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Deer Story
From Earnest Wilson . . . in collaboration with Paul Wilson, Beverly Wilson & My daddy (called "Cap" in later years 'cause he always wore one - and probably why I have so many) used to have some very "interesting" exchanges with my Mother whenever the "Grampa Handy killed a deer with his bare hands" story came up (or he brought up). He always teasingly (and quite colorfully) claimed that the deer was probably just a little doe that had unfortunately wandered away from its mother and into the fields where Grampa was working. Cap also consistently joked and would often wager that there was probably something in those "bare hands".....like a big rock or a tree limb! As an early teen, I used to re-tell Grampa's story to my friends (who always had what I would later call that "one raised eyebrow look" on their faces). Cap's PG-13 version may have been contrived and short on credibility.....but it always got the most laughs! Daddy Yo also said that his papa and Uncle Long Arm were out hunting for food. They ran out of bullets so they had to use their bare hands. They ran upon the first deer and his papa took him out with his fist. Then they came across a second one that had big antlers. And, this one ran both of them up a tree, cause he was not having nobody take him out for supper. "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." Marcus Garvey. |
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A Synopsis of the name "Elihu"What's In A Name? From Andrea Wren Smith
Elihu is the name of several characters in the Old Testament, including one of the comforters of Job. Elihu is masculine in gender. It means "my God is YAHWEH" in Hebrew. In Job, Elihu discusses divine providence, which he insists are full of wisdom and mercy, that the righteous have their share of prosperity in this life, that God is supreme and that it becomes us to acknowledge and submit to that supremacy since "the Creator wisely rules the world he made." The Turkish derivative of "Handy" is "Hande", and it means "to smile". Elmore can be broken into two parts: "El" a Semitic word meaning "God" perhaps originally derived from a root meaning "power". It is masculine in gender and is used in Near Eastern culture. It was used by the Hebrews to refer to Yahweh. And "More" or the Hebrew derivative "Maor"; pronunciation is the same. In Hebrew, the word "maor" means "light". |