Your roots do not determine your reach | Greg Cannon | TEDxWilmingtonSalon

In early fall of 1972, I was 12 years old, sitting in a pecan grove in South Georgia with tears streaming down my face and a dead bird in my hands. How many of us have had a moment, a crystallizing moment where we realize something fundamental about ourselves and the world around us. a moment that could have defined you that you would tell a story of who you are and what you deserve based on that event.Life is challenging and for me challenges in my early childhood could have defined me. You see, I was that ...