April 23, 2024
Happy Heavenly Birthday Mama

On todays episode of Currently Under Construktion. We touch on ,recognize ,and celebrate the life of a wonderful and amazing woman. My mom the wonderful and incredible Estella Overton. We share some amazing stories about this magnificent woman. So...
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Cousins, ken folks, come on
in today. Welcome to the newest episode
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of You Know What It is,
your favorite podcast also mine Colonel down in
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Construction. I'm your host, King
Hub. Thank you so much for joining
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me today. Oh man, it's
a special day today, there's a special
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day. Before I get into that, once again, I want to thank
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everyone for your support for all the
poor and support for the emails I received
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yesterday, for everybody coming in saying
how glad they are the podcast is back.
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I am so bad to be so
glad to be back with you all.
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Listen, the hiatt was a bit
long. It really was, And
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I've had some who've asked, but, hey, what was going on during
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your hiatus that you took off so
long. For the most part, the
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short answer is I needed a break. I needed a mental break. But
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in the future episode I will give
an entire full explanation of why I took
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that hiatus, almost seeming when we
just kicked off the new season. So
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don't worry, cousins and ken folks, We're going to get in there to
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it, so just be patient with
me. Again. It's coming in the
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future episode. But today we're not
talking about that today is a different day
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altogether. Today is a day of
celebration. Now, don't get me wrong.
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Every day should be a day of
celebration, you know, because the
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almost I gave us the opportunity to
open our eyes again, the most I
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gave us an opportunity to be the
breath of life in us again, to
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see yet another day, to have
another opportunity to draw closer to Him and
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to get it right. But today, April twenty third, twenty twenty four,
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today, as most of you know, who of those of you who's
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been following me, who knows today
it's a Queen's that Today, a queen
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was born. Today, very wonderful
and special lady was born. And we're
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talking about my tea lady, my
heartbeat, my mother, Xceella Overton.
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Today is her birthday and we're celebrating
it today now. Although for those of
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you who've been following me and they
know, my mother transitioned in twenty twenty
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from COVID and I've had a difficult
time with that at some point here and
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there. I still do have my
days here and there, but for the
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most part, on today we're celebrating
her. Today's her birthday and we're celebrating
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her special day today. Today's the
day of joy, Today's the day of
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gladness. Today's day that we look
and we remember and we honor my tea
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lady, you know, Estella Overton. And the thing is, I could
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even hear her laughter right now,
you know. And she had the most
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wonderful, infectious laugh, you know, and it just george. And she
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had this big, beautiful smile.
But for some reason, I don't know
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why, for some reason, my
mom didn't like to smile a whole lot
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or better, Yeah, she didn't
like to smile a whole lot in pictures.
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And she's a beautiful woman. Oh
my god, My mom's a beautiful,
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tall woman, you know. Uh, everyth melanding, you know,
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tall, strong, you know.
Uh. They they definitely don't make them
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like her, no more. Ah, they don't make them like that.
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That that that cloth that my mam
is cut from. Yeah, they don't
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make them like that no more.
That that God only had a limited number
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of those when he he he he
formed and created her. And and and
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that that that mold got thrown away, thrown in the sea of forgetfulness,
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thrown in the bushes some dog on
where I don't know where it is,
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but they don't make them like that
no more. Now. She she had
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no no, don't get me wrong
now and like none of it. Like
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most of us, my mom was
a perfect like most like all of us
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walk in this planet. You know, Uh, she wasn't perfect. She
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did the best she could, but
she uh taught me and my sisters a
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lot. She did. She you
know, gave us an amazing work ethic.
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You know, I've seen my mom
like go to work like in the
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rain, Like you've heard this,
You've heard the term, you know,
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go to work rain, sleep,
snow or shine. She did that.
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She did that. I've seen her
go to work in the rain. You
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know, I've seen her go to
work when it's it's snowing. I've seen
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her going to work, you know, just bust her tail off five I
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mean mostly six days a week to
make sure that she, to Kim,
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was being able to provide for her
family. She did that. She gave
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us an amazing work ethic, you
know, my sisters and I she poured
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into everybody who she was around,
and my mom had she had again can
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said, a real infectious personality.
