Author: Chasing Your Dreams While Following a Band

She Rather

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She rather watch a sunrise than a sunset

Immersed in unpopular palettes is when she achieves her best

She rather grind than press play

Mounted along streams of action is where she takes names

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I Just Want to Build People Up

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“Encourage their confidence till it reaches the stars”

I just wanna build people up

Like my Mama taught me when I was a child

Encourage their confidence till it reaches the stars

They feel no shame from their brokenness or scars

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The Fanny Poem

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I want to get eye level with your bottom

For it is the cutest peach I’ve ever seen

Rest my head against its bubbliness

Make it a nest that I refuse to leave

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The Female Effect

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Eyes drenched in green

Successful in their thirst for a praise

Drop dead looks

She’s music to the soul

Her legs will take you to the Milky Way

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Dream Walking

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Let’s crash the fortune that ceases to impress

Can you feel me there?

Just like the vibration of a drum

I’ve been breathing down your neck for hours

Let me slip in like a token

Oh, the things I would do for your love

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Kipp & Barbara’s Journey to Higher Ground

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“Relationships bring you joy. They give you motivation. We are not made to be alone…”

“I’ve known God quite a bit of my life… It’s just accepting God as part of my life.” Barbara Raper, one of Work Life’s most recent graduates, reveals her gratitude for her relationship with God, the hardships she’s crossed to fully witness and grasp the pure joy and love that come with following our Father, and how Faith is the substance of all things good. Since 2012, the very first time that Barbara met Grant Croley and Allen Murdock at Long Hollow Baptist Church, Project Connect was welcoming Barbara in with open arms.

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Project Connect Nashville’s Partnership with Radio Station “The Fish”

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If you are driving through town and happen to spot either eye-catching billboards or a company vehicle (a really cool decked out van we might add,) zipping around the Nashville neighborhoods sporting PCN’s familiar logo, do not be surprised! We are thrilled to announce our new and exciting partnership with one of Nashville’s very own radio stations – 94 FM “The Fish.”

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A Volunteer’s Perspective

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Everybody could use a little help right now…

“It surpassed my expectations. This was a source of energy and rejuvenation. I still come… It continues with the balance, it’s following through, and it’s continuing to meet and exceed my expectations every time.” – Angie (Work Life Graduate of 2020.) 

Having been involved with Project Connect Nashville for one year now, I find myself feeling the similar type of love and digesting the same sort of gratitude that Angie expressed in our interview together.

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One In The Same

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“We are one in the same”

The sun unravels its beams

Shining with charisma & flair

“Hello my gorgeous friends”

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Miss Anne

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“If I could help somebody, then my livings not in vain.”

“She’s one of them, I recall, an old warrior. And there ain’t too many around. I respect my elder, and I appreciate them very much.” Ollie McCaskill, a dear friend and lending neighbor of 11 years, portrays the kindhearted, genuine, and sincere soul that is known around the North Nashville block today as “Miss Anne.” A devoted woman of religion, passing it forward, connection and community, Miss Anne has not missed a beat since her move to the neighborhood 40 years ago.

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