Angelia Vernon Menchan

Angelia Vernon Menchan is an author, publisher and public speaker who owns two publishing companies, MAMM Productions and Honorable Menchan Media. Mrs. Menchan is also a Budget Officer and former Job Corps Counselor. To date she has published twenty-three books of her own work, both fiction and non-fiction and more than eighty ebook novellas on amazon.com. You can access her bibliography on www.amazon.com search words: Angelia Vernon Menchan




Contact information:
Website: http://acvermen.blogspot.com
Email: acvermen@yahoo.com
Phone numbers: 904 714 2272 904 303 2679

Friday, April 27, 2007

Grow...n

To grow we have to be open and free…
Open?
Yes open, our hearts and our minds…
Once you have closed either one…
Growth stops…
Once we consider ourselves a grown…
We will never grow again…
This is possibly one of the reasons for the generational divide…
Once we are unable to hear…
The voices of our children…
Realizing that we can learn from them…
Because we are too grown…
We miss out on so many chances…
Mentoring can be a backwards journey…
I have learned so much from the young people in my life…
A woman recently told me that I needed to choose a voice in my writing…
“You can’t use words like androgynous in a sentence and then slang in the next…”
Oh yes I can…
My heart and mind are so open…
That I can speak the Queen’s English and Ebonics, without missing a beat…
What that does is releases me…to know everyone…
To be available to people who are just like me…
Or so not like me…
Free?
Yes Free…
To be me…
And for you to be you…
To speak our minds and hearts…
To accept and embrace differences…
To coexist…
Somewhat…
Peacefully…
So many have tried to still my voice…
Alter my words…
Didn’t happen then…
Won’t happen now…
I am growing…
And will throw…
Water…
Sun…
And fertilizer on my damn self…
If no one else wants to…

acVernon Menchan 04/27/2007