Welcome back!

*singing* “It’s Friday, its Friday, it’s the end of the week and the last day!” There’s more to the song and my Ryan Cameron fans can sing the rest for us LOL! Man, its good to see Friday again.  It’s been an amazing week, I have to admit.  If you look back through the archives this month you will see that I missed not one but two PYAF postings.  I simply hadn’t done anything for myself, nor did I have anything projected to do for myself.  This week however I’ve worked HARD and I’m playing HARD; hard enough to make up for the times this month that I didn’t do anything for myself
Last night I attended the first night of the women conference “Women at the Feet of Jesus” at my church First Metropolitan Church here in Houston.  As a woman who was not raised in the church and has had the pleasure of learning because I want to and not because I was forced to as a child, this is my first religious conference and it has already turned out to be so much more than I anticipated it would be.  I have to ask you all to please take a look into psalmist Dr. Karen D. Taylor and Rev. Dr. Jasmin Scurlark because these are women who will turn you upside down and then place you right side up with a fresh breath of air with the word they deliver.  I’ll be attending the conference again on Saturday to wrap up the final day of my ‘Work hard, play hard’ PYAF moment.
Tomorrow night I’ll be unable to attend the conference because of a prior engagement. There’s a concert of a few of my favorite artists: Mos Def, Ledisi, Bilal, and Stokely of Mint Condition that I’d already purchased tickets for.  I was so excited when I heard about this show that I bought the absolute best seats I could find because I am an avid music lover.  They say music soothes the savage beast.  Well after the monstrous schedule I’ve kept this week, I am in serious need of soothing.  Talk about right on time!
So this will put me back in the black on picking my afro for the month.  Are you current with your afro picking? Have you been putting off doing something for yourself? “Too busy”, “can’t afford it”, “but they need me” are phases that are not allowed.  Doing something uplifting for yourself doesn’t have to cost your entire paycheck; it doesn’t have to cost a dime.  Read your favorite book; spend some time outside enjoying the spring weather, pick up take yourself out for a cup of coffee, your favorite dessert.  The options are endless.  So…tell us how you’ve Picked Your Afro this week!