05/25/2026
It IS beautiful. Absolutely.
I have personally spent....hundreds if hours here. As a resource and warrior explaining & exposing the statistics takung Veterans lives. I was told by a Commissioner recently they believe as a PRIVATE citizen I had been there & spoke more on our communuty needs & ills more than ANY other in Colbert County history. It is on record.
Keep in mind...never once did I voice issues that I did not offer a resolation and raise my own hand to volunteer. Not once. Keep in mind I have been tasked this by the Most High over the last decade. Task by the Most High on behalf of "the least of these. " I have been able to represent some of The Shoals best, most authentic & incredible businesses & folk. Presented undisputable statistics that SHOULD have moved mountains.
At times it has. Then ....there is the ugly part. The being referenced as n. lover, dirty Jew, damn Yankee....sometimes I would hear this standing at a door I'd just closed in a room I'd just left that offered face time & all smiles....
There are a few amazing, steadfast & iron principled people whom I have felt honored to have even shared space. Thinkers. Doers. HIS people.
Always know I missed NO ONE. I have been honest, transparent provided alarming stats, gifts candies, food, flowers offering enlightenment & partnership. Solutions. Options.
This is not to MY credit. Had HE not insisted ; I'd have done like most....made money for personal benefit, lived my life & partied on. But for whatever reasons the Heavenly Father required more & different from me. It was never negotiable.
I woke swathed in gratitude, humility, prayer & hope. As always praying for you. All of you. Prioritizing that nit by what I say in a hashtag but how I live; how I move.
The cost has been more than what I thought I could bare. My home, my marriage, my vehicle, my time & many many times my dignity for the comfort & refusal to act on emergencies for our Veterans, our animals, our kids, our community.
There are a few that use these walls as a place to hide. They speak poor of me bc my honesty reveals something missing in THEIR work; their integrity.
I rose today in prayer same as always. Serving our Veterans. I have help. Many of you. Yet it will always reasonate those that could & should have helped but declined bc It wasn't self serving to them. Pride can be deadly.
This is one of my FAVORITE Veterans. And we never met. This photo represents character in one man that was passed down to his son.
May we remember those that gave. And may we work together to save those in struggle for their lives bc they DID serve.
Let it sink in.
To our soldiers. Salute. Ty for providing the blanket of freedom of which I've lived. Ty endlessly to those that have helped, listened & pushed for aide & resolution.
I have never, ever refused help when asked. Many times offering before being asked. Keep that in mind as you judge...
