Listen or read now | Remembering an important Black role model whose legacy may provide a lens for seeing the present moment and ourselves more clearly
So very touching and well written/spoken by you. I look forward to listening to more podcasts. It's just wonderful hearing you again. You have a very healing quality about you in person and through your fiction and essays.
I want to hear more, a whole essay, on the all-Black Boy Scout troop!! I will buy 10 cups of coffee for that. I’m not kidding. That would be a treasure as is your little recollection of you and Sidney here tonight. You can’t make a mountain out of a mole hill when the Hill is already a mountain!! Double exclamation.
You’re really kind! Thanks so much for that encouraging response. I’ll have to conjure up those scouting days before I run out of coffee beans. Much appreciated!
So very touching and well written/spoken by you. I look forward to listening to more podcasts. It's just wonderful hearing you again. You have a very healing quality about you in person and through your fiction and essays.
Thanks so much for your kindness and encouragement! So glad you enjoyed the post. Really delighted to have you on board. Best wishes to you always!
Brilliant!
Thanks so much!
Very good indeed. Thank you for writing, Andrew.
And thank you for reading, Alison. Much appreciated!
I want to hear more, a whole essay, on the all-Black Boy Scout troop!! I will buy 10 cups of coffee for that. I’m not kidding. That would be a treasure as is your little recollection of you and Sidney here tonight. You can’t make a mountain out of a mole hill when the Hill is already a mountain!! Double exclamation.
You’re really kind! Thanks so much for that encouraging response. I’ll have to conjure up those scouting days before I run out of coffee beans. Much appreciated!
A lovely tribute for a lovely man, Andrew. Yes, there are worse role models. RIP Sidney Poitier
Thanks so much for reading it. Glad you liked it. I will always be grateful for what he gave us in his films.
What an eloquent eulogy, for a man so richly deserving. In our age of ever burgeoning rudeness, he was one of a few bright lights.
Thanks so much. Yes, he stands in stark contrast to the present moment, a shining star—and as you say so well, a bright light.