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Drop the Weight of the World

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  Drop the Weight of the World https://www.spreaker.com/episode/drop-the-weight-of-the-world--71015334 You think you're helping your community, but what if you're actually holding it back? We throw around the word "Ujima"—Collective Work and Responsibility—but most of us are practicing it backwards. We’ve been conditioned to believe that being a good friend, a good family member, or a pillar of the community means sacrificing our own peace to carry everyone else’s chaos. Are you playing the savior in a situation where the other person doesn't even want to be saved? Are you gripping so tightly to the idea of "family loyalty" that you're suffocating your own joy? There is a massive difference between building together and bleeding out together. If your version of community work leaves you drained, bitter, and exhausted, you aren't practicing Ujima. You're just repeating a cycle. Call to Inaction A hand clutched tight around poison cannot accept...
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The Gina Gee Project- "Let's Make Some Popsicles"

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Peace FAM: The young ladies are at it again this time trying to demonstrate how to create popsicles. They are still learning how to place the camera so that the audience can get a better view, but they are making progress. The most important thing for me is that they have fun, and continue to pull on their creativity. We had quite an experience with letting Gina, and Shasha pick out the juice for the shoot. After going through about 5 different choices we finally decided on the flavors that you see in the video. Shasha & Gina would like to thank their grandmother for coming up with the idea as well as providing the prop. Shots out to the adults that are supporting these young ladies dreams. I thank you a thousand times. Now the question that I am wrestling with is how to get the video in front of children eyes. if you have any ideas leave them in the comments. The Gye-Nyame Journey channel will be focused on developing the family entertainment portion. From this channel we will...
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The Gina Gee Project "Cream Of Wheat"

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The Gina Gee project is a show that my daughter created. She saw me making video, and been watching YouTube​ and decided to do her own thing. For the last year she and her sister Ms. Shasha have been recording video using up all of my storage space, and figured that it was time to support her. Her first video is about making Cream of wheat. She in a dramatic fashion microwave her breakfast and teaches the viewer. I believe that when our children show interest and dedication to something we should support them. This might be a phase, but I am trying to use it as what our ancestors call a "lure to Mastery". I believe that our children need to be taught skills and in this video project she will learn, acting, interviewing, editing, and story structure and story telling. All these are transferable skills that can be used in pursuit of her life's purpose. Of course she will get a write-up from me on our site,  at least until she ( hopefully) starts writing her own accompa...
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