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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_ EPISODE _158_ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Hey, you guys, This another Saturday night and welcome the
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  Speaker 2: to continue this journey where I get to talk to
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  Speaker 2: the authors of the best selling book Footprints in the Sand.
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  Speaker 2: The Legacy chronicles a journey through time and eternity. You guys,
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  Speaker 2: I did say Amazon best selling book, correct, So let's
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  Speaker 2: So tonight I'm going to be chatting with one of
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  Speaker 2: the authors of that book. And her name is author
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  Speaker 2: Ramanda Pyle, so we're gonna have her come on up
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  Speaker 2: and join us and talk about writing this book. Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, good evening, Good evening.
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  Speaker 5: How are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I am great? So welcome to sc book gals and
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  Speaker 2: friends and pert.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well, I'm an author. I have you know,
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  Speaker 1: several books. I'm a social worker. I work in the
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  Speaker 1: field of aging with grandparents raising grandchildren. Kier Gibbers was
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  Speaker 1: taking care of someone with Alzheimer's and dementia. And I've been
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  Speaker 1: a social worker for a number of years. I love God,
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  Speaker 1: I love family, I love friends, I love sports. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a New York Liberty, New York Mets and New York
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  Speaker 1: Knicks fan. Had to put that in there. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's like an quick overview.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sports person, So you think your team have it
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  Speaker 2: this year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so, you think? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay. I just started watching the w NBA, and
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  Speaker 2: I kid you not. I started watching because they have
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  Speaker 2: this mascot. I think she's an elephant. Yeah, Ellie.
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  Speaker 1: Ellie. My niece loves Ellie.
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  Speaker 2: It is the coolest thing to see this mascot. So
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  Speaker 2: I just started watching the games. I can see her. So,
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  Speaker 2: So Footprints in the Sand of Time. Tell me about
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  Speaker 2: your journey with this book.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've worked with Angela before, so once she sent it,
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  Speaker 1: I really wanted to participate because I write poetry, and
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  Speaker 1: so I have a lot of poems that I've written
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted to write you a new one. So
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  Speaker 1: as soon as she sent it to me, I was
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  Speaker 1: really interested because you know, some of the categories I
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  Speaker 1: felt like my poems could fit in.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And if you guys wonder who Angela is, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: she is a the visionary of the Crew podcast inspiring
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  Speaker 2: off this magazine Texas Camping, y'all. On top of somebody
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  Speaker 2: who wear fifty million hats, this lady wears fifty million
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  Speaker 2: in a one and she is a blessing to almost
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  Speaker 2: anybody who works with her. So hats off to her
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  Speaker 2: and to getting this group of ladies together. And if
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  Speaker 2: you want to meet her, come to Charles in October nineteenth.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you about that more later on, right. So
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  Speaker 2: what categories are your points featured in the book?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? My goodness, I would have to look to tell
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  Speaker 1: you the category the top of my head. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: in like, I think five five different categories. But I don't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can't really just name them, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: the top of my head like that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's fine. So when you're writing your poetry, are
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  Speaker 2: you writing it for yourself or are you writing it
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  Speaker 2: because you were inspired by something? But what brings your
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  Speaker 2: poetry out?
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  Speaker 1: Well, just to give you a little history, I just
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  Speaker 1: I like to write, and I started writing poetry for
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  Speaker 1: different events, like if someone was getting married. Jobs I
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  Speaker 1: worked on, they started having black history programs, so I
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  Speaker 1: started writing poetry for that, you know, if somebody had
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  Speaker 1: a specially been in the family, somebody had a baby, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: I would just write a poem. And a number of
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  Speaker 1: people started telling me you should publish these poems. And
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  Speaker 1: so I write about everything and anything. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've written poems about love and you know, my love life,
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  Speaker 1: if you can call it that, and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: different things. So I write about anything and everything. I've
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  Speaker 1: written poems for church events. So I'm I write about everything.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So what made you want to become an
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  Speaker 2: author and to place your poetry for the world to see.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I really wanted to become an author.
