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The Whole Person Concept (Meets the Need)
Completion Date: August 20, 2023 THE WHOLE PERSON CONCEPT - A VISION FOR NEED-BASED CUSTOMIZED SERVICES AND TRANSITIONS IN RAPID RESPONSE SERVICE DELIVERY DISCLAIMER This blog is written with the positive intent and motivation to promote new ideas and positive change...
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...
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...
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...
Is the Navy on the Right Course and Speed for the 21st Century?
In 1998, I retired from the United States Navy after a 21 plus year career. During my career, I had seen the Navy from the standpoint of an enlisted man and a commissioned officer. And, equally, I had seen the Navy from the cruiser/destroyer ship approach and mindset...
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...
The 2EX Concept in Rapid Response Service Delivery
Think Expeditious...Become Expeditionary Time, Speed, Distance, Maneuver, Movement - (T x S = D) (D / S = T) (D / T = S) March 2020 This blog is written with the positive intent and motivation to promote ideas and/or a concepts based upon experiences while conducting...
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...
Speech: The Departure… For Those Who Deploy
Prologue I had the opportunity to read the poem “The Departure...For Those Who Deploy” at a Women’s Veterans Conference, sponsored by the Virginia Employment Commission, in Hampton Virginia on Nov. 8, 2018. It was the first time it had been read publicly. I had...
Culminating Points of Engagement and Success
The Present If you were to look up the word culminate, you would find that it means…to reach a point of highest development. This is exactly what happened on June 25, 2017, at the Peninsula Workforce Development Center, in Hampton, Virginia, at a summit...