ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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As this living book starts to be sung,
I thank the Power that I pray sings it:
Holy Spirit, Creator,
my God, the One...
Thank you for daily finding this lost sheep,
this "afflicted, storm-tossed,
not-comforted" one.

I thank the family that provided
a loving, caring vehicle:
my mom and dad, Bailey and Soapy,
with brother Randy, sister Gaye,
grandparents Mary, Pop. Gackie, Sammy, 
and all branches of the tree
down the trunk 
to first African ancestry.
Thank you!

I thank the other families
God gave to me:
beloved Freddy and all his people, 
daughters Bailey and Maya.
precious GIFTS of GRACE and MERCY.
I thank my Spirit family:
too many to name
and myriads of nameless...
who transmitted a spark
sustained a chain 
from Melchizedek,
to Yeshua,
to Mary of Magdala, 
to millions of ignited ones...
down the millennia
to Henrietta Sieberling, 
Ebby Thatcher,
Anne Smith, 
Bill and Bob,
Jane Grey, Richard the Poet,
Joe Hawk, 
Alma Clarke... thank you.
And thank you to the all those
people still living
who listen, pray, meditate, 
read until they understand,
share, emPower, accompany.
There are too many to name
and myriads of nameless
each one
in the infinite set of points
equidistant from 
that central Light
One Mystical Body of the Hamashiach. 

INTRODUCTION 
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​Freddy's Ark is a place and a story
located at 1656 North Tonti
7th Ward, New Orleans
the Ark found us
March of 2023
by the address,
its square footage said,
"look at me!"
sixteen 56...
my birth year is nineteen 56...
in the afternoon at four 56
square footage 1008 ...
my birth day 10/08.
People ask, "How'd you notice?"
That's part of the big trajectory:
when young,
a spirit visitor came to me
regularly.
named "the Numbers Lady"
who got my attention
by raising the price of
my beloved duo of oreos
and 8oz milk...
other kids' cost
stayed the same at a quarter
but mine? 
ten, then a hundred, then a million, 
"Do you know how much that is?"
"Do you know how far away the stars are?"
"Do you know how much infinity is?"
night after night
and one night
terrified I cried,
mom, don't leave!
the Numbers Lady is coming."
She said, "Tell her to go away."
And I did,
"Go away.
Go away!"
And she did. 
but numbers remained. 
and later in life was nicknamed
"The Numbers Lady" as mathematics specialist...
so God's gift of the Ark flowed
from those oreos
where we meet frequently;
12 Step Meetings,
Rowdy Beauty Bible Studies,
Book Study Groups,
one-on-ones,
late night, early morning gatherings... 
​crushed we enter to heal, get free, give!

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THE TABERNACLE
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