{"id":7399,"date":"2014-10-20T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2014-10-24T12:53:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:53:17","slug":"eye-want-care-again-wisdom-cooks-and-24-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/eye-want-care-again-wisdom-cooks-and-24-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Want!, Care Again!!!, Wisdom Cooks, and 24-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eye Want!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Do you know it\u2019s in my nature to want, want people, places and things, not being fully satisfied but just always in want? Why am \u201ceye\u201d like this? Wanting just to be wanting, never ever really needing, just wanting?<\/p>\n

\u201cEye\u201d want my woman to love me, spoil me, cook for me, pamper me just want her to do something for me! Look at me, being as selfish as \u201ceye\u201d can be. When will my desire to want set me free? Is it that \u201ceye\u201d am just like other wanters in search of wanting and never really needing? Why is the desire to want so strong in me? Why must my wants always be about me! Me! Me! How did \u201ceye\u201d get to be in such a wanting state, damn! Please, Please, Please somebody stop this pain for \u201ceye\u201d see that my want is all in vain!<\/p>\n

Why must you hunt me, want? What do you want? Is it to seek, kill and destroy? This is not who \u201ceye\u201d was created to be, a wanting soul of life wanting nothing but to please me! Vanity \u201ceye\u201d say! \u201cEye\u201d see this thing called want is driving you away from me!<\/p>\n

So as \u201ceye\u201d begin to grow old and gray, want continues to pursue me ever so gallantly wanting me to want more. \u201cEye\u201d find myself in its grips, wanting my very strength, my last wanting breath. Who will help? Nobody!<\/p>\n

For they are fighting their wants as \u201ceye\u201d am.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute, that\u2019s it, I see it now; since the day of my existence, want has been trying to destroy me. So as I slow down and take a minute to breathe it comes to me so clear. What my soul desires me to want is to not want at all! My soul desires me to want The One who wants me to be complete, happy and whole, so thank you Creator of the Universe and I say good-bye to want but hello to love for to love is far better than to want. Thank you, Creator, for wanting me to accept your love to want to love you! It\u2019s through this love that all the desires of my heart have been given and made possible. Now I\u2019m able to give, not as a wanter gives, but as a new lover gives. Good bye \u201cwant!\u201d It\u2019s over!<\/p>\n

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Care Again!!!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When was it when we stop caring? Was it when we learned to make a phone call by voice dialing, or swiping a card to get on public transportation.<\/p>\n

When was it when we stop caring? Was it when two household incomes became one, or was it when kids was going to prison for killing their parents. What about when children are having children.<\/p>\n

When was it when we stop caring? Was it when the Government\u2019s tax cuts pushed the middle class into the lower class?<\/p>\n

When was it when we stop caring? Was it when the drug epidemic took over and destroyed our communities? How about when Aids took the lives of our mother\u2019s, father\u2019s movie stars heroes, sports and music icons, sons and daughters.<\/p>\n

When was it when we stop caring? Was it when two planes crashed into our towers taking some 3000 plus lives or was it when a lone gunman shot up a school, let\u2019s not forget those wonderful politicians who always looking to lined their pockets with funds for the poor!<\/p>\n

When was it when we stop caring? Was it when we started wearing clothes that left nothing to the imagination?<\/p>\n

When was it when we stop caring? Was it when we turned down getting a good education to become a street level pharmacist?<\/p>\n

When was it when we stop caring? Was it when we continue killing young blacks for wearing a hoodie?<\/p>\n

What will it take for us to care again? What will it take to offer up our seat on the bus to another more tired than us, or say a nice word to some one of a different culture or nationality? What will it take for us to put an end to gun violence, and stiffer controls on gun making bullies? Just what will for us to make a change to begin caring again? I started mine today!<\/p>\n

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Wisdom Cooks<\/h3>\n

The Appetizer:
\nGrandma and I are in our safe haven, the kitchen. I am in m my automatic pupil\u2019s mode and as she opens the cabinet, out come the meal for the day. She goes right to work slicing and dicing the onions, hot peppers, tomatoes, etc\u2026 with a smidgen of this and a dash of that, the meat tenderizer makes its way out, setting off grandma\u2019s verbal artillery of wisdom. Delectably creating some of the best appetizers since Confucius spoke his first words. Most of the times, her appetizers would be very spicy and tasty.<\/p>\n