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  Speaker 1: What happened was I was a very introverted child and
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  Speaker 1: when I was in eighth grade, my and I never
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  Speaker 1: forget my English teacher, Miss Gifskin, told me that I
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  Speaker 1: had a creative writing ability. So that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that she told me that my teacher told me
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  Speaker 1: that stuck with me. So I would more so write
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  Speaker 1: just to express my feelings. It wasn't like that I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to become an author, and then, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: everyone was telling me, you know, publish these poems, publish
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  Speaker 1: these poems. So that's why I published them. And then
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  Speaker 1: I realized that, hey, this is a gift, and I should,
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  Speaker 1: you know, publish more. But I don't really have the
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  Speaker 1: dream of becoming an author.
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  Speaker 2: So in other words, it just came tell your lap
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  Speaker 2: what wasn't one of those ones? I understand? And I
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  Speaker 2: feel sometimes that those are the best authors, the ones
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  Speaker 2: who you know, don't put so much. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to say emphasis, because you should should, but those who
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  Speaker 2: let it come gradually, I really feel that those are
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  Speaker 2: great offers, especially when you come to poetry. Worse poetry
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  Speaker 2: is the worst poetry. And I've read some poetry and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, somebody, you know, pop you on your hand
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  Speaker 2: until you're write that point.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 2: So another question I want to ask you is what
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  Speaker 2: advice would you give a writer who's writing their first
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  Speaker 2: book of poetry.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would tell them to, you know, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: to be you know, as creative as they can and
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  Speaker 1: try to you know, write the verse poetry, not just
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  Speaker 1: about the same thing. I would also just tell them
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  Speaker 1: to keep doing it, to keep doing it. I would
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  Speaker 1: tell them, I would advise them to get an editor
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that the grammar is correct, and I
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  Speaker 1: would also advise them to copyright their poems before they
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  Speaker 1: publish it.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of things people. That's one thing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people do not do, and that's copyright their poetry.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you feel that is so important for authors?
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  Speaker 1: I think that is important for authors in general, But
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  Speaker 1: I also think it's important for poetry because your poetry
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  Speaker 1: could end up anywhere. If someone seize your poetry, they
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  Speaker 1: could say, oh, I'm going to use this at a
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  Speaker 1: school event tonight, or I'm going to use this at whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and so you don't really know where it's going to
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  Speaker 1: end up or who's going to use it. So you
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure that you know that you copyright it.
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  Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense, do you What do
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  Speaker 2: you say would be the hardest journey in you creating
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  Speaker 2: your book? Was it the copywriting, Was it the editing
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  Speaker 2: or just the actually figuring out which point goes in
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  Speaker 2: the book? Which part was actually the hardest.
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  Speaker 1: For me? It wasn't the copywriting. Copywriting it was pretty easy.
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  Speaker 1: You just have to have you know the funds to
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  Speaker 1: do it, but the for me, the editing and kind
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  Speaker 1: of deciding do I really want to put this one in?
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  Speaker 1: Do I really want to put that one in? Making
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  Speaker 1: that choice?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Do you have like I know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: authors who write poetry have notebooks all over the pig
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  Speaker 2: or are you an electronic person that has.
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  Speaker 1: No I have no books the old school, I have
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  Speaker 1: no books. So I write it. I write it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on paper first, then I put it on the computer.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So when you get finished, do you rip the
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  Speaker 2: point up so you don't use it again, or you
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  Speaker 2: just put an extra or you just let it be.
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  Speaker 1: So I couldn't hear you.
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  Speaker 2: So when you finished, when you decide this poem is
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  Speaker 2: going in the book?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't you decide that? Do you take that that poem
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  Speaker 2: where you have it written first? Do you put like
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  Speaker 2: an X through it so you don't use it again?
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  Speaker 2: Or rip it out or you just let it be
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  Speaker 2: because you might use it in another book?
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  Speaker 1: No, I just I keep them all in the notebook.
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  Speaker 1: But what I do is I transfer it to the
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  Speaker 1: computer and then I just have a list on the
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  Speaker 1: computer in case I need to send it anywhere. Or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but I just keep the notebooks. I guess eventually one
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  Speaker 1: day I might throw away the notebooks, but I keep
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  Speaker 1: all the notebooks.
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  Speaker 2: So the reason why I ask that. Okay, So I
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  Speaker 2: work at a public library and we had this young
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  Speaker 2: lady come in and she wanted to organize. She had
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  Speaker 2: we have these sessions called book a librarian. She came
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  Speaker 2: in with these four like competition notebooks, and she said,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to organize these poems. And We're all looking
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  Speaker 2: at her like, so, which, I mean, really, what you
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  Speaker 2: want us to do? She said, I would like for
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  Speaker 2: you to help me create a document so I could
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  Speaker 2: type them and rip them out. So I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm want of other people do that. So that's why
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  Speaker 2: I asked that question. And I was like, okay, so
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  Speaker 2: after you use the poem, do you deal with it?
