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100 Pieces of Sun Diary of a Potted Plant A young boy skipping school because of a pretty girl he fancies. Two grandmothers who rule the roost. Biting a dog to make a point. _The delight of moving to a five-bedroom house from a one-bedroom apartment. A mother's sacrifice of wearing torn panty hose so her girls can wear new ones. These stories and more make up the 100 vignettes that provide a snapshot of the author's life from her humble roots growing up in Alabama in the 1950s to the family move to Ohio, life with four sisters, her high school years and graduating from Sarah Lawrence College. Studying at the University of Ghana in West Africa her junior year made a lasting impression on longtime educator Connie Kennedy Calloway. Connie, the first in her family to have multiple college degrees, shares memories of church, battling segregation and racism, teenage parties, health challenges and the instilled values of her close-knit African-American family: responsibility, integrity, freedom, justice and Christian ideals. 100 Pieces of Sun: Diary of a Potted Plant is a humorous-and sometimes poignant- message about the ability to laugh at life even as you reach for the future. Sometimes you can anticipate life's twists and turns, especially with God's help, but sometimes you must make your own way, reaching for your heart's desire instead of watching the world go by like a simple potted plant. AUTHOR BIO Connie Kennedy Calloway has been an educator for more than 30 years, including serving as superintendent of schools in three states. She earned a doctorate from Ohio University in Athens, a master's degree from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. She is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and was one of the _ rst women inducted into Phi Delta Kappa International, Harvard Graduate School of Education. The Alabama native has been recognized as a Crain's Business Woman, Top Ten Influential Woman of the Year and Congressional Medal recipient for National Educational Leader of the Year. Journalist Dan Rather made a documentary on her work to rebuild a large urban school system, and she presented a research paper at an international educational forum in England on changing a failing urban school district into one that had academic successes. The new writer is passionate about her family: Sisters Mary and Myra, daughter Precious and son Sherman, as well as teaching adult Bible study, quilting, world travel, cooking, and her book club.… (plus d'informations)
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One Hundred Pieces of Sun: Diary of a Potted Plant is really three books in one: (1) a social history of the American Deep South and northern Rust Belt in the 1950s and 1960s, (2) an autobiography of C.L. Kennedy’s childhood and youth, and (3) a travelogue through Africa during the 1970-71 academic year.
Remarkably, the author weaves these disparate subjects into a unified whole. Simply put, One Hundred Pieces of Sun is the freshest, most unique memoir I have ever read, charting a trajectory from the author’s childhood in Jim Crow Alabama and a not-exactly-equal-rights northern industrial city, to Sarah Lawrence College, and ending with her junior year abroad at the University of Ghana, followed by travels through most of the continent using only local transportation. (Yes, her mother threw a fit when Kennedy first told her about her plans.)
The marvelous writing is infused Kennedy’s personality – strong, highly opinionated, but always honest and with an eye for the humor in life. Here, for the benefit of prospective readers, are three excerpts to give an idea of the book’s historical and emotional range:
1) Traveling by train from Alabama to Ohio in 1956: “Before the trip North, Brenda [the author’s sister] and I were repeatedly coached, drilled, and cautioned not to say anything to any white person, no matter what they said, did, or called us…We were rehearsed in acceptable docile and self-effacing ways to respond if it became absolutely necessary to engage in eye-contact or communication with a stranger” (p. 19-20).
2) Using the public library in Ohio: “Laws prohibited Blacks from checking out public library books and from entering the front door of the public library. Our parents took us to the library just as they took us to church…They showed us the way to carry and conduct ourselves with integrity, dignity, and pride, and they always reminded us that we were responsible for leaving a legacy, adding something to posterity, and never shaming the race” (p. 81).
3) Discovering a possible origin of her ancestors (or at least her own spiritual homeland) through music: “In Mali, I was introduced to the cora, a bowl-shaped musical instrument that is made either from dried gourds with leather chords extending along an attached long handle or a flat wooden box enhanced with wood or metal picks held in place along the bottom and spaced along the top…Music from Mali featuring the cora soothes my very soul. Much to my surprise, many times I have felt that Mali was my home place, the country of my ancestors” (p. 211).
The author’s understanding of the violence and injustice blacks (in both Old and New Worlds) have suffered at the hands of whites is never far removed in the text, but Kennedy’s gratitude and enthusiasm for life ensure that her lessons are always delivered with a light touch. Another constant in the book, especially at critical moments, but never sermonized about, is her deep Christian faith instilled by her parents.
Although not a work of fiction, it does not seem inappropriate to call One Hundred Pieces of Sun a Bildungsroman, as it completely convincingly tells the story of the coming of age of a highly sensitive and intelligent young woman. Kennedy has written a book that engages with and invites the reader to see the world through her eyes. And that, I think, is one of the best things any book can do for us.
