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Stop Donating Your Life-Force to Barking Dogs: The Heavy Stride of Ujima

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Stop Donating Your Life-Force to Barking Dogs: The Heavy Stride of Ujima Every minute you spend typing out an angry paragraph to prove an internet troll, a jealous coworker, or a bitter spectator wrong, you are committing spiritual treason against your own destiny. You claim you want power, sovereignty, and nation-building results, but you move with the nervous reactivity of a stray dog. The moment someone snaps at your heels, you drop your tools, throw your hands up, and start barking right back. Across East and Central Africa, the elders left a proverb that cuts through this modern fragility like a razor: “The barking of a dog does not stop the elephant from walking.” ( Mbwa akibweka haizuii tembo kutembea ). An elephant doesn't hold an emergency meeting because a mangrel is yapping at its ankles. It doesn't break its stride. It moves with deliberate mass and ancient memory because it has an entire migration to lead, a calf to protect, and deep water to find. Barking is the ...

Persistence


I will not give up/
no matter how many times/
I may hit the ground/

For those that have been following the journey you know that i have been taking my son to the skating rink. He wanted to learn how to skate. The first time he went he continuously fell, but with encouragement he continued to challenge himself. I did a blog on that experience because he motivated me in my pursuits with his focus and fearlessness in confronting the things that came with falling. this helped me bring many of the things that seemed to plague me on my journey. It was not the falling that I feared it was the embarrassment of the the fall that bothered me. My son taught me through his experience to focus on my feed back rather than others personal views about what I was doing. Like skating life is a process of controlled falling. You are eventually going to hit the floor, but the more you practice the longer you can stay up and keep moving. Sometimes you can become so good that you can determine where the fall will happen so that you can get up dust yourself off and hit the rink floor again. So I hope that my sons little odyssey can motivate you by seeing the progress that he has made between the age of 5 and 6. Although life and other involved in it may try to dampen your dreams continue on your path and you will make it . Be persistence like little Cleve and you to will be skating through your journey like he was at the skating rink.











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