Also, I don't She's never met a
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stranger ever, never met a stranger. I've seen my mom in Walmart and
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strangers will come up to and just
strike up a whole conversation and then five
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or six minutes later, they're sitting
there laughing like they have known each other
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for thirty years and this is the
first time they've seen each other in years,
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and they are going to town,
do you hear me? And it
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always fascinated me when I saw that. But that was just her, That
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was her personality. That was the
kind of of or she had when she
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was around people, you know,
and she had that that that it My
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great my my great grandmother was the
matriarch of the family. So that mantle
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that's passed down from generation and generation
from the among the women s. Somehow
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or another, I don't know,
if she just didn't want it or whatever
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the case may be, it bypassed
my grandmother and it went to my mom.
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So my mom became like the central
and center focus of everybody and everything
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in the family. Uh, if
something needed done, my mom was who
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they called you maybe in between homes
at that particular time. It just made
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they need a place to stay until
you get back on your feet. That
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was my mama's house. Uh,
my mama's house was where we met up
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on holidays, not just her ch
us, her children, but that's where
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the family came to on the holidays
for for July, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day,
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Christmas. It was done and had
at my mom's house. So her
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so what whatever that that thing is
that for that mantle was passed down to
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her and she assumed it and she
I I'd have to say, she she
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was built for it. She was
and it was just it just amazed me,
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you know that she would uh could
handle that. My mom was one
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of the most intelligent women that I've
known in my life, considering the fact
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that she only had a fourth grade
education. Yeah, you heard me correctly,
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cousins and ken folks for those of
you who don't know, my mom
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only had a fourth grade education.
But she was one of the most intelligent
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women I've known in my life.
She wasn't good at a lot of things
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if you just looking at books,
since books smart or whatever whatnot, but
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she had everything else. I've sit
and I've watched her calculate with precision in
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her head. I've seen her at
the bank, you know, work with
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them about loans and the percentages of
whatnot. I've watched her sit here,
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you know, and and calculate and
talk with realtor about the interest rate and
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the market value of a home and
that thirty year mortgage, and that the
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difference between a thirty year and the
twenty five year. Morga I said,
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I've watched her do this, and
if you listen to you would swear up
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and up and down. She has
a college degree. Oh she went to
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college for all of that shit she
does, but she did not. One
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of the most intelligent people I've known
in my life where I've ever seen that
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was my mom. She pushed us
to always do and be better than her.
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It's like most like most of us
should do. As parents. We
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should want our children to do better
than us, cause that's that's that's all.
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That's how it's supposed to be.
That's a part of that. We
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want however far or whatever we've been
able to accomplish in life. Sh they
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should. We should want that for
our children to go above and beyond what
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we have done. And she did
that. She can still live into us,
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especially me. I'm the first born, so of course a lot of
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that was fell on me initially first
because I'm the oldest grandchild for my grandmother
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and I'm the first one to graduate
from high school and go to college,
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so that was a lot of pressure
on me. But it was until the
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point of constantly nagging or anything of
their particular nature, you know. But
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it was the fact that she wanted
to see that. My grandmother wanted to
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see that, and they poured into
me to ensure that I did that,
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and I did and it made them
both so very proud. My mama was
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hard in her ways, but she
was fair at the same time, you
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know, but she had a knack
to of also, I guess, like
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most really good mothers, drawing in
more children. Because all of my friends
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looked at and called my mom mama, so she was. She was like
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a second mom to all of my
friends, you know, and they a
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lot of them still ask about her
to this day, or or hey,
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you remember when your mama did this, this and the third you member it
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was at your house, and how
your mom used to sit there and always
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made sure that we ate and everything. Because she was that type of mom,
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you know. She when she cooked
and everything and my friends came back,
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they were there. She would just
call me into the house and send
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them home and then I eat it
whatever, don't She fed them, she
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knew them all by name. But
come on in him and come on,
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go in and wash your hands,
come on here and fix you up plate.
