This month the word is Curiosity. It means a strong desire to know or learn something. This is the thing that keeps us fresh, fun and alive. This month I will explore all of these things.
Affirmation
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Book of the Quarter
Destiny’s Dilemma
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
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Affirmation
A guiding principle in Truth’s life was courage.
She made choices throughout her life that reflected her
courage in life as she did not defer to danger or pain. She did not shrink back
but approached it with full force.
She is an example for me of what courageous looks like.
Book of the Quarter
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
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Affirmation
Sometimes being courageous comes when you are at the point where you just can’t take the circumstances anymore. Several times in her life, Sojourner Truth found herself in a place where she made a choice that others would not make.
Sometimes courage is being scared but doing the right thing.
Affirmation
If courageous was a person, Sojourner Truth would be it. She was born enslaved but spent her life fighting for freedom and truth. She faced hard situations but met them with a type of courage that doesn’t happen often.
She freed herself and young child. She went to court to fight for her son’s freedom. After slavery was over, she fought for equal rights for former slaves and women. She was not deterred by the danger or the pain.
Affirmation
The word is courageous. It means not deterred by danger or pain, brave
Sometimes we have to look pass the hard things and walk towards it.
Book of the Month
Destiny’s Dilemma
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
Available on Amazon.com
or Books2read.com which include Barnes & Noble, Apple, Indigo and more
Monthly ReWind
February was a busy month!
I did three Road Scholar presentations this month. Elmhurst Publoc Library. Galesburg Public Library. Rock Springs Nature Center.
I attended the Humanties Breakfast where I met National Endowment for the Humanties Chair Shelly Lowe.
I attended the Bill Johnson Black Film Festival with cast and crew of the short film, The Invitation.
I am tired now.
It was a good Black History Month.
Affirmation
You find out what you love when you are put to the test. If you love it, it stays. If you don’t love it, you allow it to go.
Phyllis Wheatley Peters wrote from the intersection of childhood, womanhood, slave, former slave, married woman, Christian and human being.
Phyllis loved writing. She wrote her entire life. But as a young girl she found herself in the room with some of the most powerful men in the country who thought she was incapable of writing so well.
She showed them who she was and that she was very capable.
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