Author: Trelani
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Got Me Looking Ridiculous, But It’s All Good
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“Every day won’t feel like awe,” I said to myself out loud. My day was starting off ROUGH. One thing after the other. Headed to TJ Maxx to find a dress for my untamed women performance lecture the next day. Realized I was 30 minutes too early. They hadn’t opened…
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Who S’Posed to Call Me Boom Now?
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“Don’t worry. Ya hear me, Boom? Worrying make ya older faster. Look at me. I don’t look nothing like them guys I went to school with. Because I don’t worry,” Uncle Larry said, and meant that shit too. Telling someone who’s worrying not to worry has rarely, if ever, in…
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Child, Go Get Yo Friend
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“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.” —Toni Morrison, Beloved Headline I saw said the loneliest part of retirement is realizing that most of your relationships were held together by…
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We Got Time: Wild Women Been Saying So
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The Untamed Women event at Carnegie week before last was special. I invited a couple elder wild women that I know personally, and I quoted them in the presentation. The first quote was from Ms. Barbara Price. While replacing the hooks on my wedding dress around this time last year,…
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A Country Parable and a Changed Mind
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A woman and a man headed down the road, running low on gas. The man, he gon want to get to the station soon as possible. The woman, she see some lilies on the side of the road and she wanna stop and pick some. He know if they run…