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Sunday was always a great day for us.  It meant that the work on the farm would stop for a day and we could be children.  The highlight of the day was the cover dish lunch after church once a month.  After a great meal of crispy fried chicken, dumplings and corn on the cob with homemade biscuits, we would organize a soft ballgame to top it off.  For a few hours, we would be heroes of the diamond.  If by chance you hit a home run you would be a legend for a day.

My favorite part of Sunday was when we got back home.  My cousins and I would run down the road to a little white church and crawl underneath the floorboards.  The church had the first live band that I ever heard.  They played this amazing music with a piano player, bass player, guitarist and drummer.  The band and the choir created music that made you stand up and sing, clap your hands and dance.  The ladies would actually dance down the aisles with their hands held high in the air.  You could feel the floorboards vibrating and the thumping of the bass.  It was a sound of rejoicing and celebration.

I fell in love with the music from the little white church and played blues and gospel-tinged rock for many years later in life.  It is amazing how a little band playing in a church down an old dirt road could inspire you to have a lifelong love for gospel music.  I always called it spirit music because that’s where it came from.

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I will never forget that amazing heart-stopping music from the little white church.  Music was always a big part of my life.  Growing up on the farm we had a small radio and would listen to the Louisiana Hayride and the Grand Ole Opry, and as I got older, I listened to late night radio from Jacksonville, Florida, and blues out of Texas.  Even today I still love real old-time Gospel music coming from a little white church.

Larry Tyler
Larry Tyler
Awaken the possibilities … then unleash them. After 55 years of successful retail management, I have returned to my passion of writing. I write Poetry, Storytelling, and Short Stories. As a child, I grew up on front porch storytelling. I would sit and listen to my Dad and his brothers tell these great stories that were captivating, and I always wanted to hear more. I wanted to experience the things they talked about. I started writing at a young age and reading everything I could get my hands on. At twelve years old I started a storytelling group and several of my friends became writers or poets. At 16 I hopped box cars and worked the tobacco fields, orange groves, picked cotton, and spent many nights around a campfire listing to life stories. Someone once asked me why I wrote. It consumes an amazing amount of time and I assure you it is not going to make me rich. I write so that my children can touch and feel my words telling of the ones that came before us and the stories they told me. These are the chronicles of our family and even though they come from my childhood memories and are deeply rooted in a child’s remembrance at least they may feel what it was like in the time before them and cherish the things the elders left behind. I am a Columnist & Featured Contributor, BIZCATALYST360 and I have The Writers Café, a group on LinkedIn that features Poets, Writers, Artists, Photographers, and Musicians . On Facebook I have two groups and one page; Dirt Road Storytelling, From Abandoned To Rescue Dogs And Cats, and About Life, Love And Living. As writers, it is true that we honestly do not know what we hold within us until we unleash it. When our words inspire others only then will inspiration return to the writer. I will spend my twilight years in search of the next story, the next poem, and the next image. I will take the time to enjoy my Wife, our Dogs, and Cats, and our amazing new home and I will always find the time to walk down a dirt road I truly hope is that I never have to read another book on Leadership, be on a conference call or see another plan o gram as these were the tool for what I did in life and not about who I am.

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6 CONVERSATIONS

  1. Yep, you got me there. Great story!. Think the thing I remember best was my Aunt Jo’s fried chicken. I’m sorry you had to leave the country because your heart was meant to stay. Then again, experience is the mother of invention; in our lives as well.

  2. Memories are that mystical, magical, wonderful part of our lives and Thank You Larry for sharing your memories.

    Yes, indeed music is something that can connect us to almost all people across the world, just like a smile and perhaps a knack for cooking. I too have memories of playing music in churches in my youth and then on the many mission fields across the globe. With my faithful guitar, my accordion and my saxophone, from the tribes in the Amazon right up to concerts in the Royal Albert Hall.. these are memories that will last me my lifetime. Creating memories is a priceless gift.

    Bob Dylan once said, “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”

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