Let it be written . . . and spoken . . . and shared! “Where there is no vision, the people perish” - Proverbs 29:18 Your Success Newsletter - Mar-Apr, 2013 - Published Bi-Monthly Henry & Dianne Ford Publishers IN THIS ISSUE Pg. 1 - Let it be written . . . Pg. 2 - Youth & Young Adult: Sistah’s Networking Pg 3 - Mzkimp Sweetz Pg. 3 - Technology: Blessing or Curse? Pg. 4 - Kent State Diversity Program with Leon Bibb Pg. 6 - Rev. Charles Lucas: Walking the Walk Pg. 7 - Willie Johnson: “You” in Attitude Pg. 8 - Graduation: Weddings & More Pg. 8 - THANK YOU! O.K., this is hard to believe! Not the part where my ability to think suddenly left me; that’s believable. I’m referring to the part about the ”circumstance” that is not! While preparing to write this page, I was suddenly struck with a bad case of “You have nothing in your head at the moment.” I decided to look at the Mar- Apr, 2012 issue to jog my memory. The Page 1 subject a year ago was “Go Tell It On The Mountain, Over the Hills and Everywhere!” I wrote of the importance of telling your story. Well, I just completed the article about experiencing Leon Bibb’s story-telling skills. In addition, just this morning I received and viewed a twenty minute video from my mentor Harvey Alston, entitled “Danger of a single story.” Sometimes the answer is knocking at the door, and we just need to open that door! In the video, novelist Chimamanda Adichie, a talented young lady from Nigeria speaks eloquently in a work entitled The danger of a single story. She states that “Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories.” She tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice, and warns that “if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.” How different might be our expectations and our reality if we had earlier exposure to another version of Christopher Columbus, or how the American West was “settled.” and I could go on and on, but that’s not necessary. Understand that expectations become actions that become habits that become our reality. We must become seekers and sharers of knowledge. Open minds, open hearts, and open books help us become so, along with alternatives to the readily available forms of discriminatory news and views that devalue and diminish the human spirit. THANK YOU for contributing to, reading and sharing VISIONS Newsletter. Whatever your level of involvement and support, you are an important part of telling our story. “History is Fables rewritten” - Napoleon “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Let it be written . . . and spoken . . . and shared!
“Where there is no vision, the people perish” - Proverbs 29:18
Your Success Newsletter - Mar-Apr, 2013 - Published Bi-Monthly
Henry & Dianne Ford
Publishers
IN THIS ISSUE
Pg. 1 - Let it be written . . .
Pg. 2 - Youth & Young Adult: Sistah’s Networking
Pg 3 - Mzkimp Sweetz
Pg. 3 - Technology: Blessing or Curse?
Pg. 4 - Kent State Diversity Program with Leon Bibb
Pg. 6 - Rev. Charles Lucas: Walking the Walk
Pg. 7 - Willie Johnson: “You” in Attitude
Pg. 8 - Graduation: Weddings & More
Pg. 8 - THANK YOU!
O.K., this is hard to believe! Not the part
where my ability to think suddenly left me;
that’s believable. I’m referring to the part
about the ”circumstance” that is not!
While preparing to write this page, I was
suddenly struck with a bad case of “You
have nothing in your head at the
moment.” I decided to look at the Mar-
Apr, 2012 issue to jog my memory. The
Page 1 subject a year ago was “Go Tell It
On The Mountain, Over the Hills and
Everywhere!” I wrote of the importance of
telling your story. Well, I just completed the
article about experiencing Leon Bibb’s
story-telling skills. In addition, just this
morning I received and viewed a twenty
minute video from my mentor Harvey
Alston, entitled “Danger of a single story.”
Sometimes the answer is knocking at the
door, and we just need to open that door!
In the video, novelist Chimamanda
Adichie, a talented young lady from
Nigeria speaks eloquently in a work entitled
The danger of a single story. She states
that “Our lives, our cultures, are composed
of many overlapping stories.” She tells the
story of how she found her authentic
cultural voice, and warns that “if we hear
only a single story about another person or
c o u n t r y , w e r i s k a c r i t i c a l
misunderstanding.”
How different might be our expectations
and our reality if we had earlier exposure to
another version of Christopher Columbus, or
how the American West was “settled.” and I
could go on and on, but that’s not
necessary. Understand that expectations
become actions that become habits that
become our reality.
We must become seekers and sharers of
knowledge. Open minds, open hearts, and
open books help us become so, along with
alternatives to the readily available forms of
discriminatory news and views that devalue
and diminish the human spirit.
THANK YOU for contributing to, reading and
sharing VISIONS Newsletter. Whatever your
level of involvement and support, you are
an important part of telling our story.
“History is Fables rewritten” - Napoleon
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dianne Ford - Editor
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