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  Speaker 2: So understanding that answer, So, what was the hardest part
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  Speaker 2: about writing for this book? Deciding which poet goes in?
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  Speaker 2: What was the hardest part?
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, the hardest part of writing olds
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  Speaker 1: is like the grandma, because I'm not really that greater grandma,
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  Speaker 1: so I have to creative ability, but the grandma, you know,
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  Speaker 1: usually I have to get someone to really proof read
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  Speaker 1: it and make sure it's you know, drammatically correct, understandable.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate that because I've.
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  Speaker 1: Seen some craziness. But we appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a certain editor you go to or
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  Speaker 2: do you use different people?
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  Speaker 1: Well? I did. I did have a certain ede, but
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately she passed away this year. So just looking for
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  Speaker 1: someone else.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, now she got her words in the sky. That's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: That's so, you guys, we're gonna take a break and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna come back with off the pile and we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about this footprints of the saying. We're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: into the book. You guys, So we're gonna take a break.
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  Speaker 2: Join us back. Turn off the la.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not on the.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a shower, shower together, I'll watch your momma.
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  Speaker 1: Was that.
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  Speaker 2: Some well day?
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  Speaker 4: Save just turn off.
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  Speaker 5: This alright, you guys, we are back. We are back.
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  Speaker 2: So I have a question for you, h And my
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  Speaker 2: question is I was writing poetry change your life?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I think, for one thing, when I write, it
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  Speaker 1: comforts me and it also is a way for me
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  Speaker 1: to communicate and get things out that I normally wouldn't say.
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  Speaker 1: So I think in that way, it's changed my life.
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  Speaker 1: But I always thinking it's changed my life because there
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  Speaker 1: are people who really look forward to my poems and
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  Speaker 1: who want to hear them, and who whenever I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a part of a compilation, they want to get
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  Speaker 1: it because they want to read the poems. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think in those two ways it's really changed my life.
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  Speaker 2: That is great. What would you want somebody to take
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  Speaker 2: away from your poetry?
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  Speaker 1: I want them to for all of my writing, my
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  Speaker 1: poetry and my other writing. I always want people to
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  Speaker 1: who identify who may be going through the same situation,
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  Speaker 1: to see that they're not alone.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome? Is there another genre like a novel for some
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  Speaker 2: fiction non fiction that you think you might want to
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  Speaker 2: dabble into.
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  Speaker 1: I have a children's book, Grandma's Hands, Yes, book. I
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  Speaker 1: have two poetry books, and I have a devotional but
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  Speaker 1: it's like a compilation. I you know, I wrote a
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  Speaker 1: couple of devotions and other people submitted to them too,
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  Speaker 1: so and you know I've written devotions for other you know,
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  Speaker 1: other books, and I've also you know, contributed like articles.
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  Speaker 1: I write a lot of articles and journals, professional articles
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  Speaker 1: and journals too, for journals too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Wow, awesome, So say book Galden Friends. After our
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  Speaker 2: second half we have those fun questions, okay, and the
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  Speaker 2: fun questions we use we bring the books into mainstream.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you some questions. Okay, fine. Question
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  Speaker 2: number one, if you can have any of your poetry
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  Speaker 2: read by any celebrity, who would it be?
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  Speaker 1: Denzel Washington?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: What Denzil?
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  Speaker 1: Because he's just always been my favorite actor. I just
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  Speaker 1: think he's the best.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Huh, you gotta tell us your favorite Denzel movie?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Malcolm X. And I think for me because he
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  Speaker 1: really portrayed him and I think it's hard to become
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  Speaker 1: somebody else, So that just showed me what a great
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  Speaker 1: actor he was. He did and as a young girl,
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  Speaker 1: myun my uncle used to take us to in Harlem
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  Speaker 1: to hear Malcolm X him and I really had a
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  Speaker 1: clue what he was talking about, but he just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was Malcolm X in that movie. He was.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he looked at some lost journals,
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  Speaker 2: but he even had the facial structure when it cut
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  Speaker 2: his beard and stuff to look like Malcolm X. Now
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  Speaker 2: what female would you love to read your poor?
