A fellow blogger asked the question, “What song do you want to be remembered by?” My tastes are too eclectic to name just one. However, I have one in particular that needs to be played at my funeral…
Author: gregoryjoel
I'm the Farm Manager for Opal's Farm - a non-profit5 acre urban farm in Fort Worth that grows for neighborhoods denied access to fresh, nutritious produce through food apartheid. I firmly believe that not only is healthy food a human right, it is also what brings us together Everyone has a seat at the table!
The Past Need Not Be the Future
“History, despite its wrenching pain
Cannot be unlived, but if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.”
– Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning”
This One’s for You Bear…
Grief changes the way you hear the music. Substitute “Baby” for Jeremy” or “Son” and this one is, well…
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” – Frederick Douglass
“In the darkness of the womb, the future is waiting to be born.” – Shannon Casey
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