Category: My Daddy
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Flava’s Cowboy Coffee – In Memory of My Daddy
My daddy was a man of the people — all people. When I was born, he was serving as minister of the Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle. Not long after, he and my mom purchased our family home in the Central Area/Capitol Hill neighborhood, where I was raised. I went to predominantly Black schools, and…
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Life|65|The Tools My Daddy Gave Me
The Tools My Daddy Gave Me On August 29, 2016, my Daddy sat beside me and whispered in my ear: “I gave you all the tools you need while I was with you on earth. Now it’s time for you to use them.” Those words have never left me. In that moment, I felt his…