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Yeah she did. And my friends
were like her other her other children,
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because if she came to the school
to uh see me a check up
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on my grades or whatever, or
she came to a PTA meeting or whatever
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the case may be, she checking
in on them too. Hey what his
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grades look like? What you've been
doing? You know better than that,
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I might talk to your mama.
Oh okay, then oh you've been acting
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up in class? Yeah, that
was my mom. That was my mom.
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She was She was a second mom, told of my friends, and
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in many ways, she was like
the neighborhood mom. You know, every
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every every really good community has one
of those, a neighborhood mom and a
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neighborhood dad that just all of the
kids and the parents gravitate too. So
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that's that's going back to connecting what
I told you about. Whatever that mantle
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that was passed down from my great
grandmother to my mama, whatever that is
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that it is, they recognized because
again My great grandmama was the same way.
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When she was living. You know, she was the neighborhood mom.
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Everybody, including their parents, they
came to her four things, or about
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something, or advice about something.
They came to my great grandmother, and
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in turn, everybody in my neighborhood
came to my mom about stuff. You
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know, so she she knew what
it was, She embraced it, and
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she she took it to town.
She did. She loved people. She
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had a great love for people.
If she didn't like you, she'd let
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you know. She would be playing
and clear. She would literally if she
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didn't like you. There weren't many
people who came along that my mom uh
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instantly disliked. But if you did
certain things to her or her family or
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especially her children, of dude,
that's a rap. She gonna let you
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know that she don't like you.
She gonna make sure that you know that
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she don't by any means, she
will cut you out three ways past Sunday
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and baby. When my mom was
younger, my mama was cut cussed with
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the best of'em. She taught
us. We listened to her. She
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taught us. Now, although I
don't really cuss a lot anyone. And
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I've worked very hard over the years
too not to do so, and I'm
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grateful for that. But and my
mom did it. My mom did also.
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But Baby, when she was younger
cousins of Kim folks, do you
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hear me cussed with the best of
them? She made up cuss words.
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You be like, wait, is
that even a word? Or she'll put
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two cuss words together, or and
it's since that she like, wait that
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tho, those don't even go together? But it did when you heard it
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from her. You did, you
did when you heard it from her,
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man, I promise you. But
she had this light about her though,
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that people just loved. They truly
did. She was she was warm soul
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when she when my dad died and
she gave her life to God. She
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always did believe in God. Don't
get me wrong, she always did believe
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in God. But when she truly
gave her life to God, you begin
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to s to see a true change
in her. Then it was like her
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true purpose beginning at that moment,
because she she found her church home and
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she was completely devoted to being a
better her, preparing her soul for the
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afterlife and doing whatever it takes doing
whatever it took to be a good Cristest,
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to be a good person, to
be a good neighbor, and to
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be a good church member. She
did all of those things. I mean,
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her life completely changed around. I
mean, she was doing things in
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the community. She was very active
in her church. She became one of
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the not probably not the at her
church. From what I understand, she
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became the youngest to be elected to
the motherboard, even though she wasn't at
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the age yet to where that once
that she would be elected to it.
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But she had done the work and
she was still doing the work and they
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recognized it, and she was elected
to the motherboard before the age of seventy.
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That was amazing for in her church. And she she was the epitome
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of what a church mother should do
or what a church mother is. She
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was the epitome of that. And
she didn't take her role or her activities
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in the church. She never took
them lightly. She never took her relationship
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with God lightly. Again, when
she gave her life to God, she
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truly did. And you begin to
see the change in her, you know,
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you begin to see, you know, her development and her relationship with
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God because she so began to see
it in her everyday actions, you begin
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to see her shine. And that's
an amazing thing. You know, like
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all of us, we have our
quirks and our faults here there, but
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that's not the case. That's not
the point or the thing in being a
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believer and that she's supposed to be
perfect or anything of that nature. Know,
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you having a relationship with God is
you know, you're working every day
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to draw closer to Him, to
have that relationship with him, to do
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and be better than you were the
day before. And she she did that.
