Write Your Roots by K. Schloss
" WRITE YOUR ROOTS" by K. Schloss People are always in search of their origin, their roots. My fondest memories are of my dad sitting smoking a cigarette, sometimes a funny little white one, rattling off stories from his childhood and on rare occasion a tidbit about his experience in the U.S. Airforce. I remember myself and my cousin Melissa sitting on the floor intently listening to him recall things he went through growing up in Kingstree, South Carolina. How he and the family picked cotton, and in order to yield the most money from their pickings he would pee in the middle of the bale so it would add weight onto the scale. As a child I listened to my father explain how he invented a strategy, or shall we be frank and call it a hustle, in order to earn a few more coins for the family to receive at the end of the season. The depth of my father's stories was always lost on my youthful mind however, I was always in awe of him and all he knew how to do and the knowledge h...