Nakia R. Laushaul's Blog, page 6
October 9, 2009
What's your default setting?
We are more like computers than we realize. Think about the day you brought your brand new cutting edge computer home. Oh, how you eagerly ripped open the cardboard, popped a couple bubbles of the bubble wrap, and finally the Hachi Tachi 3000, in your trembling hands! What a beauty. Clean with no scratches or blemishes to be found from the top to the bottom. I can just see you now, plugging it
September 22, 2009
The Trials of Raising a Man: Pt III
Excuse me.. Mine is missing the manualHow hard could this be? I asked myself as I looked at the beautiful baby snuggled in my arms. Just a few moments before he was taken from right underneath my heart and placed in my hands. In my care. Already, I loved him. Already I wanted the best for him. Raising J was gonna be a piece of cake. ✓ Clothes on his back ✓ Feed him ✓ Send him to school and at 18
August 18, 2009
The Trials of Raising a Man: Pt II, The Lost Village
Lost Village The village is being pillaged.We laugh from sanctified perches.Generations march idly byLost.Robbed in hindsight. The village is now empty.I remember being about 13 yrs old with the audacity to cross my legs in church. I paid no attention to the fact that my skirt rose up over my knees. I was young and maybe I didn't care. But, She did. A mother, of the church walked towards me with
