Category: Personal Thoughts
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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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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…
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Shedding Old Skin, Exploring New Work: Jezebel, Malcolm X, and Ikigai
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HERE ME READ THIS POST INSTEAD. Old skin. That’s what I’ve been calling the aspects of my life that’s been feeling so womp-womp lately. My habit of spending hours on social media with no satisfaction in return was…THAT. Old skin shit. How I’m spending my time and my attention during…