Yes, I did a TEDxTalk and I wanted to share it with you. Making this list I realized some of you I have talked recently, some it’s been years, some maybe briefly but it just made me think how much I like and need connection. I wish I could have a get together where we all could meet and form a tribe. Maybe that will be a project in the future.

The idea in the TEDx is very personal and has become a mission of life for me. I hope some of you find it helpful for yourselves or people close to you. Watch and click a like if you do like it. And share with anyone, men or women, who you think may benefit from it.
Sending you LOVE and BALANCE! Nana, the LIFE EXPLORER

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Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century

By Lorene Cary

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

www.lorenecary.com

“Radiant.” ―O, The Oprah Magazine

From cherished memories of childhood weekends with Nana to the reality of the year she spent “ladysitting,” Lorene Cary journeys through stories of their time together and five generations of their African American family. Weaving a narrative of her complicated relationship with Nana―a fiercely independent and often stubborn woman whose family fled the Jim Crow South and who managed her own business until 100―Cary captures the ruptures, love, and forgiveness that can occur in the family as she bears witness to her grandmother’s vibrant life.

“Ladysitting is boldly literate and a brilliant work of art.… A lyrical odyssey of the multiply-descended and cross-generational heritage of black diaspora in a strange and.”

– Houston Baker, Distinguished University Professor, Vanderbilt University

“A thoroughly engaging memoir.… Cary invites readers into a complex extended family.… A distinctly American story.”

– Martha Anne Toll, NPR

“A dive into Cary’s own history.… What resonates loudest in Ladysitting, however, is the love that Cary gives back to her grandmother.”

– Dan Marshall, New York Times Book Review

“Rain dances nourishment from the soil.Tears waltz love from the heart Sun dances a boogie-woogie while Lorene Cary is Ladysittingwith her Grandmother

Question: Who brings the beer?”

– Nikki Giovanni

“Cary’s chronicle of this centenarian (+1) is written with candor, warmth, and love. The final chapters are critical reading for anyone with an aging loved one at the end of their life.”

– Betsy Lerner, author of The Bridge Ladies

“[Cary] movingly portrays what it’s like to care for a loved one.”

– Elizabeth Sile, Real Simple

“Open the cover of Ladysitting, and you’re immediately yanked into a story with an ending you already know.… One of the more deftly-written, truthful accounts in this genre.”

– Terri Schlichenmeyer, Washington Informer

“A heartfelt, multifaceted story.… This reflective memoir steeped in love and forgiveness explores a devoted granddaughter’s perceptions about her grandmother.”

– Shelf Awareness

“With admiration, triumph, and love, Cary captures the universal experience of close family loss.”

– Booklist

“A candid, sensitive memoir.… Thoughtful reflections on pain, love, and family.”

– Kirkus Reviews

Lorene Cary is author of the memoirs Ladysitting and Black Ice, three novels, and a book for young readers. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and has written a one-act opera of Ladysitting and a play, My General Tubman. She lives in Philadelphia.

Paperback: 272 pages

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (June 23, 2020)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0393358232

ISBN-13: 978-0393358230

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AARON DAVIS HALL – CITY COLLEGE

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017
SHOWTIME: 7 P.M.

“Truth To Power” is a declaration of our Blackness. It is also a declaration of our humanity. Through music, spoken word and song, a dynamic cultural experience will be presented on April 28th at Aaron Davis Hall on the campus of City College at 7PM at Convent Ave and 138th Street in Harlem, NY The evening will include musicians Onaje Allan Gumbs,V. Jeffrey Smith, Marcus Mclaurine, Vince Ector and Gary Fritz; vocalists, Mem Nahadr and Tulivu- Donna Cumberbatch;poets Whitney Asoul Pulliam and Luquan Graham(Luquantumleap Lab). Luquan incidentally who be performing a poem written especially for the evening by Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets entitled “Truth To Power”. Poet, author, vocalist and activist Ms Nana Camille Yarbrough will also be there to bring her incomparable talent to the evening. The first ever Bob Cranshaw Community Achievement Award will be presented to Onaje Allan Gumbs by the Jazz Foundation of America that night. It will truly be an unforgettable evening of celebration through music, poetry and song. Not to be missed.

Ticket info: http://citycollegecenterforthearts.org/tickets/

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