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 When I was younger I thought my disability was a burden, Ocular Motor Apraxia and Joubert Syndrome. For some quite time I couldn't come to the realization that I had a disability. I was ashamed, I didn't want to admit that shit was part of my life. It was just like yesterday that I was in the mirror and asking God why did He give me this disability!! I was crying so hard that day but I guess I had to go through all of the trials and tribulations to realize my GREATNESS. Sometimes we have to go through some bullshit to get to the pot of gold (happiness) and/or to find our truest form of enlightenment/GREATNESS. With finding that GREATNESS and/or enlightenment we and I have to look within ourselves and accept our flaws and shortcomings from the past and deal with the flaws in the present and into the future. One perfect example is the last scene in Flight starring Denzel Washington when he was in prison he had to accept the flaws that he had but in the midst of that acceptance h

  Yesterday I called Macs Backs ( an independent book store) where you can purchase my book NightCrawlers: Unbound Emotions. You can buy my book on my website at poetrybynoldon.com. Anyways I called Macs Backs ( Cleveland Heights, Ohio) to ask if a copy of my novel has been purchased and the guy on the other end told me no but they will. The guy could've just said no and hung up the phone but he didn't. He said and I repeat no but they will. I needed those words to be spoken to me, he just lifted me up that day. Words of encouragement are very uplifting and much needed especially this day and age. Spread a word of encouragement to somebody or multiple of bodies today and many more days after.

 1) I was at the Root Café one night  for open mic night and I was hungry. So I decided to to order a burrito which was vegan. It was great going in but coming out was a different story!! I'm not discrediting the Café because they have some great almond cookies, I'm just not used to vegan foods. Anyways back to the story, the Café was about to close but I needed somewhere to go to the bathroom because of that dang vegan burrito so I went to the Family Dollar across the street. I was rushing to that bathroom like a hot potato. I was so excited to reach that bathroom. When I was still at the Root Café, some droppings came out onto my underwear. At Family Dollar I used some toilet paper and then some, no wonder the toilet wasn't flushing. Then I told one of the workers that the toilet was clogged up. I had to take the bus home and all of the way home, I was thinking of my wet underwear and smell. Now I think about it, I'm pretty sure the bus smells and my smell matched tha

 I'm pretty sure for the most part that We all want to evolve .  One example is we don't want to be stuck in the mud regarding life for along time, we want to dig ourselves out of the mud eventually. Sooner or later and I think at this point, its people's preference. Everybody makes mistakes,  has trials and tribulations and setbacks in life and sometimes some people want to talk about those mistakes, those setback and those trials and tribulations in the present but all of that shit was in the past. I did a lot of shit in the past that I am happy about and some stuff I'm not happy about but the point is that ALL OF THAT SHIT WAS IN THE PAST and that shouldn't interfere with my/our present and/or future.  I want to evolve and I'm pretty sure You guys want to evolve too but those people in my opinion that always bring up our past wants us to be that younger version of ourselves but we are not, we are evolving human beings. For those who talk about people's pa

This past week I went to a sports marketing workshop called the Marcus Graham Projec t. The workshop creates a voice to African Americans in the marketing field.  There were a few Caucasians in the workshop but after the workshop ended, it seemed like they got a little glimpse of what BLACK EXCELLENCE  looks like. There were so many young African American professionals at the workshop and I felt so EMPOWERED & ENLIGHTENED. All of us in the workshop had to break up in teams and we had to develop presentations and we had to find  a solution for social unrest through the Cleveland Browns perspective. The workshop was only four days so a lot of us were panicked about the deadline but at the end every presentation was done well. This blog isn't only about me so I uploaded some pics from the workshop. The workshop gave me insight on how marketing, on any level works. Even though I don't have a marketing background I learned a lot and absorbed so much information. I would tell

 You may or may not  have a voice in the beginning of your life. For example, if You are shy and lacking confidence You won't have a voice to stand up for others or most importantly, standing up for yourself. Hopefully, You will in the future. I didn't a voice when I was younger, well at least I didn't know I had a voice until much later in my life.  I didn't advocate for myself until I realized that Joubert Syndrome is part of me which was the end of eleventh and the beginning of my senior year in high school. I would say that having a voice especially having a voice to save others or standing for others comes with a great responsibility and that great responsibility is to uphold what You are saying to the certain audiences. I'm not saying You/We have to be perfect or have a straight edged lifestyle. I think it's very possible that You/We can be unperfect and still have a voice for ourselves and others.   

  I pray, I  pray and I pray some more. The reason that I pray is because there are lot of blessings in my life that I'm THANKFUL for God bringing me those blessings and present and future blessings . I also pray because it's HEALING and TRANQUILITY within my body. The HEALING and TRANQUILITY deals with my favorite scripture Philippians 4:13.  If you don't know what I'm talking about search my favorite scripture on this blog and you'll find what I'm talking about. Growing up Presbyterian, I learned how to pray at an early age. I am THANKFUL for my mother bringing me to church at a young age so I can know how to pray. As I got older my prayers got more developed. For example, when I was younger I was praying not in depth but now I pray in depth. Details are so essential in my opinion and the more details that You give God the more TRANQUILITY and HEALING that You receive. I'm not saying that if You don't pray in depth  You won't get TRANQUILITY an

