My cup has always been running over. Let me share you some things my maternal grandmother, Mamie Louise Storm, taught me. She made me this way.
My Nana was born in Trenton LA in 1892, on the banks of the Ouachita River, before the levy was built and before it became West Monroe. Another world from than the one I was born into: Jamaica New York, 1943.
I spent the first four years of my life in Nana’s beauty salon in Jamaica New York, where my mother worked while my father fought WWII in Europe.
Nana was smart and wise. She was orphaned at the age of three and had only a formal education to third grade. She never stopped taking classes, reading, studying and teaching me. I feel as if I have been following her all my life although she has been gone since 1980.
These worlds, the 1890’s of the south and 1940’s of New York no longer exists and it is getting difficult to follow their traces. Nana’s words did not sink in easily. Thankfully she repeated them often enough so they don’t disappear, no matter what else I am forgetting. I want to share some with you
1. Thoughts become things.
2. You are only hurting yourself when you act this way.
3. Let it go! Let it run off your mind like water off a ducks back.
4. You can only hurt yourself when you try to hurt others.
5. It is all in your mind. and you can change your mind.
6. There is no such thing as ain’t. It isn’t even in the dictionary.
7. You can do anything you put your mind too.
8. You create the world you live in and you can change it.
9. You brought this on yourself. Can you see how?
10. It’s all in your mind and that doesn’t make it real.
— Julian
My Nana was born in Trenton LA in 1892, on the banks of the Ouachita River, before the levy was built and before it became West Monroe. Another world from than the one I was born into: Jamaica New York, 1943.
I spent the first four years of my life in Nana’s beauty salon in Jamaica New York, where my mother worked while my father fought WWII in Europe.
Nana was smart and wise. She was orphaned at the age of three and had only a formal education to third grade. She never stopped taking classes, reading, studying and teaching me. I feel as if I have been following her all my life although she has been gone since 1980.
These worlds, the 1890’s of the south and 1940’s of New York no longer exists and it is getting difficult to follow their traces. Nana’s words did not sink in easily. Thankfully she repeated them often enough so they don’t disappear, no matter what else I am forgetting. I want to share some with you
1. Thoughts become things.
2. You are only hurting yourself when you act this way.
3. Let it go! Let it run off your mind like water off a ducks back.
4. You can only hurt yourself when you try to hurt others.
5. It is all in your mind. and you can change your mind.
6. There is no such thing as ain’t. It isn’t even in the dictionary.
7. You can do anything you put your mind too.
8. You create the world you live in and you can change it.
9. You brought this on yourself. Can you see how?
10. It’s all in your mind and that doesn’t make it real.
— Julian
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