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my own wisdom tale #2

JAN 5 2024 the cuse

big ocean blues AI word by rdoc

im so proud of mmyself

so got this idea to do a wisdom tale for each
of my 52 segments in the hoodoo way
mmost of then retellings of tales from
global repertoirebut i really really want
to do my own in an attempt to found an
afrospiritual wisdom tale tradition

so was working on aug 23, service
and was trying to think of one of the
many wisdom tales of the workd i could
twist into an afroamm in the manner of
thw sufi tales built aound historical wise
folk and long story short i been frustrated
but this morning i twisted a memory
into a wisdom tale usinng two of mi

historical colleagues, louise merriwether
and bj ashanti, i am so proud of mmyself

this is the story for the Service segment
where i advocate for a Life of Service

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me and the great poet bj ashanti was once walking down
harlem's 125th street with queen mother merrweather when
we passed a nasty drunk sprawled on the sidewalk halfass
in the street, we stepped around him as did all the other
pedestrians when the queen mother chastise us severely,
how you gon call yourselves of the elect when you
capable of leaving a fellow human lying in the gutter

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me figuring out i can use actual memories and
other folks wisdom moments is a big deal
and it facilitates me mythworking mi colleagues

life is good, god
i love the arena

 

the hoodoo way: jan1: invocation

midnight on beale: AI word by rdoc

THE HOODOO WAY: JAN1:  invocation

I am doing a Work, The Hoodoo Way: Pilgrimage and Transformation.
Gon be meditations on the hoodoo way. I call it mi Codex. It was originally a
Hoodoo Almanac but I didn’t like the Product. Decided I would let this Text
be the one where I would let my freak flag fly. Ima speculate all over the
page on this one. I would also like in this work to explore the concept of
being a Contemporary Tribal Healer. The High Hoodoo of Memphis.
Forge a Text that is in itself a Healing. This Text will also serve as a
meditation on Wisdom. It embarrasses me how much I want to be Wise.
This comes in part from mi griotic pursuits. One of my goals as a griot /
storyteller is to found a Wisdom Tales tradition in Afrospiritual Literature.
Accordingly, this aspires to be a Wisdom Text. I want to make the pursuit of
wisdom an integral component of the Hoodoo Way - and African American culture.

So. Let this work of Tribal Healing be an Ancestral Offering, a 52 beat weekly
structure representing a Year / Life as Pilgrimage. Plan is to drop a weekly
excerpt on social media. Promotion. Feedback. Working the Board. So, let us
begin. A Pilgrimage Year. Eh. Let us stumble thru. The Hoodoo Way:

in the beginning god created humanity
when humanity got too proud god created death
when death got too proud god created art