My New Dread Journey

So my new journey in life starts. I decided after some time thinking about it, talking about it, and asking my husband all his thoughts on it so I could mull it over some more, that I was finally going to do dreadlocks in my hair. Where did I begin? On my Droid phone, I googled "dread salon portland" and came up with the Dread Goddess (www.dreadgoddess.com). Then I started googling prices, methods, and my journey was getting a little time on it's path. But I started thinking about the cost of someone doing dreads in my hair, and the maintenance involved. I haven't had my hair cut in 2 years as it is. Before deciding on dreads, I was just about ready to chop it all off for a messy pixie cut. I've got five kids to keep me busy, my fiber arts to work on, and a million other things so haircuts always need to be something that doesn't need to be blow-dryed to suit my taste.

Next stop along my dread journey happened to be www.dreadlockssite.com. This was due to more googling, and ending up with a reply on a Yahoo Answers post. This is the site that made me realize I just needed to let go. The reason dreads had come into my life was because it was time for me to learn more about patience, more about letting go, and more about letting myself just BE. It's been 11 days since I first started my journey, and some days I've felt inspired with my hair, some days I've felt frustrated, and now nearing two weeks down the path, I'm feeling much more at peace with my dreads. What will be my dreads. What is now just my hair expressing itself as a small child finally set free. That what it feels like, just letting go and laughing a little for no reason except that you feel BLISS. It's going to be a very nice journey.

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Peace until next time.