THE NIGHT GRANDMA DIED

[3 min read]

Mother became an orphan that night.
The night was warm, and I was in my room relaxing from the day's work when I heard shouting from the room grandma stayed in. I sprinted to her room, trying as hard as I could to imagine positive things, pushing the negatives out of my mind...
...we need to get her to the hospital
     ...tires screeching  
          ...I'm sorry but I can't feel a pulse
                ...she can't be dead
                          ...

Heroes

[2min Read]

I never knew my father,
But I had heard from my mother,
That he was the best hero there ever was,
With his smile he ended wars.

East of Eden (A novel by John Steinbeck)

Review:

East of Eden is a novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1952. It is a biblical recreation of Cain and Abel woven into the Salinas valley of California, which in a way depicts the garden of Eden. It tells the story of the Trasks brothers (Adam and Charles) and it is quite an east of perfection redefined.

Be The Smart One

Many years ago in a small Indian Village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The Moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful Daughter. So he proposed a bargain.

He said he would forgo the farmer’s debt if he could marry his Daughter. Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the Proposal.

"If"

By Paul Harvey

If I were the Devil.....

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world.

I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings.

I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around.

I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue.

I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership.

The Casualties

THE CASUALTIES

By Boluwatife Afolabi

Ifem,

Life is a battle

and like all similar debacles

we must deal with casualties,

cry for them,

become them even-

Husbands,

too broken to return-

to eager wives

to hungry kids

to randy mistresses.

Is it worth it? Being a “NICE GUY”…

(This post is from a few years back when I was struggling with a lot of uncertainties. It's still more or less a classic, so you can check it out...)

Is it really worth it?
Honestly? I can’t say for sure anymore.

Let me tell you what people think about 'Nice Guys'. Nice guys make sacrifices. Nice guys relinquish all pleasure and ignore their desires to please people. Nice guys don’t DO danger. Nice guys don’t go after girls/ladies – oh no, NEVER {rolls-eyes}. Nice guys are safe to be around. Nice guys never “go too far”. Nice guys get kicked around like tires and do nothing about it. Nice guys will open the door for you, give up their seat for you, buy you a free meal and never remind you of it, keep a polite distance away and NEVER come too close, say the nicest words and never have alternative thoughts, never take advantage of you or circumstances, are always in good cheer and seem never to get angry. All in all, basically – Nice guys are nice.

No Charge For Love

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the 4 pups, and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard.

Generational Hate

"And she gathered the children of many races into her arms, And said, "Hate dies here — be brothers."
~Harriet Monroe, "America," in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, December 1918

The First Time I Fell in Love

"Love is blind, because Mother started loving me - before she saw my face"

The first time I fell in love
By Jamike Ekennia-Ebeh
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The first time I fell in love; I couldn't understand it.
I was then so young and felt life was a gambit
But to me it didn't matter, this was love at first sight
It was a love that felt, even, righter than right
So I gazed at love.... and love gazed back
See.....the first time I fell? I fell right on track

Legends of The Birthday Boy.....

Please take a minute or two to watch this short video excerpt on my birthday about a lil something I want to tell you.... :)