Helping Our Young Black Men-Part 3

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I had the opportunity to meet a young black male over the weekend while I was in California at the 168 Hour Film Festival .  His name was LaMar and he was 15 years old.  What struck me immediately was that when his grandmother introduced us to one another, he looked me straight in the eyes, gave me a firm handshake and called me ‘Sir’.  "Did he just call me, Sir?"  When he did these things, I immediately thought to myself, "Now this young man has been given some real training."

“DESTINY IS WAITING ON US” (formerly posted on February 6, 2008)

My Writing Accountability Partner, Tisha Y. Lewis, spoke these words to me after hearing about my speaking opportunity at Bethune-Cookman University in January ’07:  I was able to dialogue with Communication and Theater Arts students about linking their experience with opportunities while sharing from my book, Transition: Breaking Through the Barriers.  This was an exciting and uncomfortable time: exciting because speaking here was one of my dreams; uncomfortable because I had never done it before.  Yet through the mixed emotions, there was fulfillment!
 
“Destiny is waiting on us.”  This phrase is fascinating, yet unnerving because destiny is often thought of as something we wait on.  But similar to the scientific discovery that light is both particle and a wave; perhaps we too will realize that destiny is both given and received.

What Dreams live inside of you?

(Posted October 29, 2007)

As I walked into my place of employment and waited for the elevator… hesitation overtook me as the dreams that live inside of me suddenly swelled up in my mind. Where did this come from? “…Lord is it possible?” Everything seemed so far fetched from where I stood - almost too fantastic to ever come to pass. And what made it worse was that I was becoming afraid to believe them.

I just returned from a trip to Texas. It was amazing and made me very grateful to be alive. You can read about it more at the link below.

Texas, Suicide and Purpose

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