around her house and trample on her yards. She and her husband would grill food for us and made all of us, Jew or Gentile, a Brown, brown or white persons feel like we belonged there, that is a gift of hospitality. I can think of the times that I never got a package at school, and how that made me sad, but then Adina (Rollins) Sterling’s mama has sent me two packages since I have been in school and would send me treats in things she would send to Adina. That is too a gift of hospitality.
I now know these women to open their homes to any one. Ali lives in NYC and many of folk can testify to have taken in the comfort of the Brown love. Adina hosts many events at her place and even a bible study there from time to time that many women attend and feel loved there. My mama is one of the greatest cooks ever, and there is nothing like food that can bring people together. I say this to you all. There is nothing wrong with showing love through acts of service. It is the little things that make people feel loved and cared about. I could go on and on about the women I know who merit such notice, but I just wanted to demonstrate that we all have the capacity to care. Whether innate or learned, show the love. You never know when something good is gonna come back to you!!

She Speaks
In ringing in the new year, I pray nothing but blessings and goodness for 2005!!
The next gal pal will be in the New Year, but I want you all to dust your shoulders off and get rid of the baggage from this year.
So I give this space to Erykah Badu, from the album Mama’s Gun, Bag Lady
Bag lady you gone hurt your back
Dragging all them bags like that
I guess nobody ever told you
All you must hold on to
Is you, is you, is you
One day all them bags gone get in your way
One day all them bags gone get in your way
I said one day all them bags gone get in your way
One Day all them bags gone get in your way
So pack lightPack lightPack light
Ooh ooh Bag lady you gone miss your bus
You can't hurry up
Cause you got too much stuff
When they see you comin
Niggas take off runnin
From you it's true oh yes they do
One day he gone say you crowdin my space
One day he gone say you crowdin my space
I said one day he gone say you crowdin my space
One day he gone say you crowdin my space
So pack light
Pack light
Pack light
Ooh ooh Girl
I know sometimes it's hard
And we can't let go
Oh when someone hurts you oh so bad inside
You can't deny it you can't stop crying
So oh, oh, ohIf you start breathin
Then you won't believe it
You'll feel so much better(So much better baby)
Bag lady
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Ooh, oohGirl you don't need it
I betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
(Need someone to love you right)
Betcha love can make it better
(I betcha love, betcha love)
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
(I betcha love, betcha love)
Betcha love can make it better
(I betcha love, I betcha love, oh)
Betcha love can make it better
Betcha love can make it better
(Oh...)
Betcha love can make it better... Bag lady, hmm
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Girl you don't need that, hmm

I hope that you can interpret this the way you need to, to let go of things from the past and press on to what is coming for you at the horizon!!!