Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside
Live Your Legacy Now
Chapter One
The Foundation of Legacy Living:
How It All Began
Make yourself useful.
Mildred McEwen
My father grew up in the small, racially segregated town of
Oxford, Mississippi, where his mother spent each spring and fall
working with dozens of other men and women planting and
harvesting cotton. She often worked from sunrise until sundown.
My father wished his mother didn't have to work so hard, and
he often told her so. At the end of each day, my father would
look into his mother's eyes and say, "Someday, I'm going to live
in a house in town, a house with running water." Looking at him
with tired, loving eyes, my grandmother would smile and say, "Oh,
Junior, you're always dreaming."
My father would just grin. "You'll see, Mama. Someday we'll
have our own house, and someday I'm going to go to college, too!"
He dreamed not only of going to college, but also of designing
and building a house of his very own. His dreams were also fueled
by his love of rea ... read full excerpt from Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside: Live Your Legacy Now ebook
