Thank You Brother Keita ... you're a Sweet Heart ... I couldn't have grown to this place without this community ... without each and every one of you that challenges my thinking, resolve, tolerance, patience, presentation, and a host of other things that i don't know the word for! I am honored, and continually encouraged, for if this community could do this for me ... it can do it for us all! Love You! Destee
I'm a man....in reality I'm a "degenerate woman" for those who understand what I'm saying. I am generally a linear thinker because I am a man. I had to be trained by WOMEN to be a wholistic thinker, to use the right side of my brain...something that WOMEN NATURALLY DO. The Sisters that I am close to are my teachers in many ways even if they don't know it. I need not go any further. So IT IS THAT THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND and as such was confused by my response. HTP!!!
With all due respect, if it is women that are your teachers ... and i am in that number ... it is you that fails to understand. This community provides a great platform for all of us to sharpen ourselves ... men and women alike. I have been telling you this for years. There is nothing like being challenged by the intelligence of another, but we must first count what they are saying as having some intelligence in it, giving them credit for where they are, and their ability to sharpen us ... even if they are not as advanced as we think ourselves to be. There is a great wealth of opportunity, knowledge, and wisdom in being able to come down from the heights we think we've reached, to lift another, with love, patience, and kindness ... and while down there, learn some lessons we might have missed the first time through. The teacher must never stop being the student, recognizing that every interaction can be a learning moment. Sometimes it's hard to find, but it's there ... just gotta be willing to humble ourselves and look for it. This community provides opportunities like this, every single day! Love You! Destee