Reach - Then Teach
"Reach - Then Teach" offers host Derrick Brown's wisdom earned through life lessons learned about mentoring, mediation, and problem solving. The show uses "standup storytelling" (commentary, teaching, spoken word (poetry), rap, and song) to deliver compelling, thematic, personal narratives about love, change, equality, power, (self-)control, and purpose. Popular segments include "Dear Hannah (Letters To My Daughter)", "Fight The Good Fight", "LEarning", and "The BIG Picture." Visit reachthenteach.com to join our mailing list and sponsor our work!
Episodes
Dear Hannah,
Sometimes things happen that upset us. We have to feel what we feel, take the time to heal, remember what is real, and keep moving forward ...
As I lay me down to sleep
I kiss my wife and ponder deep
I wonder why, and that's OK
Answers tomorrow are questions today
Then I kneel and start to pray
Ask the Lord to have His way
Stay focused on a future day
Hope to keep all harm at bay
So my baby girl can play
Jump on me, yell "Daddy, ...
Dear Hannah,
My life is but an instrument
Singing songs in many keys
Wisdom earned through lessons learned
From mistakes of several degrees
Do not mistake activity for achievement
Arriving on time means you're late
To be on time arrive early
Fall seven times - get up eight
One time is an accident
Two times is a trend
Three times might be a problem
But forgiveness is your friend
The race is not to the swift
But to the ones who maintain
So stay ali...
Dear Hannah,
You can make a whole new song - that speaks to our present-day plight - out of song & movie titles from albums & CDs that you have "sitting in the crates".
Let's give it a try ...
Love,
Daddy
(Author of "A Long Walk … Towards Care, Concern, Respect, and Advocacy")
Dear Hannah,
my joy comes from
understanding why i was born
and what i need
to do before i die
and that even when
things are shaky
and folk are real "fakey"
i know who my
folk are
listen ...
Love,
Daddy
(Author of "A Long Walk … Towards Care, Concern, Respect, and Advocacy")
Dear Hannah,
I love your mother (Keisha).
For our 10th anniversary, I told the world.
Love,
Daddy
(Author of "A Long Walk … Towards Care, Concern, Respect, and Advocacy")
Dear Hannah,
we can both reach
the finish line
by helping each other
train and pace
to run our own race
but to run it right
we need to both pack light
to push some major freight
and pull our own weight
so hang in there when it
doesn't go your way
hang in there when you have
to say "bye bye" sometimes
to people, places, habits,
and ideas that hinder
more than they help
sometimes you have to
see it through
... and sometimes you have
to see through...
Dear Hannah,
I was assigned a role in this life before I was born ...
... but was then cast (thrown forcefully) into a cast (the actors in a play) according to caste ("social status or position conferred by a system based on class") ...
... hear me now ...
... my "truth" is "living in a daily lie" ...
... but the show must go on ...
Love,
Daddy
(Author of "A Long Walk … Towards Care, Concern, Respect, and Advocacy")
Dear Hannah,
Stick to the Master Plan (#MasterPlan) - even when current events make it feel like the world is out of control.
Love,
Daddy
(Author of "A Long Walk … Towards Care, Concern, Respect, and Advocacy")
Dear Hannah,
The road to reconciliation starts with ...
realization (of both the might and the plight),
respect (both spiritual essence and natural function),
reassurance (of commitment to the corrective plan and path - don't ask for trust ... EARN IT),
and REAL relationship (dealing with each other as EQUALS).
We've got a long way to go ...
... because we keep trying to start at the finish line ...
... and often label voices of reason as ...
Dear Hannah,
Mistakes are great teachers because they grab your undivided attention.
Trees are great teachers, too.
You see all their majesty and might ... and their mistakes.
You see that ... even in their might (right?) ... they can still fall ... timber(!).
Love,
Daddy
(Author of "A Long Walk … Towards Care, Concern, Respect, and Advocacy")
Dear Hannah,
Keep your peace ...
... through doubt and uncertainty
... through headache
... through heartache
Love,
Daddy
(Author of "A Long Walk … Towards Care, Concern, Respect, and Advocacy")
Dear Hannah,
i'm the brother
from another planet
I travel each day
far, far away
... hear what they say ...
... then try to make sense of it ...
... lemme tell you what I
have LEarned ...
i ain't ya ...
Love,
Daddy
(Author of "A Long Walk … Towards Care, Concern, Respect, and Advocacy")
Dear Hannah,
You will live, love, win, lose, and LEarn while you are alive.
You will uplift and dignify.
You will win friends and influence people.
You will also disturb the status quo.
You will speak truth to power.
You will tell your own story.
Not everyone will read it.
Not everyone will believe it.
Not everyone will like it.
They may tell a different version.
What people think of you is none of your business.
Forget what they say.
Love,
Dadd...
Dear Hannah ... If you are wondering ... "What do you DO with all these songs ...?" Thanks for asking. I have a catalog of 45 of these #Autoethnographies (self-reflective "studies") that anchor a yearlong (two-semester) course I developed called #TheSeeSayShow. Sharing them lets me see which ones "slap" (resonate with unprompted, diverse audiences). #TheSeeSayShow is my holistic response to what I see in my high school classroom ev...
Dear Hannah, Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation where someone makes another person doubt their own judgment, perception, or sanity. It is heinous (wicked), pernicious (harmful), prevalent, and *effective*. How do you combat something so powerful? How do you resist (refuse to accept or comply ... not be affected)? I can "see" the lies when I believe and respect the truth. I can "say" what accepts the lie, affirms th...
In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral hist...
In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral hist...
In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral hist...
In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral hist...
In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral hist...
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