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She was doing that each and every
day, and I couldn't be more
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proud of her. I mean,
she she singing the evolution of her over
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the years or and and just even
sitting back right now remembering it, it's
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leaps and bounds. It leaps and
bounds. It is what we should strive
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for as people. We all have
w certain periods in our life that we
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are but we should continue to keep
growing and evolving. We should never stop
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trying to evolve in life. The
day we should stop evolving is today,
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the most high transition us from this
world to the next. That's when it
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should stop. It should never stop
until then we should be ever evolving,
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each end, every day we should. So I miss you, Mama,
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I do. I'm not sad today
or or anything. I am full of
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joy. I've had my moment after
midnight last night when her birthday hit.
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I had my moment, and I'm
okay. I am truly happy to celebrate
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her born day today because without her
coming into this world, my sisters,
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I, our children, we wouldn't
be here because we're her legacy. We're
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her legacy. We wouldn't be here. And the lessons that she taught us
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and the way that the things that
she poured into us never forget it,
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we never forget it. It's it's
it was an amazing, phenomenal woman who
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she loved. She loved her family, she loved her community, she loved
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people period, and she loved God. That cousins and ken folks is the
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epitome of currently under construction, of
being and under construction, that is the
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epitome of it. That is the
epitome of it. Estella Overton, you
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are missed, you are loved,
You appreciate it, and we just pray
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that you continue to watch over us
the way that you've been doing and keep
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smiling. You, Grandmama, dear
Daddy, and everybody up there. Y'all
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just keep dancing and having the time
of your life up there with the most
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time, and keep looking down at
us. We love you all with every
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part of us, and you are
truly missed, cousins, ken folks.
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That wraps up today's episode of Currently
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of your favorite podcast, currently under
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cousins and Ken folks. You know
what time it is. It takes a
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village for us to do this thing, and you all are my village,
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and we're gonna continue to keep building
this thing together, you and I,
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step by step, one brick at
a time, currently under construction. Happy
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birthday, Mama, we love you
Modea. It's show day, baby.
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I love you all, cousins and
kenfolks. Have a great day. I'll
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see you all later this week.
Peace.
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Cousins, ken folks, come on
in today. Welcome to the newest episode
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of You Know What It is,
your favorite podcast also mine Colonel down in
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Construction. I'm your host, King
Hub. Thank you so much for joining
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me today. Oh man, it's
a special day today, there's a special
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day. Before I get into that, once again, I want to thank
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everyone for your support for all the
poor and support for the emails I received
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yesterday, for everybody coming in saying
how glad they are the podcast is back.
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I am so bad to be so
glad to be back with you all.
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Listen, the hiatt was a bit
long. It really was, And
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I've had some who've asked, but, hey, what was going on during
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your hiatus that you took off so
long. For the most part, the
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short answer is I needed a break. I needed a mental break. But
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in the future episode I will give
an entire full explanation of why I took
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that hiatus, almost seeming when we
just kicked off the new season. So
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don't worry, cousins and ken folks, We're going to get in there to
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it, so just be patient with
me. Again. It's coming in the
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future episode. But today we're not
talking about that today is a different day
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altogether. Today is a day of
celebration. Now, don't get me wrong.
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Every day should be a day of
celebration, you know, because the
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almost I gave us the opportunity to
open our eyes again, the most I
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gave us an opportunity to be the
breath of life in us again, to
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see yet another day, to have
another opportunity to draw closer to Him and
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to get it right. But today, April twenty third, twenty twenty four,
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today, as most of you know, who of those of you who's
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been following me, who knows today
it's a Queen's that Today, a queen
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was born. Today, very wonderful
and special lady was born. And we're
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talking about my tea lady, my
heartbeat, my mother, Xceella Overton.