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  Speaker 1: I guess probably Angela Bassett. Oh. Okay, So now you
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  Speaker 1: gotta tell us what I guess just because the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's a great actress. I think she would
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  Speaker 1: do it justice because I think, you know, the different
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  Speaker 1: movies that she's been in, she's always done them justice.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do feel that she is one of Black
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood's most slept on actress. She has done from Tina
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  Speaker 2: Turner to I Won One to what else? She was in?
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  Speaker 2: Oh Tree, spring Back, Springing Back, most almost everything she's
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  Speaker 2: been in.
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  Speaker 1: She she played Catherine Jackson. Remember one year she played
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  Speaker 1: like a three movies excellent in all three.
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  Speaker 2: She did play Catherine Jackson in The Jackson Fide. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: she surely did.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So.
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  Speaker 2: If any of your poetry can be sung by a
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  Speaker 2: Christian artist.
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  Speaker 1: Who would it be? Cc c? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: You said that, You said that right on point? Now,
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  Speaker 2: why cc Wings.
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  Speaker 1: I just love Cec. I love her boys, I love
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  Speaker 1: her commitment to God and to her ministry, and I
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  Speaker 1: just think I don't think she's a person who plays
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  Speaker 1: with with stuff. I think she's very serious. So I
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  Speaker 1: would say, CC, yes.
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  Speaker 5: You can.
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  Speaker 2: You can actually see her growth in gospel music and
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  Speaker 2: her growth for God. See them through her music. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely absolutely. Okay, So one more, one more. If any
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  Speaker 2: of your poetry can be made into a movie, which
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  Speaker 2: point would it be or no, let's do better. If
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  Speaker 2: any of your books could be made into a movie,
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  Speaker 2: which book.
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  Speaker 1: Would it be? It'll be my children's storybook, Grandma's.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then who would play Grandma? When I read it?
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  Speaker 2: When I read your book, now, I thought Black Gospels,
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  Speaker 2: Grandma read the Divine? Yeah, yeah, I thought when I
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  Speaker 2: read Grandma's Hands. But who would you choose?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think that's a great choice,
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  Speaker 1: because I was sitting here thinking who would I choose?
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  Speaker 1: And so I think that's a great joace. I never
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  Speaker 1: really thought about who I would choose. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: read a divine went to great justice to it?
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  Speaker 2: All right? And who would be the child?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't really know a lot of Like years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I would have said Kiki Palma, but she's like she's
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  Speaker 1: a little too grown for it now, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know a lot of children actors. Really.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you said Kiki Palm. I'm trying to think back
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  Speaker 2: to the book. I Kiki Palma would be good. Young
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  Speaker 2: Kiki would be good. Yeah, I was thinking, uh, the
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  Speaker 2: three little girls, Dad is little girls one of those
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  Speaker 2: oh right, yeah sisters.
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  Speaker 1: But you know they've kind of grown now to you though.
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  Speaker 2: I know I saw them in you know, House of
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Pain is back and I saw yeah, yeah, like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, we see you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Grow up right in front of our eyes exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So you have a question someone would like to know
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: one of my podcasts, this is Black Diamond. She said,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: how do you prepare when writing poetry? Is there music,
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  Speaker 2: a quiet place or do words just flow?
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  Speaker 1: For me, I have to find a quiet place. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I'll go to a place where there's music. But usually
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  Speaker 1: for me I go to the library because if I'm
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: home and i'm writing, I get too distracted. Now if
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the phone rings, I gotta go answer it if something
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  Speaker 1: you know, So I usually go to the library and
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that's where I spend, like I would say, at least
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: six hours a week in the library, and I split
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the time up and that's when I do it. Sometimes
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I'll wear earphones and have on music depending on what
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I'm planning to write. But as a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: that just the quiet place.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you in your public library.
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  Speaker 1: I do. I wish I was was that quiet? I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: work was not quite like years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Though it's nothing like that, but yeah, nothing like that
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  Speaker 2: unless you're getting one of the study rooms. But we
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  Speaker 2: do have a lot of people to come in and study,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: and they have their headphones, and it's great when we
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: see them coming in and using the services that we have.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: So we're getting close to ending, and I always give
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  Speaker 2: my office a chance to say, what would you like
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to say to your readers.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I like to tell my readers
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: thank you, because you know, I appreciate them taking the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: time to read my books and to read my poems,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and I just want to thank them for their support.
