The Consummate Transitioner Blog

Speech: What Is Your Passionate Gift?

The speech: What is Your Passionate Gift? (featuring the debut of the poem “I Won’t Tear You Down”) was given at the Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) Champion’s Breakfast, October 3, 2019, at the Peninsula Workforce Development Center, in...

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I Won’t Tear You Down

The Rhymist Gift presents: I Won’t Tear You Down  Copyright: Curtis D. Wray, October 2018, Registration Number - TXu 2-183-284, All Rights Reserved.  (A call for unity, action, and universal inspiration as Americans. We should find someone to inspire.) Imagine that...

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Take it Extremely Personal: Your Vote

The RHYMIST GIFT presents: Take It Extremely Personal: Your Vote Copyright: Curtis D. Wray, 9/2019, Registration Number - TXu 2-183-284, All Rights Reserved. Behind the curtain, I spiritedly went. For it is now my chance to silently vent. For what you thought is what...

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The Strategic Level of War

United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico Virginia – October 1995 The following is a true story. The morning of October 25, 1995, I was a student at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia.  I went to the...

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Speech: Life is a Race

Prologue In May 2018, I was walking in the conference room section of the Peninsula Workforce Development Center (PWDC), at Thomas Nelson Community College.  I was waved down by Dr. Val Livingston, who was the program director for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

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