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Selfless acts

Greg — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:00:37 +0000

In an email to her mom…Anita wrote:

4/23/04

Ben did the most amazing thing this morning … he was awake for about 10 or 15 minutes before Julia. When Julia woke up she yelled out so we would know she was awake. Ben walked into the bedroom, took her hand to help her up, and they held [...]

Sending Ben into the world

Greg — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:00:48 +0000

In Anita’s journal, under the heading Mental Models >>> Family, Anita wrote important things about her family. About Ben she said:

May 25, 2006

- Ben is everything I wanted in a son physically – a strong, handsome black boy. - He is also sweet, caring and intuitive. - He is really tuned in to others’ feelings - It is [...]

Who am I?

Greg — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:00:07 +0000

November 16, 2006 – Anita was seeking to define herself and her future in the weeks after she quit her firm job. She made this list of things she wanted to do and then some things she thought unique about herself.

I want to make a comfortable living by working out of my home

I want to [...]

Learn

Greg — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:00:23 +0000

Anita dreamt up and worked on a large number of business ideas in the last 10 years of her life. She really wanted to own a business (besides her own law firm). When Anita quit her law firm job in 2006, she wasn’t sure what to do, but this idea came to her. A new [...]

Difficult Truth

Greg — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:00:58 +0000

There’s a funny feeling that comes over you when someone looks you in the eye and reveals a truth about yourself that you had been avoiding for some time. It’s not anger. It’s not sadness. It can’t be denial. It’s more like a hard, cold, but almost welcome acceptance of a very difficult truth. And [...]

Epiphanies

Greg — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:00:46 +0000

All I can seem to write lately is 2-page epiphanies. Probably because that’s all I’m having lately. Two-page epiphanies.

“No doubt about it. God loves you.”

Pointing at the cursor. “There it is. It is waiting for you.”

“To do what?”

“To write something.”

I think I like writing epiphanies because I like learning, [...]

The Price of Freedom

Greg — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:00:13 +0000

“I’m very disappointed in you.”

“I trusted you with this. I don’t trust people very easily.”

“I don’t know if I’ll ever give you another project again.”

“I work around the clock, too. And I still get all of the work done.”

I later finished the draft brief and offered up more assistance over the weekend [...]

Anita’s Manifesto

Greg — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:31:55 +0000

I found a flash drive in Anita’s desk a couple of days ago full of documents, many similar to this. This was written while we lived in Chicago, before she had a job in Atlanta and more than two years before she started her own (service oriented) business.

Her “thoughtfullness” point hits her spot on. Never [...]

The Darrow Scholarship

Greg — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:00:06 +0000

After Anita was accepted to the University of Michigan Law School in fall of 1995, she was invited to submit an application for the prestigous Darrow Scholarship. Here is how the school describes it:

Of all the merit scholarships awarded by the University of Michigan Law School, the Darrow is the apogee. The award of a [...]

Why do you want to go to law school?

Greg — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:23:45 +0000

I finally found this essay! One of the best things Anta ever wrote, I thought. Dated October 5, 1995, this was an essay answering the question “Why do you want to go to law school?” I remember she sent it to the University of Michigan – and helped win her a full scholarship.

Racism. It is [...]