"Where I'm From" Digital Story

Where I'm From

I am from the shores of Goree Island near the Gambia

I am from the shores of the North Atlantic

I am from the grasslands of North America

I am from the intersection of Huntsville Missouri and Birmingham Alabama

Logan and Gwendolyn

Settling down in the small town

Kewanee in Illinois

with five children Cathy, Logan, Twyla, Lisa, and Janelle

surrounded by Uncle Duke, Aunt Nell, Tee, Uncle Dan, Uncle C, Aunt Hattie Lou, Uncle Willie and Aunt Gladys, Cuz and cousins by the dozens

I am from "Clem don't Play" in days when not playing could lead to your demise

I am from "stand for something or fall for anything" "know your history" "let me break it down for you" "BOOM" and "the best is yet to come" " you can be whatever you want to be" "Black is Beautiful" "Young ladies don't..." and "still I rise"

I am from Sunday school, morning service, Saturday choir and usher board rehearsal at Second Baptist

Receiving guidance from Miss Onetta, Miss Corrine, and Mrs. Thorpe "Praise GOD from whom all blessing flow"

I am from community service and volunteering

I am from Lyle, Central, KHS, and ISU

the Rangers, the Knights, the Boilermakers, the Red Birds

I am from loving Science; a super nerd;

Speaking French and Russian "polyglot" is the word

I am from Zoom, Julia, Captain Kangaroo, Jack LaLanne, Fat Albert and Scooby Doo, Looney Toons, Ray Rayner, Frazier Thomas' Family Classics, Perry Mason, Andy Griffith, Good Times, and Quincy,

I am from Motown: Stevie, the Jackson Five, the Temps, the Tops, and the Supremes, to the P-Funk, George Clinton and Bootsy, George Duke, Evelyn King, Aretha-The Queen of Soul, the King of Soul-James Brown, The Elements: Earth Wind and Fire, and the Sugar Hill Gang, Disco and House, but I've been known to crank Miss You by the Stones, Benny and the Jets, and Roll with the Changes by REO

I am from the beginning of the Greek Alphabet, but God had plan; the love of my life is an Omega man

We were blessed with an Alpha/Omega Daughter

I am from a legacy of joy, tears, love of life, unity, and hope

Where I from made me who I am

Lisa L London

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