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  Speaker 1: I would like them to note that one of the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: reasons I write, and one of the great things about
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: writing is that you never know who's going to read
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: your story. And Grandma's Hands is kind of a reflection
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: of my life. And like I said, I was an
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: introverted child. My mother left us with my father, and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: my grandmother stepped in to help raise us and me
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: and my siblings, and I was always the one who
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: was like depressed and down. I really wanted her, I
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: wanted her in the home, and it really bothered me
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: that she wasn't there, and I didn't really know anybody
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: else in the situation though even though now I know
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people in this situation, but
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't really know anybody at a time. And what
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: helped me was that I read Maya Angelo's book I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Know Why the Cage Bird Sings.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: So I always.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Encouraged everyone, if you have a story to tell, please
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: tell it. Tell it in some way, you can write
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: it whatever works for you, because there's someone out there
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: that needs to know your story and you can help
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: somebody else.
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  Speaker 4: And so.
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  Speaker 1: It's just amazing to me too, because just to give
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you a short overview with my life, you know, what
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I thought was the worst thing in my life turned
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: ought to be the best thing in my life, because,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: like I said, I was really down about not having
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a mother in my home and my mother not being there,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and I could understand why she left us and why
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: she didn't want to be with us, and so for me,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: it was like very down and stuff. One of my
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: friends told me that when I used to come to
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: her house, I used to go and talk to her
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: mother and she says to say, she said to me,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't know if you came to visit with me,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: or you came to visit with my mother, And I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: think it was because I really wanted a mother. But
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: years later, just to you know, fast forward years later,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I became a social worker and I started working with
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  Speaker 1: grandparents raising grandchildren at the New York City Department for
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the Aging. They hired me to run that program and
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: it became a national model. I was asked to speak
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: before people are mayors and commissioners. I was asked to write,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I was asked to go to conference, and I was
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: asked to do things that I never thought I would
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  Speaker 1: do because I was a shy person and that just
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: wasn't my thing, wasn't my goal. So one day I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: was sitting and I was thinking, how did I know
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  Speaker 1: about this? How do I know how to make this
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: program work? And I realized it was because I lived it.
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  Speaker 1: And so my favorite scripture is Rose eight twenty eight,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and we know all things work together for good to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: those that loved the law, and I called according to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: this purpose. And if you ask anybody that knows me,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: they're gonna they can tell you what my favorite scripture is,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: because I say I tell it all the time, but
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I'm saying not to say that writing also helped me
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: to tell the story. And that's why I did the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: children's story because I was really just gonna write poetry,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: because I said it wasn't something I planned to do
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: in life. And then I said, no, I got to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: tell this children's story because there's a child out there
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: who's going to read this story, who needs this story.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: And so I'm disgrateful to all everyone who has supported me,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: who has encouraged me, who has been there for me.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And that's it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I let I have a copy of in
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: my's hands, and my sister or organization called Halos and
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: they do kinder what she called it, kinder kinship where kinship,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: and I let her read and she was like, oh
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: man trees. I was like, yeah, you know their books
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: out here, stuff like that. So and because of her
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: organization in us reading that book, it, what we did
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: was we made them the first recipient of our toy drive.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: And so what we did is we, you know, at
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: my library, we did the whole month of October, November,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: December and gathered all these toys and then presented to them.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Because I never knew that existed. My sister worked for
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: all these other organizations because she's very big in social
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: work and when that came around, we were like, oh wow,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: we we didn't know that this was such a big thing.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I think thanks. So first of all, I want to
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: say thank you for that. I'm a grannies girl, but
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: we did have my mom. But I know about that granny.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Oh that granny.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for joining us tonight. But before you leave,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: please tell our viewers how they can follow you on
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: social media. How they can grab a copy of Footprints
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: in the Sand or any of your other books, including
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Grandma's Hands.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Well you can, they can always go to my website.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Plus I'm also I'm also on the author page on
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Amazon dot com. Footprints in the Sand is on Amazon too,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and my website is just listed up there. Yeah, and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: also I'm on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn. Always. I have to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: think about all these different social media yup, and so
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you know, you can reach out to me on any
• 30:04
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• 30:08
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• 30:23
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• 30:27
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• 30:31
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• 30:35
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• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you so much for having me.
• 30:40
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