Book Excerpts Archives - Otis Lee

A Father’s Day Tribute

Otis Lee, Jr. — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:33:31 +0000

“Red” they called him fondly, was raised in southern Georgia. One of seven children raised by a widowed mother. He knew poverty, but not hunger; knew deprivation but did not lack for love and affection. He experienced loss, but not the loss of hope, pain but not despair. His energy for triumph over adversity was boundless, and he reinsured that his later life would not reflect his humble roots.

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The Door Of No Return

Otis Lee, Jr. — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:09:18 +0000

When I was a kid growing up in Richmond, Virginia between 1953 and 1960, I lived in a middle class neighborhood of single family two story, three and four bedroom homes, some of frame, painted white, others with various types of siding, each built on half acre lots with front yards providing aesthetic balance, and back yards large and deep enough for the neighborhood kids to romp, wrestle, play hide and seek, and dwell in the kid’s world of imagination. In keeping with Southern tradition, each house on the block had long front porches for lazy sitting on summer mornings with a coffee royal; in the afternoon with ice tea; and in the evening with a Jack Daniels. Some houses had garages in the rear of the backyard which sat adjacent to an alley way that ran parallel with the wide paved street in front of the houses.

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Excerpt, From South Boston To Cambridge

Otis Lee, Jr. — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 19:16:45 +0000

Bring Me All Of Your Dreams You Dreamer: Languidly, the lion roams the jungle of his environment looking for prey. Awakened from his somnolence, hunger motivates his restlessness. To satisfy this basic need, he only wants to attack prey that he knows and feels that he can subdue, after all, he does not want to work but so hard.

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