Author: Trelani
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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…
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Gaman, Eid, and an ATL Invite
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I have some food in my bag for you. Not that edible food. The food you eat? No, I have some food for thought. —Erykah Badu, “Appletree” Gaman is another Japanese philosophy I learned about recently and been trying my best to practice. It means “enduring the seemingly unbearable with…