Personal Empowerment | Tyra Garlington

Black History Month: Stories that need telling with guest Colonel Arthur Nick Nicolson Retired, and current president of the Mt.Olive Cemetery Historical Preservation Society

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. That September, the Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson, and the prominent minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), an organization dedicated to researching and promoting achievements by black Americans and other peoples of African descent. By the late 1960s, thanks in part to the Civil Rights Movement and a growing awareness of black identity, Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month on many college campuses. President Gerald……
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Mt Olive Cemetery Historical Preservation Society honors the memory of African Americans in Clarksville, Tennessee whose struggle was real!

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Today has become a testing time and a time of self-evaluation. This is also a time to recognize that we are a journey, not a destination. This is a time to elevate voices of hope and reimagine what is essential. This is a time to remember who we are today; what we can do comes with a price. And we must remember those who paid for it when we could not or did not ask. Sometimes, we need help remembering that their struggle was real. “Until today, you may have misunderstood death. You may have been grieving or mourning the……
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Black History Month Salutes CAF Red Tail Squadron Leader Bill Shepard.

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

The mission of the Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron is to educate people of all ages about the Tuskegee Airmen, so their strength of character and ability to triumph over adversity may serve as a means to inspire others to rise above obstacles in their own lives and achieve their goals. Woven throughout their outreach program, the group’s Six Guiding Principles – Aim High, Believe In Yourself, Use Your Brain, Be Ready To Go, Never Quit, and Expect to Win – were developed alongside documented original Tuskegee Airmen to inspire students to rise above their obstacles. PRESS RELEASE –……
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Black History Month salutes “Love in Action” with the late Congressman John Lewis and NPR’s Krista Tippett

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

First Corinthians 13: 4-8 says, “Love is patient and kind; Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. … Love never ends”. Wikipedia says, “Love is considered to be a positive and negative: with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as “the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”; and its vice representing human moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, and egotism, Author Glennon Doyle Melton expresses Love as a message from God, and I quote: ……
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RIGHT- ON -TIME REWIND: Moments of Mindfulness, An audio meditation experience with Sherrell Moore-Tucker

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

During the pandemic, have you been feeling intimate with physical, mental, and emotional uncertainty and unrest? It seems that everything that can be shaken is shaking, where angry noise appears to be drowning out laughter and love. I found I have been grieving the loss of power over my thoughts, my movements, my expectations, my finances, my future, my everything. So, I created Moments of Mindfulness as an emotional and spiritual band-aide for the hurt we are collectively feeling. All of us at the table have permission to find the stillness that allows authenticity and vulnerability to rise above the noise. We are going……
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Trauma that does not go away: the loss of a child and a brother featuring the David Owens family.

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Here in the United States, we began to see evidence of the unprecedented challenge to our healthcare systems and economy and wonder if our democracy would be strong enough to withstand the attacks on our constitution. Globally, our world has been challenged in a way it had not been for over 100 years. An invisible enemy has invaded our privacy, routines, expectations, and hopes. Some of you, like me, have felt mental and emotional uncertainty and unrest. Everything that could be shaken is now shaking, where noise, angry noise, drowns laughter and love. And yet, a look behind this external……
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NEW YEAR MOMENTS OF MINDFULNESS featuring Tyra G

Posted on December 31, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

What’s so special about celebrating the New Year? “Why does the start of the new year carry such special symbolism? And why is its celebration so common worldwide, as it has been for at least as long as there have been calendars? Behavior this universal must indeed be tied to something fundamental in the human animal, something profoundly meaningful and essential, given all the energy and resources we invest not just in the celebration but also in our efforts to make good on a fresh set of resolutions, even though we mostly fail to keep them. It’s fascinating to realize……
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REWIND: Unwrapping his gift of music featuring vocalist Mr. Everett Greene.

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

A 2018 blog written by musicians who declare they believe in music says, “Music is simply a very special language that everyone understands. There is no feeling that cannot be described and transported through music. It preserves memories for eternity and turns dreams into reality. It caresses the soul or screams unmistakably. Music conquers fear, dries tears, and gives courage and strength. It is the safe and expressive home of our emotions – with all facets between joy and pain, irrepressible lust for life, and thoughtfulness. Music can turn enemies into friends and cross borders. It can ensure that the……
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Legacy is for the living with father and son Courtney and Asa Nero

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Ray Bradbury, in Fahrenheit 451, says, “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child, a book, a painting, a house, a wall built, or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way, so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. Dara Horn says. “Every person has a legacy. You may not know your impact, and it may not be something you can write on your tombstone, but every person impacts this world.”……
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“THIS IS US” featuring Cape Cod Entrepreneur Sandy Wycoff.

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Life will accommodate you in any way that you choose. It is always listening to the silent requests of your heart and mind. It is always surveying the landscape of your heart, gathering the bits and pieces of the emotions buried there. Life can be an open book to learn about great mysteries and wonders. It can also be a mysterious and frightening pit you fear to tread. Or it can be a basket into which you can place your treasures and carry abundant blessings. Until today, you may not have realized that life answers your requests. You may not……
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