Felicia Conn2

“The Porch”

What I remember most about my grandma Gladys Dawson (1923-1998) is sitting on her porch every summer and my mama would go buy peas and bushels of corn from the farmers market and we would sit on her porch and we would shuck the corn and we would shell the peas and we would just sit there and she would talk about life. She would talk about the people walking by and things that people were doing. Basically gossiping, but in the same way of gossiping, she was telling me things I shouldn’t do as I got older. I didn’t realize the wisdom that she was giving me in such a subtle way. Just sitting there on that front porch every summer, shelling peas and shucking corn. Words of wisdom for growing up as a young lady. To be seen and not heard as I enter a room. Also to keep my virginity as long as I can because fast girls walk around and they get talked about. She just told me how to be strong and how to be a strong woman and I think that’s what’s helped me break through and battle cancer because I think about my grandmother and words of wisdom that she’s told me or gave me and just being an entrepreneur.  All of that came from my grandma just sitting on that porch and spending life down in Thomaston, Georgia every summer  to get away from Atlanta and the hustle and bustle. I love her to this day and I wish she was here.