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In 2010, renowned songwriter, Tom Douglas, was touched by igbok in a way that made him immediately put pen to paper and express the word through song. Tom is one of the finest when it comes to the craft of writing a song. He takes ordinary thoughts and experiences of the common man and weaves …

I smile looking at this picture of David and I standing with our “igbok” shirts. Our smiles in the picture, and even the grin on my face looking at it have much to do with where we are standing…in one of the most difficult, hard, hopeless places on the planet – How does one say …

After “igbok” came to be, I did an art exhibition in Nashville, Atlanta and Charlotte based on that word alone. I wanted to visually interpret what it meant to me. There was one painting that said it all. “igbok”. After the fall of mankind, the world fell into darkness, but in that darkness we weren’t …

Hope recognizes that things are not the way we wish or want or believe things “ought” to be. In this, it seems to me that “hope” is utterly realistic and honest. Brutally so. Hope does not bury its head in the sand. Hope carries no scent of denial or ignorance. Hope looks at what is …

When the plane took off it was 32 degrees and snow was on the ground. When the plane landed, it was 71 degrees and sunshine. Last month I had the opportunity to spend two days in Phoenix Arizona. While we are scraping frost off our windows here in Middle Tennessee, they are in the middle …

it’s gonna be o.k. When a child skins a knee or gets their feelings hurt; when the medical tests aren’t good; when fear rolls in like a storm and anxiety hovers like a fog; when dreams die and hope seems to evaporate; when life isn’t going the way we hoped it would — aren’t these …

Nope. You won’t find it in your dictionary. It’s less a word than an acronym. On the order of NATO or IRA or FAQ, the letters pronounced as a word are actually the initial letters of more familiar words. You pronounce this one to rhyme with pig-lock or big-block. Now you’ve got it: ig’-bok. And …