She plans to use the opportunity to “center Black heroes, celebrate family, friendship and heritage, and show children the storytellers they hold inside.” As Piedmont Laureate, Kelly will have a platform for positively shaping the Triangle community’s perceptions of children’s literature. How we define children’s literature, whose stories we uplift and center, who we include in children’s stories, and how we include them in these next few years, then, are critical decisions. Children turn to stories to understand their histories and communities, to gather strength, to find ideas for what comes next. Perhaps no one needs that more than kids.”Ĭhildren’s literature, of course, plays a vital role in helping children imagine possibilities for the future. It’s an act of resistance against a world that tries to set us back, divide us and push us down at every turn. Alongside that message, there’s another that’s building momentum – Black joy matters. Proclaiming that Black Lives Matter is essential. As Kelly notes, “Around the nation, people are demonstrating to dismantle systemic racism and demand changes to ensure our freedom and safety. Our country’s children are being required to navigate the grief and isolation of a pandemic and systemic racism, in addition to the already challenging task of growing up. Kelly Starling Lyons-nationally recognized author of seventeen children’s books and respected advocate for Black children’s book creators through The Brown Bookshelf-is stepping into the leadership role of the Piedmont Laureate at a poignant time. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets.Author and Piedmont Laureate Kelly Starling Lyons in front of several of her children’s books, Photo by Melissa R. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. "There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother our last name was Smith. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it." "What it feels to descend from the mountain top. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. We walked(ed?) the plank and we walk(ed?) the plankīroken down on memory lane and all together we’re alone. We only want to sing you to sleep (your bedroom speakers whoa) There’s a world outside of my front door that gets off on being down We need umbrellas on the inside get me right I could learn to pity fools as I’m the worst of allĪnd I can’t stop feeling sorry for myself There’s a world outside my front door that gets off on being down We need umbrellas on the inside, give me get me right We only want to sing you to sleep through your bedroom speakers I’m just a painter and I’m drawing a blank. Penny for your thoughts but a dollar for your insights
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