Tuesday, April 20, 2010

MOTHER'S & SONS


“The feline creatures of legend and fact share inner space with women who connect with the play between light rain, sun energies, and the spirit of those moments vulnerable to discoveries between the worlds they walk as mothers, lovers, the child, and the wild woman's songs heard in their eyes. What a thing to behold in the face of a beautiful woman. What lessons to be taught to a young man who doesn’t know the difference between lust and love, and cannot understand the terrain, the geography of the actions of his words about women.

A number of young men, sent to me by Spirit, have great difficulty grasping simple concepts beyond the vernacular of the streets. Yesterday, I intervened between a young black boy degrading a girl in my group. I won’t get into long discussions with young cats about this. They get enough lectures from school teachers, and public service announcements. I simply said, “Everything you do as a boy, or as a man to a woman, a girl some kind of a way comes back to your mother.”

Typically, boys recoil but the truth penetrates.” –Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

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