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As you may or may not know, today marks the very first day of my favorite Holiday: Kwanzaa. It's an African Holiday I celebrate every year without fail. Every day of Kwanzaa is marked by a virtue of the Nguzo Saba, or, "The Seven Principles".
Today, we celebrate Umoja, which means "Unity". Band together with your loved ones, strangers, or even perhaps, if you are by yourself, the unity within you, and appreciate doing thing as a whole, setting aside petty differences, and accepting everyone in unity.
Since I won't be around to post each of the seven principles, I'll go ahead and list them for you here for the rest of the week:
Tomorrow we celebrate: Kujichagulia--Self Determination. (To define ourself, name ourselves, speak for ourselves, and create ourselves.)
Afterwards on, are:
Ujima--Collective Work and Responsibility (To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our own, and to solve them together.)
Ujamaa--Cooperative Economics. To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and businesses, and to profit from them together.
Nia---Purpose. To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community to restore our people to their original greatness.
Kuumba (My favorite!)--Creativity. To always do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited.
Imani (Another favorite) FAITH. To believe with all of our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, and our leaders, and the righteousness of our struggles.
I truly do love this holiday. And speaking of Holidays, I AM TOO DAMN HAPPY Christmas is over and done with. God, what a horrible Christmas it was this year. In between the absolute, FULL-BLOWN depression I was experiencing at being away from my family (and being by myself this year), and and my stupid two roommates (no good, no account, lousy drama-starters), and a NOT so appetizing meal...I am seriously glad to say good riddance to this Christmas. I KNOW next year will be better, though, an I'm seriously looking forward to it! But I DID get some nice goodies:
Baked a new recepie, which I named my: "Jean Claude Van Damme (I'm Good!)!" cake because it's seriously a kickass cake.
And lastly, my cousin sent me the greatest gift of all:
My family!!! My sister who's in the Marines, my beloved mum, and my big Papa Bear!
I hated that I couldn't be there this year, but I went back to school today, so I wouldn't have been able to anyway. 
Oh well. Can't wait to see everyone this coming year!Have a great week, everyone! <3
DEC 26, 2012 05:58 PM
Well Happy Kwanzaa!
You have a great looking family. Hope you have a great holiday! 
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DEC 26, 2012 07:58 PM
Happy Kwanzaa!
DEC 26, 2012 09:45 PM
DEC 27, 2012 12:59 AM
finally i¡m at home again ^^ hehehehehe and is good to say hello yo old friends ^^ hope everything were ok and hope your lifetime were awesome! <3 as i can read, this december is going really well with your familly. Thanx, btw, for write about anything but xmas... i fucking hate xmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but it was pretty interesting to read about your holidays in Africa. Could you pliz tell me what ethnya or people in Africa practice this faith? I'm going to search more info!!!!!!!!!! hehehehe
DEC 27, 2012 04:09 AM
They all sound good and I try to do something akin to "Kujichagulia" as often as possible. The more I become myself the more useful I am to myself and my true friends. Life is more "real" like that.
I'm sorry to hear you've had a rough time of it during the holidays this year. We love ya' though!
DEC 27, 2012 09:47 AM
DEC 27, 2012 05:09 PM
thnks gorgeous .. i hope so
DEC 27, 2012 09:13 PM
Happy Kwanzaa.
DEC 28, 2012 11:21 AM
I had to skip through your blog because I noticed there's food in it and I'm starving
Will come back and read through it after supper.
What I WANTED to say is that, after watching your new video blog, I just realised I've spent my WHOLE life pronouncing your name wrong.
Damn this South African accent
DEC 28, 2012 11:58 AM
With no memories to remember from Xmas and a good week of African Principles holidays (appreciate that) under way you're on a good path into a strong 2013. I send you best wishes and 
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DEC 28, 2012 12:52 PM
I'm sorry you were away from your family on X-mas But your family is beautiful! I hope next years holidays are way better! Christmas is over rated anyways 
Kwanzaa on the other hand is so much better...thank you for posting about it!
Happy 2013 sexy lady!
DEC 28, 2012 05:00 PM
Woot! Thanks I just want to wait for it to be longer so it doesn't shorten too much since I've been trying to grow it out.
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