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Today is her birthday and we're celebrating
it today now. Although for those of
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you who've been following me and they
know, my mother transitioned in twenty twenty
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from COVID and I've had a difficult
time with that at some point here and
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there. I still do have my
days here and there, but for the
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most part, on today we're celebrating
her. Today's her birthday and we're celebrating
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her special day today. Today's the
day of joy, Today's the day of
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gladness. Today's day that we look
and we remember and we honor my tea
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lady, you know, Estella Overton. And the thing is, I could
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even hear her laughter right now,
you know. And she had the most
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wonderful, infectious laugh, you know, and it just george. And she
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had this big, beautiful smile.
But for some reason, I don't know
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why, for some reason, my
mom didn't like to smile a whole lot
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or better, Yeah, she didn't
like to smile a whole lot in pictures.
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And she's a beautiful woman. Oh
my god, My mom's a beautiful,
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tall woman, you know. Uh, everyth melanding, you know,
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tall, strong, you know.
Uh. They they definitely don't make them
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like her, no more. Ah, they don't make them like that.
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That that that cloth that my mam
is cut from. Yeah, they don't
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make them like that no more.
That that God only had a limited number
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of those when he he he he
formed and created her. And and and
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that that that mold got thrown away, thrown in the sea of forgetfulness,
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thrown in the bushes some dog on
where I don't know where it is,
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but they don't make them like that
no more. Now. She she had
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no no, don't get me wrong
now and like none of it. Like
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most of us, my mom was
a perfect like most like all of us
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walk in this planet. You know, Uh, she wasn't perfect. She
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did the best she could, but
she uh taught me and my sisters a
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lot. She did. She you
know, gave us an amazing work ethic.
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You know, I've seen my mom
like go to work like in the
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rain, Like you've heard this,
You've heard the term, you know,
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go to work rain, sleep,
snow or shine. She did that.
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She did that. I've seen her
go to work in the rain. You
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know, I've seen her go to
work when it's it's snowing. I've seen
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her going to work, you know, just bust her tail off five I
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mean mostly six days a week to
make sure that she, to Kim,
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was being able to provide for her
family. She did that. She gave
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us an amazing work ethic, you
know, my sisters and I she poured
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into everybody who she was around,
and my mom had she had again can
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said, a real infectious personality.
Also, I don't She's never met a
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stranger ever, never met a stranger. I've seen my mom in Walmart and
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strangers will come up to and just
strike up a whole conversation and then five
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or six minutes later, they're sitting
there laughing like they have known each other
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for thirty years and this is the
first time they've seen each other in years,
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and they are going to town,
do you hear me? And it
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always fascinated me when I saw that. But that was just her, That
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was her personality. That was the
kind of of or she had when she
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was around people, you know,
and she had that that that it My
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great my my great grandmother was the
matriarch of the family. So that mantle
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that's passed down from generation and generation
from the among the women s. Somehow
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or another, I don't know,
if she just didn't want it or whatever
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the case may be, it bypassed
my grandmother and it went to my mom.
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So my mom became like the central
and center focus of everybody and everything
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in the family. Uh, if
something needed done, my mom was who
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they called you maybe in between homes
at that particular time. It just made
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they need a place to stay until
you get back on your feet. That
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was my mama's house. Uh,
my mama's house was where we met up
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on holidays, not just her ch
us, her children, but that's where
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the family came to on the holidays
for for July, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day,
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Christmas. It was done and had
at my mom's house. So her
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so what whatever that that thing is
that for that mantle was passed down to
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her and she assumed it and she
I I'd have to say, she she
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was built for it. She was
and it was just it just amazed me,
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you know that she would uh could
handle that. My mom was one
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of the most intelligent women that I've
known in my life, considering the fact
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that she only had a fourth grade
education. Yeah, you heard me correctly,
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cousins and ken folks for those of
you who don't know, my mom
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only had a fourth grade education.
But she was one of the most intelligent
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women I've known in my life.
She wasn't good at a lot of things
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if you just looking at books,
since books smart or whatever whatnot, but
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she had everything else. I've sit
and I've watched her calculate with precision in
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her head. I've seen her at
the bank, you know, work with
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them about loans and the percentages of
whatnot. I've watched her sit here,
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you know, and and calculate and
talk with realtor about the interest rate and
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the market value of a home and
that thirty year mortgage, and that the
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difference between a thirty year and the
twenty five year. Morga I said,
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I've watched her do this, and
if you listen to you would swear up
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and up and down. She has
a college degree. Oh she went to
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college for all of that shit she
does, but she did not. One
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of the most intelligent people I've known
in my life where I've ever seen that
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was my mom. She pushed us
to always do and be better than her.
