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The speaker mentioned reading a book about a man named George Dawson, who was born to former slaves in Texas in the late 1800s and lived to be 103. A story within the book about being asked 'How are you?' highlighted the power of awareness and acknowledging experience.
Read a book a little while ago about a man named George Dawson.
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The speaker mentioned reading a book about a man named George Dawson, who was born to former slaves in Texas in the late 1800s and lived to be 103. A story within the book about being asked 'How are you?' highlighted the power of awareness and acknowledging experience.
Read a book a little while ago about a man named George Dawson.
He was born in Texas in the late 1800s, the parents who were former slaves. He lived to be 103, seeing the turn of two centuries.
There was one story in the book that really touched me about the power of awareness and acknowledging our experience when he was about 12 his family sent him off to work as a farmhand for a white family.
She turned to him and said, how are you? The question startled him. No one had asked him that for so long. He didn't know how to respond.