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100 Pieces of Sun Diary of a Potted Plant A young boy skipping school because of a pretty girl he fancies. Two grandmothers who rule the roost. Biting a dog to make a point. _The delight of moving to a five-bedroom house from a one-bedroom apartment. A mother's sacrifice of wearing torn panty hose so her girls can wear new ones. These stories and more make up the 100 vignettes that provide a snapshot of the author's life from her humble roots growing up in Alabama in the 1950s to the family move to Ohio, life with four sisters, her high school years and graduating from Sarah Lawrence College. Studying at the University of Ghana in West Africa her junior year made a lasting impression on longtime educator Connie Kennedy Calloway. Connie, the first in her family to have multiple college degrees, shares memories of church, battling segregation and racism, teenage parties, health challenges and the instilled values of her close-knit African-American family: responsibility, integrity, freedom, justice and Christian ideals. 100 Pieces of Sun: Diary of a Potted Plant is a humorous-and sometimes poignant- message about the ability to laugh at life even as you reach for the future. Sometimes you can anticipate life's twists and turns, especially with God's help, but sometimes you must make your own way, reaching for your heart's desire instead of watching the world go by like a simple potted plant. AUTHOR BIO Connie Kennedy Calloway has been an educator for more than 30 years, including serving as superintendent of schools in three states. She earned a doctorate from Ohio University in Athens, a master's degree from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. She is a member of Kappa Delta Pi and was one of the _ rst women inducted into Phi Delta Kappa International, Harvard Graduate School of Education. The Alabama native has been recognized as a Crain's Business Woman, Top Ten Influential Woman of the Year and Congressional Medal recipient for National Educational Leader of the Year. Journalist Dan Rather made a documentary on her work to rebuild a large urban school system, and she presented a research paper at an international educational forum in England on changing a failing urban school district into one that had academic successes. The new writer is passionate about her family: Sisters Mary and Myra, daughter Precious and son Sherman, as well as teaching adult Bible study, quilting, world travel, cooking, and her book club.
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Remarkably, the author weaves these disparate subjects into a unified whole.
Simply put, One Hundred Pieces of Sun is the freshest, most unique memoir I have ever read, charting a trajectory from the author’s childhood in Jim Crow Alabama and a not-exactly-equal-rights northern industrial city, to Sarah Lawrence College, and ending with her junior year abroad at the University of Ghana, followed by travels through most of the continent using only local transportation. (Yes, her mother threw a fit when Kennedy first told her about her plans.)
The marvelous writing is infused Kennedy’s personality – strong, highly opinionated, but always honest and with an eye for the humor in life. Here, for the benefit of prospective readers, are three excerpts to give an idea of the book’s historical and emotional range:
1) Traveling by train from Alabama to Ohio in 1956:
“Before the trip North, Brenda [the author’s sister] and I were repeatedly coached, drilled, and cautioned not to say anything to any white person, no matter what they said, did, or called us…We were rehearsed in acceptable docile and self-effacing ways to respond if it became absolutely necessary to engage in eye-contact or communication with a stranger” (p. 19-20).
2) Using the public library in Ohio:
“Laws prohibited Blacks from checking out public library books and from entering the front door of the public library. Our parents took us to the library just as they took us to church…They showed us the way to carry and conduct ourselves with integrity, dignity, and pride, and they always reminded us that we were responsible for leaving a legacy, adding something to posterity, and never shaming the race” (p. 81).
3) Discovering a possible origin of her ancestors (or at least her own spiritual homeland) through music:
“In Mali, I was introduced to the cora, a bowl-shaped musical instrument that is made either from dried gourds with leather chords extending along an attached long handle or a flat wooden box enhanced with wood or metal picks held in place along the bottom and spaced along the top…Music from Mali featuring the cora soothes my very soul. Much to my surprise, many times I have felt that Mali was my home place, the country of my ancestors” (p. 211).
The author’s understanding of the violence and injustice blacks (in both Old and New Worlds) have suffered at the hands of whites is never far removed in the text, but Kennedy’s gratitude and enthusiasm for life ensure that her lessons are always delivered with a light touch. Another constant in the book, especially at critical moments, but never sermonized about, is her deep Christian faith instilled by her parents.
Although not a work of fiction, it does not seem inappropriate to call One Hundred Pieces of Sun a Bildungsroman, as it completely convincingly tells the story of the coming of age of a highly sensitive and intelligent young woman. Kennedy has written a book that engages with and invites the reader to see the world through her eyes. And that, I think, is one of the best things any book can do for us.
Published in Regent University Library Link, December 16, 2016
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