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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Dear Hannah: Purpose Is More Important Than Ambition (Derrick Brown Performs THE TRILOGY (UCSM, SYG, GRASPP) Live) (1-13-2019)

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

Dear Hannah,

Purpose is more important than ambition.

The ambitious want to "be somebody".

The purposeful want to "help somebody".

Walking in ambition may cause your efforts to be seen, applauded, and even rewarded - but may compromise your ultimate purpose.

Walking in purpose may cause your efforts to go largely unrecognized and underappreciated, but may propel many others forward in their purpose.

The results of your efforts will be well worth it - even if you do not reap direct rewards.

God will bless your efforts and increase you.

Be someone who helps.

Love,

Daddy

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U Can't C Me (Ode To The Invisible)

(First Published November 2012)

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 aligned on your grind

And stay in your own lane

Keep it slow and steady

That's it - nice and smoove

Always do your homework

Believe that God will approve

Every moment matters

You had better realize

Then you can quickly respond

To opportunities that you recognize

Don't despise the small tasks

Pursue them diligently

For passion and purpose are discovered

Through acts of ministry

Keep a pad and paper

And a nearby pen of ink

Write your visions plainly

Make time to pray and think

Don't believe the hype

Avoid the glittery and bejeweled

When we think with our eyes

We are often easily fooled

All money ain't good money

Sometimes less is more

Make a living through your giving

Learn to turn two into four

Your fear is your only courage

Be scared to disobey

Be scared to rock that boat

But sometimes rock it anyway

Know how to keep your quiet

Until it's time to say

If your heart ain't feelin' right

Then say it another day

Freedom of speech

Means come correct

Be quick to listen

Be quicker to respect

Be slow to speak

Even slower to get twisted

Meek ain't weak

Self-control beats double-fisted

The only thing to know

Is that you don't know squat

Nobody cares what you know

If they think you care not

So pick your spot

Practice - don't preach

When the student is ready

The teacher will teach

If faced with a fool

Proverbs 26 - verses 5 and 4

Sometimes you can let it go

Sometimes you gotta let em know

Train your child with loving instruction

Encourage growth, but discourage rambunction

Know you are equal in essence

But very different in function

No good deed goes unrewarded

But the payoff is seldom immediate

Dreams manifest at God's appointed time

Though it tarries, wait for it

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Stand Your Ground (Family Reunion 2018 Remix))

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

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, yay!"
Master piano, dance ballet

Tell her about our wedding day
How to wait for her fiance'
Relationships begin with "hey"
Then take their course - la vie c'est

Do her work for more than pay
Know when to go, and when to stay

Correct her course if she should stray
See that this world is still cray cray

The brave are scared to disobey
But sometimes do it anyway
The fools rush in, the wise survey
Think twice, act once - avoid the fray

Accountable talk never starts with "they"
Power is more than being able to sway

Then I reach "amen" and rise again
Ready to embark, engage and win

Eyes wide shut, but with open heart
The game ain't fair, so play it smart

The road ahead is still paved with LIFE

Despite all circumstance and strife

She can change the world if I maintain
Stay on my grind, and in my lane

Love,

Daddy

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About Derrick Brown (Standup Storyteller)

I am Keisha's husband, and Hannah's father.

I am a “standup storyteller.”

I fuse rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change that I write, direct, and produce to help people who help people.

Everything must change - and stay changED.

Tradition begins and ends with change.

Change begins with me and the renewing of my mind ... then continues through efforts to effect small-group discipleship (equipping others to equip others) with audiences that respect and embrace mentoring, mediation, and problem solving as tools of change.

I am the product of my mentoring relationships, peacemaking (and peacekeeping), and problem-solving ability.

My education began when I finished school.

After school, I enrolled in a lifelong curriculum that includes classes in ministry, entrepreneurship, stewardship, literacy, numeracy, language, self-identity, self-expression, and analysis / synthesis.

My projects execute a ministry that has evolved from wisdom earned through lessons learned.

I want to share this wisdom to build teams of "triple threat" fellows - mentors, mediators, and problem solvers.

We will collaborate in simple, powerful ways that allow us to help people who help people.

I now know that power is work done efficiently (with wise and skillful use of resources, interests, communication, and expertise).

Dear Hannah: GRASPP (Battle Plan)

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

Dear Hannah,

Creating change requires a "real-time" battle plan that can GRASPP, evaluate, and adjust in the middle of a fight.

It also requires a leader who takes ownership of their gifts and time - because when you don't, someone else will.

