In reading this book, Who Owns the Ice House?, I came across this paragraph that helped me to realize just a little bit about the working mentality of some people and communities. The section between the blue lines basically says that the people's livelihood were solely based on hard work and labor...

A few days ago, I was driving in my neighborhood wondering how is it that I can connect to an audience if  I have not gone through some of the degrees of struggles that they may have experienced. 

In this moment, I thought back through my childhood and realized that even though my circumstances...