Self-defined. Flagrantly sports spirally naps. ...All the better to receive messages from the Ancestors. Dig?
Laid-back, open-minded and open to new experiences (within my moral boundaries), like to meet different people of different cultures. I am big time into mysticism, anything artsy...I like to create things. I love mountains and trees. I believe in faeries. Love chocolate milkshakes but coffee ice cream is my favorite. Ridiculously eclectic taste in music - there's no telling who I might be listening to at any given time. I love movies but I don't watch television. I read a LOT. I am returning to college after several years off to be a stay-at-home Mom. I'm married. I have a business retailing African Imports and I create Gift Bundles for children. I have also been designing jewelry for 15 years and have developed my own style but although it reflects both my African and Native American heritage - I would dearly love to spend a few months learning from traditional jewelry artists all over Africa. I draw. I'm a poet. ...And a storyteller.
I love being Black and I love Black people. I am all about getting with other Sun Children for the purpose of building strong new foundations for a powerful New Nation of Melinated Greatness (mmm...that sounds good!) a nation that is as strewn about as the Afrikan Diaspora and as far-flung as the stars from which many of our ancestors come. I love nature and I'm as intense about environmental activism as I am about Black activism. I believe that all Children of the Sun should champion the environment in direct opposition to those who continue to destroy life for love of money. Feel me?
I'm bigtime into pen-pal-ing (snail-mail) I do long letters, short letters, friendship books, artsy postcards or regular postcards and all that, so if any of y'all out there are too - let's hook up!
Oh, and y'all should know...
I have many names, Spiralhead is just one of them. Pro-Black Sista is another. The one my mother gave me is Kathryn. My husband's name makes the official moniker: Kathryn Slaughter - but I don't dig that much and think it looks better with a well-placed apostrophe, like this:
Kathryn's Laughter
What do you think? Better right?
My main nicknames are Kat or Kaety TwoBirds. The Afrikan name that I chose for myself is Safiya Adwoa (because Safiya means the same as Kathryn..."pure") ...and in the name thang I was looking it up in Adwoa meant "peace"...but I have since heard that it really means born on Monday. Not quite the same thing - especially cause I was born on a Thursday. But being me, I decided not to sweat it but to keep peace as it's meaning for me. I am also Whimsikat - that's the name I use as a visual artist. Oh and if you ever run across a bala manjaro - that's me, too.
Pure Peace 2 Ya!
Some of my artwork
I also design jewelry...here's a few pieces:
