we get to celebrate this beautiful sister's marriage tonight

today i'll be running around like a chicken with her head loose getting ready for my sister's wedding reception tonight.

how i love having four sisters. i always feel sorry for girls without sisters.  that would be a really tight place. i can't imagine not having that handful of people who absolutely get it, and who will always have your back.

so glad we'll all be together tonight.

here's one of my favorite poets, lucille clifton, who we lost in 2010, on her sister:

sisters

by Lucille Clifton

for elaine philip on her birthday

me and you be sisters.

we be the same.

me and you

coming from the same place.

me and you

be greasing our legs

touching up our edges.

me and you

be scared of rats

be stepping on roaches.

me and you

come running high down purdy street one time

and mama laugh and shake her head at

me and you.

me and you

got babies

got thirty-five

got black

let our hair go back

be loving ourselves

be loving ourselves

be sisters.

only where you sing

i poet.

inspiration:  kristin, hilary, katie, and valorie

looking forward to: a hot wedding band, beautiful dresses, strawberries and cream