Grandma and Them Be Knowing
Proverbs 13:14Grandma and them be knowing.I just got back from Wild Goose in North Carolina—shout-out to my Wild Goose family! A highlight was Jaki Shelton Green’s workshop. She’s been North Carolina’s poet laureate since 2018.She invited us to close our eyes, feel our cells and imagine the lineage they carry—the lives of our ancestors.Now, I’m the average American male. My emotional acuity hasn’t been sharp, but I’m working on it! So I sat, eyes closed, an obedient but wild goose, leaning into something a little “woo-woo.”But baby, I was there for it.My father’s family comes from the…
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