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POEM: Elegy: Cousin Tish – Baby Woman Mother
Elegy: Cousin Tish – Baby Woman Mother Playing house is different with baby cousins, lil’ brothers and sisters and the mannish boys in the neighborhood. Who needs a fake baby with real baby cousins in reach? Tish was a chubby, curly-haired infant, rosy-cheeked girly-girl toddler adorable, rambunctious, loved. Rolling over, pushing up learning to walk, run circles around folks from the house and yard to Grandma’s vegetable garden; real life cabbage patch doll blooming up and down the street, burrowing roots, extending networks. Too soon, I was no fun; just a boring old cousin to a womanish girl who preferred smokin’ weed as boys circled and plotted in her haze.…
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Everything I Thought I Knew About Diabetes Was Wrong
Did you know diabetes mellitus is a term for a group of disorders that cause elevated blood sugar (aka glucose) levels in the body? Known by it’s first name, diabetes is a chronic (aka long-lasting) condition that affects how your body turns food into energy. Glucose is a critical source of energy for your brain, muscles, and tissues. When you eat, your body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose (sugar) which is released into your bloodstream. This triggers the pancreas to release a hormone called insulin. Insulin acts as a “key” that allows glucose to enter the cells from the blood. If your body doesn’t produce enough insulin to effectively manage…
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Poem: Sister, Sister II
She avoided me for eleven years. Whatever her reasons, no rejection has ever hurt more. Most of those absent years she called me on my birthday to let me know she was still alive. Quite honestly, her voice was the best present every time. **Read full post.**
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Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace, Life, On the Road, Self: Knowledge, Acceptance and Love, Spirit Harvest
Family Dilemma
Family Dilemma: She wants a connection, yet she keeps burning the bridge we’re meeting on. I see it. I get it. I’m just not here for it. I’m over all this foolishness in my life.
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Acceptance and Love, Episodes of Clarity, Family and Friend Relationships, Knowledge & Understanding, Life, On the Road, Spirit Harvest, Walking in the Word
Sermon: Family Matters – Present
Family Matters - Present Has there ever been an ideal Biblical family? The First Family: Adam and Eve raised a murderer God eventually had a do-over with humanity The Second First Family: Noah’s son, Ham, raped his mother while his father was passed out drunk next to her
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Acceptance and Love, Family and Friend Relationships, Inspiration from Other Authors, Life, Sermon, Spirit Harvest
Sermon: Family Matters – Future
Family Matters - Future You can still have the family you envisioned. Just becauae you've suffered loss doesn't mean all is lost. Its never too late to go back and grieve something you didn't grieve before and move forward from there.
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Indigenous Peoples Celebration
Personally, I think the United States should dedicate a year, at the minimum, to acknowledging the atrocities committed against Indigenous Peoples on the mainland United States as well as in outlying states and territories.
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Family, Individuals, Events – Life
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ANNA MURRAY-DOUGLASS: MY MOTHER AS I RECALL HER
Looking backward over a space of fifty years or more, I have in remembrance two travelers whose lives were ·real in their activity; two lives that have indelibly impressed themselves upon my memory; two lives whose energy and best ability was exerted to make my life what it should be, and who gave me a home where wisdom and industry went hand in hand; where instruction was given that a cultivated brain and an industrious hand were the twin conditions that lead to a well balanced and useful life. These two lives were embodied in the personalities of Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray his wife. They met at the base…
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Film: A Dream for Christmas (1973)
A Dream for Christmas was made in 1973 but is set in 1950. It should be on a classic Christmas movie rotation every year, but it's not. It's a really good story about a family working together through change and challenges. It's a slice of life and a looking glass into an every day poor African-American experience pre-Civil Rights Movement. Very intriguing. Very warm. Very well done.
