SILVER's SAGESS

What then is Life 

- what is it for - 

What is its Great End?
Manifestly, in the light of all knowledge, and according to the
testimony of all men who have lived...

Life is the fullest, most
complete enjoyment of the possibilities of human existence. 

It
is the development and broadening of the feelings and emotions,
through sound and color, line and form.
 ...hence come literature with romance, poetry, and essay;
hence rise Love, Friendship, emulation, and ambition,
and the ever widening realms of thought, 

in increasing circles of ...  

Truth.

~ It is ... 

free enjoyment ... 

paths and emotions  ...
need for expression ... full meaning ...

~ W.E.B. du Bois, from The Revelation of Saint Orgne the Damned,
The Education of Black People)

COREY KNEW

[...Was LOST, but now I'm found!!!]

...was BLIND, but NOW I SEE!!! 

I was lost...searching.
Couldn't anyone tell?  Started out strange..."worked" my way to damaged.  Now, as I ponder the possibility of [still] others [foreign] perspectives, I can't help but wonder, "Did everyone know/think I was crazy/lost/aching?"  For the voices I so long ignored, now re-sound a BOOM too hard to turn from!!!

I was a...ME!!!  This is true.  However, I was a MESS!!!  Organized Confusion is what I called it.  Perhaps, that is what everyone saw/felt.  Perhaps, that is what they were warning me against.   

But how can you warn someone against themselves?

If you knew...why not say something?!  They tried, with tricks, but the guidance I desired...required, they had no idea about.  No one did...until I started studying every Saturday!!!

Corey knew.  He tried to tell me - inviting me in...sharing his home, his words, his world, his truth, his culture, his knowledge, his mother, his Harlem, his Morehouse, his Paris, his Senegal, his Music, His Song.  He saw...he knew that fire and tried to give me guidance to help turn the light on, before it forever be lost.

On THIS DAY...it is the memory, the love, the time, the brotherhood, the spirit, the Laughter and ELEGANCE I celebrate!!!

On THIS DAY I do - as I have done everyday since we first RE-Connected on 8th Street...over Sausage slices -  I ask that you (as the rest of my ANGELS) continue to Guide My Feet...While I RUN THIS RACE!!!

I am DOING WHAT I CAN to honor everything your being in my LIFE afforded me - FREEDOM, LAUGHTER, LOVE, LIGHT...SPIRITUALITY...an OPEN HEART, MIND, and SOUL!

Merci Beaucoupe MON FRERE!!!

[I miss you TERRIBLY...hope to, honor you wonderfully!!!]