Dear Hannah: LEarning (Letters To My Daughter (A One-Man Show))

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

 

Dear Hannah,

My name is Derrick.

My name means "leader of his people".

I am Keisha's husband, and Hannah's father.

I am a “standup storyteller.”

I fuse rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change.

Everything must change - and stay changED.

Tradition begins and ends with change.

Change begins with me and the renewing of my mind.

I teach students - not subjects.

This a "loaded" statement (lots of layers).

Let me unpack it.

When the student is ready, the teacher will teach.

I have taught many lessons before the students showed up.

See - you're not ready until you're ready to get ready.

Then if you stay ready, y'all, you won't have to get ready.

*Subjects* are not just the courses we study in school.

"Subjects" also refers to the way most of us are *treated* in school.

We are greater than "less than".

But we are often treated like "less than".

We often treat each other as "less than".

As a teacher, I am often treated as "less than" (by students and adults).

And still I rise.

Let's take a trip, folks.

Let's journey to the temple of my familiar.

A world where I am free to be all of me in liberty.

That kind of freedom ain't free.

But victory is for me ... I qualify.

And I believe.

 

I put this show together to share that belief.

Love,

Daddy

 

 

U Can't C Me (A One-Man Show)

Run Of Show

 

1. A Tree That Harvests Good Fruit (Delivered at Blondell McCoy Brown's Homegoing) (Dropbox)
2. Purpose Is More Important Than Ambition (Derrick Brown Performs THE TRILOGY (UCSM, SYG, GRASPP) Live) 
3. LEarning (Move)
4. GRASPP (Battle Plan)
5. Teach Students, Not Subjects (Johney)
6. LEarning (Watch Me (Work))
7. LEarning (Ain't Goin' Nowhere)
8. LEarning (Say What)
9. LEarning (Stand Your Ground (Family Reunion 2018 Remix))
10. LEarning (What They Say)
11. LEarning (I Believe (Keep Your Peace))
12. LEarning (Thank You)
13. LEarning (All For One (Family Anthem)) | Remix (Live at 2023 Family Reunion) (Dropbox)
14. LEarning (Reflections (and Corrections))
15. LEarning (Better Me)
16. LEarning (Joy)
17. LEarning (Cast (Caste) (AKA The Show Must Go On))
18. LEarning (#YourStory)
19. LEarning (Holler) (Dropbox)
    
20. LEarning (Reconciliation (Not Done Yet))
21. LEarning (Hang In There (See It Through, See Through It))

About Derrick Brown (Standup Storyteller)

 

 

I am Keisha's husband, and Hannah's father.

I am a “standup storyteller.”

I fuse rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change that I write, direct, and produce to help people who help people.

Everything must change - and stay changED.

Tradition begins and ends with change.

Change begins with me and the renewing of my mind ... then continues through efforts to effect small-group discipleship (equipping others to equip others) with audiences that respect and embrace mentoring, mediation, and problem solving as tools of change.

I am the product of my mentoring relationships, peacemaking (and peacekeeping), and problem-solving ability.

My education began when I finished school.

After school, I enrolled in a lifelong curriculum that includes classes in ministry, entrepreneurship, stewardship, literacy, numeracy, language, self-identity, self-expression, and analysis / synthesis.

My projects execute a ministry that has evolved from wisdom earned through lessons learned.

I want to share this wisdom to build teams of "triple threat" fellows - mentors, mediators, and problem solvers.

We will collaborate in simple, powerful ways that allow us to help people who help people.

I now know that power is work done efficiently (with wise and skillful use of resources, interests, communication, and expertise).

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