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Child, Go Get Yo Friend
“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
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
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
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
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…