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       For anybody who was told that You weren't enough any stay in your life,  I AM telling You that You are enough!! People might try to tear You down but to tell you the truth, those people are going to be  irrelevant to You years to come. Those bullies can make a negative impact on your life then and now maybe but not in the future hopefully. For me, I doubted myself because of other negative impacts that I had in my life but that was then but in the present and future those negative impacts/bullies are out of my life and when the negative impacts resurface, I don't let them mess with me as much on an emotional and mental level. I will NEVER forget what my dad told me one day when those negative impacts were bothering me and he said You have to ignore ignorance somehow and that stayed with me til this day. Some family members don't support their own family and that is so unfortunate. Some people in your family may be negative impacts but that shouldn't stop You from

 I want to evolve everyday but evolving is hard for me but evolving is not impossible. For example, I hosted my very own pop up shop on May 1st. Hosting a pop up shop is different than being a regular vendor. I was a vendor myself but as a host I had to look for vendors and pay for the venue and drinks. The pop up was a success and not only in the monetary definition. Anyways, my point is that what I did was hard but I wanted to aim for More. I wanted to show myself I could do this and plus I wanted to push myself. I just didn't want to only become a vendor which I  want to do as a career but for the long and short term I want to continue to sell my merchandise and also host pop ups. Before May 1st I was worried  because I had to find 10 vendors so I can match the venue price and I also was worrying if people were going to show up but in the midst of that worry, God told me to just calm down and everything will be ok. So I calmed down and everything was great!! In other words, God

 Life is hard especially nowadays But when God gives You an opportunity to wake up in the morning, that's our/your shot to make that day the best day ever or to not slack off on that day. If You want to pursue anything in life, you have to work for it and everyday isn't promised so that day God has granted You to wake up, You/We better not waste the precious time. I'm going to be honest with you guys, if I'm not building my brand up, I watch tv but lately I have watched podcasts on Youtube to get information that I want and need. One particular podcast that I listen to is I AM ATHLETE with Chad Johnson, Brandon Marshall, Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder. They are retired football players who talk about finances, mental health and all or most of the topics that grown BLACK men won't talk about. Also they have special guests as Dwayne Wade, Rick Ross, Cam Newton, Ali Riley and Toni Presseley. They relate the topics to athletes but as every episode goes by, all of the

As you guys know my confidence was low growing up but over the years my confidence grew gradually to a high level. Nobody is going to be a cheerleader for You besides maybe your closest friends and family but on  second though some families aren't cheerleaders at all . What I'm saying is that You have to be your own cheerleader and that comes with confidence, low or high confidence .  My confidence was low at first but it become high gradually. Sometimes You will have the same process as me and other times You will have confidence that's high and hopefully your confidence will stay high but sometimes it can get low and that's ok.  If your confidence gets low, what or who can raise your confidence to high or to medium levels? My mother and God are the two people who give me confidence when my confidence gets low.  

 A couple weeks ago I went to the movies and saw this movie entitled Karnan. I looked the movie up on the Cinemark app on my phone but they didn't have a synopsis. I liked the poster so I gave the movie a chance and I'm glad that I did. Karnan is  a great movie that had me laughing and crying joyfully. Plus, the score was good, I was groovin in my seat. I was the only person in the theatre so I could do that!! I'll give you guys about my opinion/meaning about the movie and my opinion is that even though Karnan, the main character was the hero for his village in India, he was a knucklehead. He was causing unnecessary mischief for the most part. He also was a hothead.  But deep down he cared for his people and for their well-being. There was an outside negative force that prevented these Indians from progressing normalcy in their homeland and the negative outside force was the Indian government and unfortunately Karnan had to go to jail for the Indian government to get those

 I love the projects that I put out and if You don't know what I'm talking about, check out my websites: www. poetrybynoldon.com and www.inspireeducateencourage.com. I recently put out a book called NightCrawlers: Unbound Emotions and I'll give You guys a little synopsis. The novel is about a young lady who is a dancer at a strip club who has to leave from Cleveland, Ohio to Alabama unexpectedly. This novel brings light to the current events in America through the characters. Being able to put out two poetry books and selling my t-shirts is amazing and I'm BLESSED!! I thank God for the creativity and imagination that HE placed in my life. NO MATTER what subject matter I decide to have in my poetry or my novels, GOD  still blesses me with the yearning of creativity and wonder.  For anybody who has a passion for something or multiple passions for something, GO FOR IT because that passion(s) can turn into a business and that business can turn into revenue, little or a lot

I wrote a poem entitled I AM BLACK and its about me being black in America. I didn't explain a lot in the poem but that is why I'm writing this post, to explain why I entitled the poem I AM BLACK . I'm a black man who lives in America who does fucked up shit but that fucked up shit that I do is supposed to help people and not hinder people. That's the best way for me to explain the contents of the poem.  And I'm proud to black even though the African American community have endured so much.  The t-shirts that I make have the words INSPIRE, EDUCATE, ENCOURAGE on them and lately I added the phrases BLACK LIVES MATTER, WE WON'T BE SILENCED, STAY WOKE and the reason I did this is because I wanted to support the Black Lives Movement. There are so many innocent black men and women who were/are gunned down and even murdered by Some Cowardly cops whose life's are miserable in my opinion. Some of the women and men who are gone but never forgotten are George Fl