Not pointing fingers, not accusing each other, not forming opinions of what's being written by each individual. Let's look at something else where we become enclosed in growing from something someone writes or voices, even when you may not totally a ...
Posted Friday, January 2nd 2009 at 9:21AM
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SLOW DOWN...Ahhh...
Keep trying
More prayer
Be optimistic
Think positive
Encourage others
Give Thanks
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Posted Thursday, January 1st 2009 at 10:35AM
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I'm being honest, I DO NOT make New Year's Resolutions. Why? Just so I wont have to say I broke and didn't keep them! I feel guilty when I don't keep promises, even to myself. I strive at setting a goal when it's necessary then I am mostly likely ...
Posted Thursday, January 1st 2009 at 10:19AM
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
FIRST GUITAR DROP!
Written by: Miisrael Shields
Beale Street--MEMPHIS TN
01.01.2009--MIDNIGHT
Thousands of Memphians were downtown on the famous Beale Street last night to ring in the New Year, or should I say drop it in! ...
Posted Thursday, January 1st 2009 at 9:32AM
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Native born Memphian, Benjamin Hooks will speak his last sermon on Sunday, January 04, 2008. After many years of his most rewarding and prodigious career. Mr. Hooks noted that the reason for his retirement was due to illness. He has touched hearts of ...
Posted Tuesday, December 30th 2008 at 12:44PM
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Most of us are looking to approach 2009 with a new change in our whole living conditions. Changes we'll help make will take our total commitment. We will have our new president and a new and fresh outlook for better things. Social, economic, jobs, and better living conditions we may all are ...
Posted Sunday, December 28th 2008 at 10:27AM
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A DRIVE BY THAT SAVED A BOY'S LIFE
Written by Miisrael Shields
December 28, 2008
Saturday morning, December 27, 2008 may have seemed like any other day for one Memphis citizen, except on her driving outing she decided to take a shortcut through ...
Posted Sunday, December 28th 2008 at 9:08AM
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Salutations!
Unless. you are under the pretense of ONLY making money with your book than sharing what you've written in your book; try making a new resolution to give your book away! No you didn't read that incorrectly. It's a sacrifice, but I've ...
Posted Saturday, December 27th 2008 at 1:09PM
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Christmas Day is here and many of us celebrate it in ways and manners. Families have developed traditions they have kept for many years from generation to generation. Allow me to tell you of the tradition remembered from my childhood.
The Christ ...
Posted Thursday, December 25th 2008 at 11:49AM
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MERRY CHRISTMAS:
O' CHRISTMAS TREES:
Written by Miisrael Shields
One of Memphis home town residents goes a little farther with Christmas trees...How? She has one in every room of her house! Mrs. Ann Washington of Memphis loves trees, especi ...
Posted Thursday, December 25th 2008 at 11:24AM
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Please sign this blog card. It's for anyone who want to send well Holiday Wishes. To your family your friends or your love ones. Let's also remember to wish Seasons Greetings to our great sponsors here HBCU CONNECT they have let us post so many bl ...
Posted Tuesday, December 23rd 2008 at 8:02PM
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Many are waiting for the last few seconds to jump in the stores and dash for the sales! Are you one of the many? Even those who are finished may be in that crowd...do you feel the ecomony will keep consumers away? On Dasher, on Dancer! on Shopp ...
Posted Tuesday, December 23rd 2008 at 11:20AM
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12.22.2008--Memphis, Tennessee
HELP FOR HOMELESS STUDENTS:
written by Miisrael Shields
Memphis City School Students who are homeless have been given a much needed helping hand. Students who are living in homeless shelters, or in other displa ...
Posted Monday, December 22nd 2008 at 9:31AM
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I’M SO TIRED OF YOU SHOOTING ME!
I am including all of you to sending a shout out to our communities. Everyday, every hour, and in almost every city of town we are hacked up to our neck with the news stories of robberies, youth murders violent ...
Posted Saturday, December 20th 2008 at 9:34AM
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WINNIESPOETRY PRESENTS:
A LEAF ON THE SNOW
Now I have loved you
flowed from my breath..
I am as a leaf on the snow
The wind will carry me
And
No more crying in brown pupils stain.
I cover you up with snows of virgins.
On a poetic morn.
I ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2008 at 9:55AM
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WINNIESPOETRY PRESENTS:
TURN AROUND THAT I MAY LOVE YOU
Lover, sweet, tender.
Blameless Love.
Calls to me arms that echoes in voices of silent places.
A boomerang whisps away.
Turn around that I may love you.
I will catch Thee.
I AM ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2008 at 9:39AM
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WINNIESPOETRY PRESENTS:
MY CUP RUNNETH OVER
Hearing the drippings from the table...
I listened to the fall onto the floor.
The tablecloth was soaked and could not contain
the rains.
And.. on the floors around the chairs
the wetness became ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2008 at 9:26AM
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WINNIESPOETRY PRESENTS:
WHERE?
When I sought a love among the fields...
where?
I wandered in a garden of songs.
A dove landed on my hands.
I felt it's beating heart
I love it's purity.
When I set it free to fly away...
where?
I longed t ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2008 at 9:16AM
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WINNIESPOETRY PRESENTS:
ON A POETIC MORN
Morn....the day is new and I exhale a mist
of cool air.
I saw the fogs traveling over the short distances.
This is what I saw
On a poetic morn.
The inviting natures of God shown in the
shadows of ...
Posted Friday, December 19th 2008 at 8:54AM
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A LITTLE SOUTHERN NEWS
DECEMBER 19, 2008
ISSUE 15
EVENTS! PERFORMANCES! PEOPLE, AND MILD HUMOR ABOUT MEMPHIS AND THE SOUTH!.
Friday Weekly News Page
Written by: Ms. Winnie Shields also known as MIISRAEL
A SOUTHERN FACT: Little Southern ...
Posted Thursday, December 18th 2008 at 7:46PM
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The news media covered it all over the world. The news reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush. Now, he will face or has faced sentencing for up to at least 2 years for throwing his shoes. The protesters are marching for his release. W ...
Posted Tuesday, December 16th 2008 at 10:15AM
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December 12, 2008
A LITTLE SOUTHERN NEWS
ISSUE 14
EVENTS! PERFORMANCES! PEOPLE, AND MILD HUMOR ABOUT MEMPHIS AND THE SOUTH!.
Friday Weekly News Page
Written by: Ms. Winnie Shields also known as MIISRAEL
A SOUTHERN FACT: Little Southern ...
Posted Thursday, December 11th 2008 at 6:29PM
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Remember, when I told you about that messy corner...I've cleared the corner! Then I opened the door to my closet...Unlike me or like me, you may or may not have three closets of clothing! Or you may have even more than three. With three closets o ...
Posted Wednesday, December 10th 2008 at 10:21AM
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If you've been searching in stores up and down to find that perfect gift to give but haven't quite found it, or if you are wanting to give something much more meaningfu...Why not make a homemade gift? Gifts that give your own special signature is ...
Posted Saturday, December 6th 2008 at 9:21AM
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Poverty...This is definitely a living. So many working well developed persons in this society are living and staying alive in poverty. No matter what fancy name we want to call it or how much we try to escape from it, there will always be someone ...
Posted Thursday, December 4th 2008 at 12:09PM
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