TEXARKANA MAGAZINE
The truth is, our first car isn’t just transportation. It is transition. It’s the moment you stop being a passenger in your own life. It is freedom, yes, but also fear— sooo much fear! Because now you can go wherever you want… which means you have to decide where that is. And that’s scary. I used to hate change. I would grip the familiar like a steering wheel on black ice, pretending if I just held on tight enough, I wouldn’t crash. But life never really works like that. Change comes whether or not we want it. Sometimes softly, sometimes with a crunch of metal and a call to your insurance agent. Maybe Blue Ivy saw the first cracks in who I was trying to be. Maybe Black Beauty
watched me step into my own. And maybe Kandi is the one riding with me now, as I finally live out loud, fully and freely as God intended me to be. I hope you remember your first car. I hope you feel that flutter in your stomach again. The mix of nerves and thrill. I hope
learned, it’s that a dead end is never really a dead end. You can always turn around. The road may not always be smooth, but there is always a next destination. And by the grace of Jesus (because it definitely ain’t my driving skills)… I have always had a car to get me there!
you remember the songs you screamed, the people you loved, the late nights, the wrong turns, and the growing pains. Because if there is one thing I have
August 2 Pol Care Inc. Backpack Giveaway Texarkana College 10 am-1 pm August 5 & 7 Flower Power Planters TRAHC’s ArtSpace 6-8 pm August 5 Art Journaling TRAHC’s ArtSpace 6-8 pm August 5 & 19
August 7-9 Hope Watermelon Festival Hope Fair Park 11 am August 11, 13, & 15
Poetry Bootcamp TRAHC’s ArtSpace 5:30-7 pm August 14 & 28
Free Pound Classes Southwest Center 9 am August 17 A Night of Amazement with Ben Jackson First Baptist Church 6 pm August 23 Yellow Petal Bike Ride Spring Lake Park 6:30 pm August 30 Boggy Creek Monster Mingle
August 1 Jackson James Band Live Fat Jacks Oyster and Sports Bar 8 pm August 2
August 9 Chase the Night Whiskey River Country 10 pm August 15, 22, & 29 Graham Wincher Band Redbone Magic Brewing Company 7:30 pm August 16 David Lewis Whiskey River Country 11 pm August 29 Traveler & Bluebird-Chris Stapleton & Miranda
Free Barre Classes Southwest Center 9 am August 6 Music & Moves TRAHC’s ArtSpace 10-10:30 am August 7 Watercolor Pet Workshop TRAHC’s ArtSpace 6-8 pm August 7 Temple Memorial Drawdown & Casino Night Elks Lodge 6 pm
Twenty One 48 Redbone Magic Brewing Company 7:30 pm August 8 & 9 Calvin Richardson
Texarkana Arkansas Convention Center 7 pm August 9 Patrick Lamb Hope Watermelon Festival 7 pm
502 North Monster Expressway, Fouke 10 am-6 pm
Lambert Tribute Fat Jacks Oyster and Sports Bar 7 pm
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