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It's like most like most of us
should do. As parents. We
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should want our children to do better
than us, cause that's that's that's all.
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That's how it's supposed to be.
That's a part of that. We
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want however far or whatever we've been
able to accomplish in life. Sh they
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should. We should want that for
our children to go above and beyond what
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we have done. And she did
that. She can still live into us,
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especially me. I'm the first born, so of course a lot of
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that was fell on me initially first
because I'm the oldest grandchild for my grandmother
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and I'm the first one to graduate
from high school and go to college,
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so that was a lot of pressure
on me. But it was until the
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point of constantly nagging or anything of
their particular nature, you know. But
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it was the fact that she wanted
to see that. My grandmother wanted to
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see that, and they poured into
me to ensure that I did that,
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and I did and it made them
both so very proud. My mama was
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hard in her ways, but she
was fair at the same time, you
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know, but she had a knack
to of also, I guess, like
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most really good mothers, drawing in
more children. Because all of my friends
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looked at and called my mom mama, so she was. She was like
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a second mom to all of my
friends, you know, and they a
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lot of them still ask about her
to this day, or or hey,
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you remember when your mama did this, this and the third you member it
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was at your house, and how
your mom used to sit there and always
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made sure that we ate and everything. Because she was that type of mom,
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you know. She when she cooked
and everything and my friends came back,
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they were there. She would just
call me into the house and send
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them home and then I eat it
whatever, don't She fed them, she
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knew them all by name. But
come on in him and come on,
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go in and wash your hands,
come on here and fix you up plate.
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Yeah she did. And my friends
were like her other her other children,
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because if she came to the school
to uh see me a check up
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on my grades or whatever, or
she came to a PTA meeting or whatever
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the case may be, she checking
in on them too. Hey what his
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grades look like? What you've been
doing? You know better than that,
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I might talk to your mama.
Oh okay, then oh you've been acting
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up in class? Yeah, that
was my mom. That was my mom.
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She was She was a second mom, told of my friends, and
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in many ways, she was like
the neighborhood mom. You know, every
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every every really good community has one
of those, a neighborhood mom and a
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neighborhood dad that just all of the
kids and the parents gravitate too. So
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that's that's going back to connecting what
I told you about. Whatever that mantle
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that was passed down from my great
grandmother to my mama, whatever that is
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that it is, they recognized because
again My great grandmama was the same way.
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When she was living. You know, she was the neighborhood mom.
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Everybody, including their parents, they
came to her four things, or about
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something, or advice about something.
They came to my great grandmother, and
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in turn, everybody in my neighborhood
came to my mom about stuff. You
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know, so she she knew what
it was, She embraced it, and
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she she took it to town.
She did. She loved people. She
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had a great love for people.
If she didn't like you, she'd let
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you know. She would be playing
and clear. She would literally if she
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didn't like you. There weren't many
people who came along that my mom uh
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instantly disliked. But if you did
certain things to her or her family or
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especially her children, of dude,
that's a rap. She gonna let you
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know that she don't like you.
She gonna make sure that you know that
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she don't by any means, she
will cut you out three ways past Sunday
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and baby. When my mom was
younger, my mama was cut cussed with
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the best of'em. She taught
us. We listened to her. She
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taught us. Now, although I
don't really cuss a lot anyone. And
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I've worked very hard over the years
too not to do so, and I'm
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grateful for that. But and my
mom did it. My mom did also.
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But Baby, when she was younger
cousins of Kim folks, do you
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hear me cussed with the best of
them? She made up cuss words.
