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This time marks the start of another exciting chapter in our lives! I try and greet every New Year with a good attitude; it’s a good time of year to re-prioritize who you are and where you’re going.

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." –Oprah

The New Year is also about a clean slate and new energy to accomplish those goals after spending the holiday season eating all the wrong foods, sleeping too little and celebrating too much!

2013 allows the opportunity to create the greatest year yet! How you shape your destiny will be determined by the quality of the decisions you make. The most important decision to make is to clear up all negative influences and entities on and around your energy field. Resolutions usually sound impressive but rarely carry follow through. Goals are different. Goals are measurable. Goals carry with them a sense of accountability. Goals are intentional; resolutions are just good intentions.

Feeding your soul, nurturing your spirit and eating health IS the goal!

Andrea Pippins, a Baltimore-based graphic designer, released a four-poster series of prints titled “Crowns of Color” last week as answer for her need of diverse affordable art a light-hearted celebration of black women’s hair.

In a recent magazine interview, Pippins describes how she hopes to steer the black hair conversation in a different direction, “With all due respect, I am personally tired of the natural hair conversation in regards to one having to defend the choice to go natural, encouraging someone to go natural, or speaking to it from a place of political debate.”

Crowns of Color is meant to be celebratory, quirky, and a documentation of our culture. Like the barbershop signs from Africa. Although they are simply style guides for the clients who patron the shop they are also reflections of history—a record of what hairstyles were hot at different periods of time in different parts of the continent. I wanted to pay homage to that.

Andrea Pippins ROCKS!