Category: knowledge
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Ignorantly Smart
Sometimes we are the joke, even when we can’t see it, and especially when we’re ignorantly smart. What does that mean? Keep reading . . . In a conversation with an acquaintance, he spoke of his father’s recent death and how he and his brother had inherited his father’s land along with cattle and horses.…
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The Day the Music Died
“Sorry I left you. I left you cryin’. . . .” — Jodeci’s “Stay” I’ve always been quite the music junkie. I grew up on music. It wrote the chapters of my life. From a knock-kneed little girl sporting red, crinkly ponytails and spinning Al Green and Funkadelic albums on the living room floor of…
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We Will Rise . . . Like A Tomato Seed
As I watch these tomatoes sprouting up from the ground, I hear Lupe’s song in the background. The one where he says, “Like a Phoenix, from its ashes, we will rise. . . .” Let me tell you the story of my tomatoes that rose from the ashes, and then I will tell you why,…