By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)
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Dear Hannah,
I want you to see how to be free ...
I want you to see how to be free ...
... how to forge your own path in your own happy space.
... how to leave an inheritance to your children's children ...
... an inheritance of your heart - full of treasure beyond measure.
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"Renaissance"
By Derrick Brown
1-7-2017
my name is Derrick.
my name means
"leader of his people".
my education began
when i finished school.
learning led
to unlearning ...
then a revival
of RElearning
and culture.
i am relearning
both my essence
and function ...
as a
lover
"liver"
friend
giver
servant
leader
student
reader
provider
protector
connector
director
selector
collector
erector
inspector
i am relearning that ...
... teaching
is about reaching
... knowing
is knowing that
you DON'T know
... my gifts can
impact the world
... i can relate
to people with
great empathy
and engage the world
around me
through
acceptance
affirmation
accountability
& authority
... tradition begins
and ends with change.
... everything must change
- and STAY changED.
... i will build
a dream team
and strategic scheme
that will manifest
all my GOoD ideas.
... prophecy is not seeing
"the future"
it is understanding
"the past"
and speaking
truth to power
in "the present".
... vision is seeing
an idea clearly enough
to stir your passions
and cloudy enough
to make you move towards it
with enthusiasm
and careful intent.
i am relearning that
i am a ...
mastermind
simple kinda fella
griot frio
stand-up storytella
... i can execute
any role necessary
to express myself
to this world ...
writer
producer
DJ
emcee
teacher
preacher
commentator
poet
songbird
percussionist
sax player
soothsayer
... i have taken command
of my time and talents,
and invested both
into building and protecting
my creative space
my happy, safe place
where finally
i get to be all of me
who i always was
who i am
who i wanna be.
... it will take
all of that
and all of me
moving with
urgency
purpose
strategy
tenacity
pregnant
with ideas & visions
armed with
mighty pen, pad
and boundless
imagination
craving
knowledge and wisdom
braving
my risky decisions
saving
my best for last
to cash in
all of these chips.
... to make that happen,
i know that
standards must be set
for battles yet
to be waged,
by tigers yet
to be caged,
believers yet
to be enraged,
soldiers yet
to be engaged.
... i am on a mission to
challenge us to more than
learning to show
learning to owe
I'm about
learning to grow
learning to know
i want my wife to see
that this evolution of
the best version of me
is because of her love
and the freedom it grants.
i want my daughter to see
how to be free
to forge her own path
in her own happy space
and leave an inheritance
to her children's children ...
... an inheritance of her heart
full of treasure beyond measure.
welcome to my renaissance.
Love,
Daddy
Daddy
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