Larry's Library

Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.

Saturday, February 29, 2020

FRIENDS AND RELATIVES

DADDY sat on the side of his bed pensively thumbing through a thick, rubber-banded, stack of departed friends' and relatives' funera...

RUDIMENTS ELEMENTS

RUDIMENTS, ELEMENTS. Marks. Letters. Numbers. Drawing. Notes. Began someplace. Sometime. Somehow. Someones’ . Connected marks communicate. C...

Friday, February 28, 2020

STILL HERE!

STILL HERE BY GRACE African Americans have made their involuntary home, the United States of America, a superpower by their free slave labor...

Thursday, February 27, 2020

HISTORIC BLACK CHURCH CLOSINGS

Ironically, Brooks Chapel A.M.E. Church in Butler, Bates County, Missouri, also founded in 1871, has closed this year. I formerly pastored t...

AVERAGES AND ESSENCES

AVERAGES & ESSENCES Averages say everything. Averages say nothing. If and when we speak of numbers, items, people, ideas, averages ident...

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

CURIOUS

Curious how the “law of ‘93 and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 were constitutional, binding not only on the State but on each citizen of a S...

SUNDAY SCHOOL

MY SUNDAY SCHOOL I used to teach Sunday School as a boy at St. Matthew C.M. E. Church in Kirkwood, Missouri in the early 1960s, age 12. Bu...

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