Legend is a powerful teaching tool and cultural exemplar, whose trellis young minds may cling to and climb.
In my old neighborhoods, our legends were great athletes from our hood, and from well beyond, since athletic supremacy was our youthful ideal.
But, as we matured into manhood, after reality had degraded exalted sports ambitions, and humbled youthful legends, we had to move on!
So, it is in life.
"When I was a child, I spoke as I child, I thought as a child, I understood as I child; but, when I became a man, I set my childish things aside." 1 Cor. 13:11
Monday, September 29, 2014
TRELLIS AND VINE
CHILDHOOD LEGENDS AND MANHOOD REALITIES
Legend is a powerful teaching tool and cultural exemplar, whose trellis young minds may cling to and climb.
In my old neighborhoods, our legends were great athletes from our hood, and from well beyond, since athletic supremacy was our youthful ideal.
But, as we matured into manhood, after reality had degraded exalted sports ambitions, and humbled youthful legends, we had to move on!
So, it is in life.
"When I was a child, I spoke as I child, I thought as a child, I understood as I child; but, when I became a man, I set my childish things aside." 1 Cor. 13:11
Legend is a powerful teaching tool and cultural exemplar, whose trellis young minds may cling to and climb.
In my old neighborhoods, our legends were great athletes from our hood, and from well beyond, since athletic supremacy was our youthful ideal.
But, as we matured into manhood, after reality had degraded exalted sports ambitions, and humbled youthful legends, we had to move on!
So, it is in life.
"When I was a child, I spoke as I child, I thought as a child, I understood as I child; but, when I became a man, I set my childish things aside." 1 Cor. 13:11