You're Invited
Yesterday I expected 7 or 8 people to show up, but as I stood and faced those in attendance I saw that the room was packed. Karen White, the co-founder of the Afro-American Association of Fauquier County introduced me as a dynamite story teller, so I stepped into the narrative. I shared about my drive through the beautiful rolling hills of Leeton Farms, only a few miles from the historic brick building that I was standing in at that very moment. I was so caught up and taken by the account of my 4th great-grandfather who ran away from enslavement there from atty general Charles Lee in 1814. Sharing the account in a way to help the audience come with me, and see with me. My vulnerability sprung up and my face flooded with tears. I made no apologies for the sentiment and passion that arises as I steward the historical accounts and sacred lives of the ancestors. Their stories hold lessons and ways of being that can help us amass upon deeper levels of our ...