SPEAKER | AUTHOR | TRANSFORMATION STRATEGIST
I can hear the disbelief in students’ comments when they say, “I just can’t understand how someone would do something so monstrous.” I don’t have answers to their implicit “Whys”… How did I separate loving my family from blindly accepting counter-intuitive ideas about other humans? How did I avoid treating others the way they treated my people? I was forced into proximity with THEM…
Category: Bouts of Human Proportion, Submission to Truth
In the 33 years since I stopped waking up before dawn to catch a city bus to a school bus which then drove me 34 miles to the promised land, I have only recently processed the significance of the 900 days I spent hunting down equity.
Category: Character, For Further Study, Submission to Truth, Today's Post
R&B singer Eric Benet once sang, on the title track of his 1996 release True to Myself, “It’s so very hard to know which way to go. A lie can be the gospel truth if eloquently told.” Have you ever wondered if when people see you they are seeing the real you? Is not the …
Continue reading “The bravest are the curious.”
Category: Submission to Truth
I was told today that 25% of people are psychopaths or have the tendencies of one. One in Four! Seriously? I’m talking completely from ignorance but the person dropping science on me said that the tell-tale signs include things like an inability to feel and be slowed by human emotions. Apparently those classified as psychopaths …
Continue reading “Interrupting Your Worst Self”
Category: Submission to Truth
I don’t know what I want my son to do for a living. People, “…bet he’s hoopin’ as soon as he can dribble” but why would I force him to do that? He seems athletic but maybe y’all can chime in as to whether or not 15-month olds demonstrate anomalous athleticism this early. Right about …
Continue reading “Babies: Masters of Networking”
Category: For Further Study, Skills, Submission to Truth
That’s the sound in the quiet that let’s you know it’s quiet. And it’s the metaphorical sound people bring attention to when we are silent in times of crisis. I stopped writing this for a second just to stalk my Facebook news feed. What did I see? Top 10 dunks from a guy who used …
Category: Bigger than Me, Submission to Truth
I knew I was going to be late to work this morning. I invoked the snooze sleep theft device because I had showered the night prior and needed only to select my day’s wardrobe from a mountain range of clean clothes that fills the canyon between my side of the bed and the west wall …
Continue reading “NO RIGHT ON RED”
Category: Submission to Truth
