~BE YOU~DO YOU~SHINE~

  

  

Nothing is Guaranteed .....

 

~ Award winning artist, author, poet ~

Cyrus A. Webb

Brandon Mississippi

http://www.authorsden.com/cawebb

Mississippi World Class Entertainers

http://www.mississippibelieveit.com/home/

Guest Speaker Tupelo Mississippi High School

Students just completed a unit on poetry ! Yay for Poetry !!!
Shown with teacher and Student teacher

~Celebrate Black History Month~

'Yes, We Can Read. A Few of Us Can Even Write'

“From Pulitzer Prize winners to revolutionaries who initiated momentous cultural change….

Oh, yes, Mississippians can write.

No other state in the country can claim as many honored, awarded and revered

writers as Mississippi.

Yes, Mississippi !!   Where words transcend.”

http://www.mississippibelieveit.com/home/

'A State of Grace'

Ms. Oseola McCarty
(March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1999)

“We always hear about Mississippi being last. Last in this, last in that. Well, at last, Mississippi is first … in generosity.* And, in 1995, the world took note of Mississippi’s generous spirit through a single, unselfish act. 

Ms. Oseola McCarty of Hattiesburg had made a living washing & ironing for over 75 years. As a child, she was taught to save money by her mother, a single-parent who was a cook and sold candy to make ends meet.

Over the years, Oseola – who lived modestly, never even owning a car – accumulated a small fortune. In1995, she donated $150,000 to The University of Southern Mississippi for an endowed scholarship. It was the single largest gift ever given to USM by an African-American.

Having quit school in 6th grade to help take care of her ailing aunt, Oseola wanted desperately “to help somebody’s child go to college.” The Oseola McCarty Scholarship does just that by giving “priority consideration to those deserving African-American students enrolling at USM who clearly demonstrate a financial need.”

Prior to her death in 1999, Ms. McCarty received scores of awards and other honors recognizing her generous spirit, including the Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation’s second highest civilian award. But all the awards and accolades in the world could never truly match the rich, warm, humble blessing that was Ms. Oseola McCarty.”



From Mississippi Believe It !



http://www.mississippibelieveit.com/home/

Mississippi Believe It !

What started on an airplane as a conversation between a 12-year-old boy from Connecticut and a Mississippi businessman led to the creation of Mississippi, Believe It!™

The boy asked Rick Looser, COO of The Cirlot Agency, if he, "still saw the KKK on the streets
every day" ... and whether or not he "hates all black people." This stunning revelation was the catalyst to create the campaign, which combats the erroneous stereotypes that plague Mississippi.

The Cirlot Agency designed Mississippi, Believe It!™, pro bono, to inform and educate the world about the accomplishments, wonderful people, aspects and facts associated with the state of Mississippi.

The campaign takes common Mississippi stereotypes and twists them to reveal the truth about the state.


http://www.mississippibelieveit.com/home/

Bookworm

  

Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia-A Life in Poems
Link to Amazon.com

Include A Book in Your Next Gift Basket

NEAT GIFT BASKET IDEAS !

You can never go wrong with a book  :)

 

 

Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia-A Life in Poems - Book Review

.

Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia-A Life in Poems

Amazon.com book review

"I was privileged to purchase this "little book of poems" first at a book-signing, and to hear many of them read in the authors own musical voice. I must say that as I read the remainder of her poems, it was her voice that I heard intoning the words, her soft Mississippi accent hitting the syllables just right, playing like a haunting melody from yesteryear in my head.

I am a native Mississippian. I know exactly of what the author writes. I have lived it. Mississippi flows through my blood in ways that are nearly inexplicable, and yet, Neely-Dorsey has largely explained it through her poetry. Reading her poetry is like coming home to myself. No gloom and doom here. No head-scratching, dictionary-hunting,"what-the-heck do they mean by that?" poetry. Just straight from the heart and memory, in an easy rhyming fashion that anyone from youngsters to older folks can read, understand, and delight in. There's beauty, as in "Mississippi Morning", humor and wit, as in "Shades of Lovely", and state pride, "Mississippi Through and Through". My personal favorite, the achingly deceptive, "Right To Vote", written in her typical lighthearted manner, chronicles the bitter struggles blacks went through for that right. It moves me each time I read it, and I read it again and again.

Poetry is a lyrical means of expressing oneself. I would say Patrica Neely-Dorsey has made an excellent start."


(by: Sheila Joy Hutcherson)


Link to book on Amazon.com

Diva on a Dime/ Mrs. Magnolia does the Pageant Scene

At the encouragement of one of my dear friends in Jackson who works with the Mississippi Arts Commission, saying that she thought that it would broaden my audience for my message, I decided to enter the 2012 Mrs. Mississippi Pageant.
At first , I thought it was a ridiculous idea because most of the girls who competed were half my age and very experienced in pageants. Most had been participating in pageants for years. I on the other had had only ever participated in one other pageant...and that was when I was 16 years old !!! LOL!! Although I didn't place, I had a wonderful time, met a lot of new friends and as my Jackson friend had suggested it did expose my platform to a new, larger audience.