Love,

Daddy

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"GRASPP" (Battle Plan)
By Derrick Brown
12-25-2016

eyes on the prize
my man

yes keep the
goal in sight

but check your
people too

make sure the
crew's alright

respect the time
and place

the circumstance
and pace

make sure you
give 'em space

to be a
human race

go 'head and
dot the i's

and then go
cross the t's

reveal the
strategies

with simple
summaries

but know that
even then

the unforeseen
can win

patience gets
paper-thin

maintain your
peace within

speak on the
things that matter

skip all the
idle chatter

ignore the
tit-for-tatter

so that your
mind don't scatter

stay fully
focused, man

and then adjust
your plan

'cause you are
greater than

when you
believe you can

you will from
time to time

encounter
hate and spite

so keep it
light and tight

fight the
good fight

might ain't
always right

don't correlate
with height

never resolves
the plight

written in
black and white

'cause we are ...
humble
haughty
naughty
nice

no one's
infallible

act once
think twice

successful
failures

come from
knowing roles

not by controlling
people

but via
self-controls

your gifts make
room 'cause few

can do it
like you do

but you're the
owner, boo

so this is
also true

anybody who
kinda sorta missed the cue

to give full
honor due

had better
get a clue

put 'em
in the queue

teach 'em how
to treat you

they mighta
thought they knew

right church
wrong pew

bottom
line view

note-to-self
new to-do

'ppreciate
the players who

get you "to"
get you through

take your one
give back two

tell 'em more
than "thank you"

take the sole
off your shoe

see how
many steps accrue

build a shelf
with no glue

then await your
breakthrough

no lemon pepper
in the stew

takes away the
flavor - ooh!

I made my point ...
no more ado (commotion)

Love,

Daddy

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Dear Hannah: Teach Students, Not Subjects (Johney)

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

Dear Hannah,

Teach students, not subjects.

You will not know them on your first day together.

You will not know them on your last day together.

Never stop LEarning who they are, and you will never stop LEarning who you are.

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Why oh why can't Johney READ?
Probably because the brother's name is Khalid
Yet the majority of so-called experts agreed
On the cultural ideas they would force-feed

Why oh why can't Johney WRITE?
'Cause instead of him creating he just has to recite
We offer him a perspective that he finds quite trite
Then have the gall to try to label him as "not too bright"

Why oh why can't Johney do MATH?
Might it be that he fails to see the relevance of its path
He'll tell you that he's tried to get it, but that not yet he hath
Its oddities sometimes confuse and ultimately draw his wrath

Why oh why can't Johney LEAD?
'Cause we've instilled in him a false way to succeed
Servitude and loving take back seats to greed
Destiny and purpose are supplanted by need

Why oh why can't Johney CREATE?
Perhaps it's because the boy just can't relate
To the stark & cold reality that continues to await
Solutions to the problems of our existing state

Why oh why can't Johney THINK?
Maybe we've not yet shown him the missing link
Between ideas and paper and that pen of ink
That leads the horse to water, and also helps him drink

Love,

Daddy

Friday, December 5, 2014

Dear Hannah: Stand Your Ground (Remix)

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

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 ...

Despite all circumstance and strife

She can change the world if I maintain
Stay on my grind, and in my lane

Love,

Daddy

Thursday, April 24, 2014

The BIG Picture: U Can't C Me (Ode To The Invisible)

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

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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 aligned on your grind

And stay in your own lane

Keep it slow and steady

That's it - nice and smoove

Always do your homework

Believe that God will approve

Every moment matters

You had better realize

Then you can quickly respond

To opportunities that you recognize

Don't despise the small tasks

Pursue them diligently

For passion and purpose are discovered

Through acts of ministry

Keep a pad and paper

And a nearby pen of ink

Write your visions plainly

Make time to pray and think

Don't believe the hype

Avoid the glittery and bejeweled

When we think with our eyes

We are often easily fooled

All money ain't good money

Sometimes less is more

Make a living through your giving

Learn to turn two into four

Your fear is your only courage

Be scared to disobey

Be scared to rock that boat

But sometimes rock it anyway

Know how to keep your quiet

Until it's time to say

If your heart ain't feelin' right

Then say it another day

Freedom of speech

Means come correct

Be quick to listen

Be quicker to respect

Be slow to speak

Even slower to get twisted

Meek ain't weak

Self-control beats double-fisted

The only thing to know

Is that you don't know squat

Nobody cares what you know

If they think you care not

So pick your spot

Practice - don't preach

When the student is ready

The teacher will teach

If faced with a fool

Proverbs 26 - verses 5 and 4

Sometimes you can let it go

Sometimes you gotta let em know

Train your child with loving instruction

Encourage growth, but discourage rambunction

Know you are equal in essence

But very different in function

No good deed goes unrewarded

But the payoff is seldom immediate

Dreams manifest at God's appointed time

Though it tarries, wait for it

reachthenteach

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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Dear Hannah: Purpose Is More Important Than Ambition (Derrick Brown Performs THE TRILOGY (UCSM, SYG, GRASPP) Live) (1-13-2019)

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Stand Your Ground (Family Reunion 2018 Remix))

Dear Hannah: GRASPP (Battle Plan)

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Dear Hannah: Teach Students, Not Subjects (Johney)

Friday, December 5, 2014

Dear Hannah: Stand Your Ground (Remix)

Thursday, April 24, 2014

The BIG Picture: U Can't C Me (Ode To The Invisible)

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