The meal:
\nNow, with a stimulated palate, from the appetizers, I am ready for the main course. As the table is set, I sit down and my eyes illuminate at the fine feast before me. During this great meal, it feels as if the countries surgeon general is dining along with Zeus and the many other great imminences of \u2028Africa and Egypt. Wow\u2026! I am the luckiest kid in the world to be savoring such a rich and hearty meal. Even king Solomon himself would agree.<\/p>\n

The Desert:
\nFeeling full, content and satisfied, what would bring this meal to a perfect end but some apple cobbler topped with butter pecan ice cream? Thank you grandma, once again, you have outdone yourself. I promise to pass along these great meals to any and all who wish to partake in these delights for they have been a great blessing during my life\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n

The Breath Mint:
\n\u201cKnowledge is not the end goal. What really matters is what we do with what we know.\u201d By Mark Batterson.<\/p>\n

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24\/6<\/h3>\n

24\/6 is how long it took me to enjoy and appreciate the small beautiful things in life<\/p>\n

24\/6 is how long it took for me to grow into the man you see before you<\/span><\/p>\n

24\/6 is how long it took for me to enjoy holidays like <\/span>Thanksgiving<\/span>, Christmas and <\/span>New Year<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s<\/span><\/p>\n

24\/6 is how long it took me to fully understand the importance of obtaining an education<\/span><\/p>\n

24\/6 is how long God has been has been protecting and guarding me along this journey<\/span><\/p>\n

24\/6 is how long it<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s taken me to begin to live my life<\/span><\/p>\n

24\/6 has cost me a wife and my child<\/span><\/p>\n

24\/6 has been joy, pain, fear, worry and manhood<\/span><\/p>\n

Though 24\/6 is still a bit<\/span>\u00a0of a mystery to you! But it<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s an ever present reality for me!<\/span><\/p>\n

24\/6 could very well be a part of what many of you could be living today, what is your 24\/6? That has hindered you from maximizing your fullest potential. When you find it out what will you do about it? Will you stand up to it as the boy David did and overcame the giant? Or will you allow the 24\/6 to consume you thus destroying your very existence? I don<\/span>\u2019<\/span>t know about you, but as for my 24\/6 I<\/span>\u2019<\/span>m happy to confess that it<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s all a part of my past long behind me<\/span>,<\/span> and to quench your quizzical curiosity as to what is <\/span>my<\/span>\u00a024\/6 fret no more f<\/span>or my 24\/6\u00a0 was the time I<\/span>\u2019<\/span>ve spent in prison!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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—<\/p>\n

Alfred Brown Jr., born in the Washington Heights\u2019 section of Harlem, New York on February 25, 1964 to Alfred and Elizabeth Brown. He\u2019s the second oldest of five siblings. He attended P.S. 28, I.S 195 and Julia Richmond High School where he graduated in 1982. He went on to win a four year music scholarship from Long Island University in the same year of graduation. A year later (1983), unfortunately, he found himself on the wrong side of the law and was sent off to prison. Having completed his full prison term, he enrolled in Westchester Community College in September of 2012, where he is presently and in his last semester. His\u00a0degree of study is in Social Sciences and Chemical Dependency.\u00a0 When he finishes his\u00a0course of study and obtains his\u00a0degree, he hopes to one day be presented with the opportunity to make a difference by being a drug counselor. He also hopes to one day pursue a career in writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know it\u2019s in my nature to want, want people, places and things, not being fully satisfied but just always in want? Why am \u201ceye\u201d like this? Wanting just to be wanting, never ever really needing, just wanting?<\/p>\n

\u201cEye\u201d want my woman to love me, spoil me, cook for me, pamper me just want her to do something for me! Look at me, being as selfish as \u201ceye\u201d can be. When will my desire to want set me free? Is it that \u201ceye\u201d am just like other wanters in search of wanting and never really needing? <\/p>\n

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