Bria Myles
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| A photographer captured Bria Myles posing apparently on the streets of Los Angeles, California saying as a caption, "Westside, 'til I die!" Increasingly, young people are declaring allegiance to their corners in their little neighborhoods in cities across the nation. With ever increasing fury is the conviction that education, and any capacity to learn is not hip. More desirable is the inner world reflected by action that is indifferent to growth, and the larger society. I understand how fear works to multiple itself within the weakened and the depressed, but in contrast I know how strong and indomitable the human spirit is. It is the numbers of young Black people satisfied with being at the low rungs of a society that has freed up the avenues to attaining dreams, and learning how to function in a system I admit is jacked up. But, the combination of things at work for and against advancement of the soul can be the trajectory out of the quagmire of thinking thoughts not conducive to expansion. I know very well how I ascended and left the darkness that shadowed my life years past. There are so many circumstances to arise from, and measuring and saying one is more difficult than another to overcome is a ridiculous waste of time, and unimportant. What is important is the fight, and the struggle to learn or create the stratagems to get out of the shit one is embroiled within. If the Three Little Pig story somehow absorbed you into the pages and folds of the story physically, and you were living the experience of the pig, the third pig who eventually cooked the wolf would the story have the same outcome? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.27.13 |
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