Honoring our Mother’s on Mother’s Day!

 

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”

– Maya Angelo

Show Notes

1. Introduction

   • Happy Mother’s Day from co-hosts and their youngest kids.

   • Co-host Cyslie tells us about her mom and her grandmother who live in Kentucky.

2. Skype interview clips are heard with co-host Vanessa’s mom in Ohio.

   • Verna (mom) was born in Arkansas but raised in Memphis Tennessee.

   • She has 7 siblings but was raised by her grandmother Mimi.

   • Parents and grandparents occupation which included cotton picking, homemaker and employed by a Doctor.

   • She became ill at the age of 8 years old.

   • She tells us about her life at a boarding school in Nashville.

   • Her view on racism being visually impaired.

   • Her granddaughter, Sharmell asks the last question “What advice would you give a 30-year-old like me about life?”

   • Her answer is to keep God first in your life.