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You be like, wait, is
that even a word? Or she'll put
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two cuss words together, or and
it's since that she like, wait that
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tho, those don't even go together? But it did when you heard it
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from her. You did, you
did when you heard it from her,
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man, I promise you. But
she had this light about her though,
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that people just loved. They truly
did. She was she was warm soul
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when she when my dad died and
she gave her life to God. She
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always did believe in God. Don't
get me wrong, she always did believe
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in God. But when she truly
gave her life to God, you begin
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to s to see a true change
in her. Then it was like her
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true purpose beginning at that moment,
because she she found her church home and
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she was completely devoted to being a
better her, preparing her soul for the
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afterlife and doing whatever it takes doing
whatever it took to be a good Cristest,
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to be a good person, to
be a good neighbor, and to
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be a good church member. She
did all of those things. I mean,
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her life completely changed around. I
mean, she was doing things in
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the community. She was very active
in her church. She became one of
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the not probably not the at her
church. From what I understand, she
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became the youngest to be elected to
the motherboard, even though she wasn't at
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the age yet to where that once
that she would be elected to it.
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But she had done the work and
she was still doing the work and they
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recognized it, and she was elected
to the motherboard before the age of seventy.
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That was amazing for in her church. And she she was the epitome
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of what a church mother should do
or what a church mother is. She
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was the epitome of that. And
she didn't take her role or her activities
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in the church. She never took
them lightly. She never took her relationship
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with God lightly. Again, when
she gave her life to God, she
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truly did. And you begin to
see the change in her, you know,
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you begin to see, you know, her development and her relationship with
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God because she so began to see
it in her everyday actions, you begin
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to see her shine. And that's
an amazing thing. You know, like
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all of us, we have our
quirks and our faults here there, but
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that's not the case. That's not
the point or the thing in being a
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believer and that she's supposed to be
perfect or anything of that nature. Know,
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you having a relationship with God is
you know, you're working every day
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to draw closer to Him, to
have that relationship with him, to do
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and be better than you were the
day before. And she she did that.
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She was doing that each and every
day, and I couldn't be more
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proud of her. I mean,
she she singing the evolution of her over
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the years or and and just even
sitting back right now remembering it, it's
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leaps and bounds. It leaps and
bounds. It is what we should strive
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for as people. We all have
w certain periods in our life that we
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are but we should continue to keep
growing and evolving. We should never stop
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trying to evolve in life. The
day we should stop evolving is today,
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the most high transition us from this
world to the next. That's when it
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should stop. It should never stop
until then we should be ever evolving,
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each end, every day we should. So I miss you, Mama,
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I do. I'm not sad today
or or anything. I am full of
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joy. I've had my moment after
midnight last night when her birthday hit.
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I had my moment, and I'm
okay. I am truly happy to celebrate
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her born day today because without her
coming into this world, my sisters,
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I, our children, we wouldn't
be here because we're her legacy. We're
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her legacy. We wouldn't be here. And the lessons that she taught us
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and the way that the things that
she poured into us never forget it,
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we never forget it. It's it's
it was an amazing, phenomenal woman who
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she loved. She loved her family, she loved her community, she loved
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people period, and she loved God. That cousins and ken folks is the
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epitome of currently under construction, of
being and under construction, that is the
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epitome of it. That is the
epitome of it. Estella Overton, you
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are missed, you are loved,
You appreciate it, and we just pray
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that you continue to watch over us
the way that you've been doing and keep
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smiling. You, Grandmama, dear
Daddy, and everybody up there. Y'all
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just keep dancing and having the time
of your life up there with the most
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time, and keep looking down at
us. We love you all with every
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part of us, and you are
truly missed, cousins, ken folks.
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That wraps up today's episode of Currently
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of your favorite podcast, currently under
construction, So get on in here,
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cousins and Ken folks. You know
what time it is. It takes a
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village for us to do this thing, and you all are my village,
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and we're gonna continue to keep building
this thing together, you and I,
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step by step, one brick at
a time, currently under construction. Happy
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birthday, Mama, we love you
Modea. It's show day, baby.
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I love you all, cousins and
kenfolks. Have a great day. I'll
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see you all later this week.
Peace.





















