I'm forever grateful for the Elders in the communities I have lived in all my life. Grateful for all the wisdom seeds they planted in me. Without them I'm pretty sure I would have died long time ago. Starting with my parents and older siblings. I'm talking they were dying at well over a hundred years. The knowledge they all gave me was history. True history that was priceless. The best wisdom I ever was given. That's how I know books were full of lies. However, we were forced to be educated by the enemy even though our schools were segregated. Today I learned once again how to be thankful for them. Especially now that I'm considered one. Like myself I asked for the wisdom and glad for it.