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They were at a soccer game when something shifted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ayanna Dowell’s son, Dash, had asked for money for snacks at the concession stand. She pointed him toward the truck, maybe 10 feet away. Before he got there, he turned back around.<\/p>\n

\u201cMama, where did you say to get the money from?\u201d<\/p>\n

That moment, Ayanna said, was the one that made it real.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just things that he doesn\u2019t want to do,\u201d she said. \u201cThis was something he wanted, and he still forgot that quick. I realized, okay, he\u2019s not playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result of that realization, and years of work that followed, is Dash Gets It Done<\/em>, a children\u2019s book she self-published in March.<\/p>\n

It sold out its first 50 copies at the launch and people are already asking when the next one comes out.<\/p>\n

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Ayanna is pictured with Dash and Paris at a book signing held at Charger Academy.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Written in real life<\/h3>\n

Ayanna has spent nearly two decades in education. She taught in the classroom, then moved into an administrative role overseeing the preschool program, where she spends her days providing support for students and coaching teachers on how to meet kids where they were.<\/p>\n

She was doing all of that at work, then she\u2019d come home to Dash and her daughter, Paris. She realized the methods she was using in the classroom might also be methods that would be helpful with follow-through at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think parents naturally know to do these things. Our instinct is just, \u2018Oh my God, why didn\u2019t you do this?!\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The strategies she landed on were simple and visual. She cleaned Dash\u2019s room the way it should be cleaned, photographed every corner of it \u2013 the bed, the dresser, the rug, all of it \u2013 and taped the pictures to his wall. When she told him to clean his room, he had a reference point. When he said he was done, she\u2019d ask if it matched the pictures.<\/p>\n

She started with one task at a time – make your bed – then she built from there.<\/p>\n

\u201cProgress over perfection,\u201d she said. \u201cJust be better than you were yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ayanna realized she and Dash weren\u2019t alone in their struggles, and so she decided to write a book.<\/p>\n

When Dash read the pages where his character describes how he feels, he went quiet. She describes a conversation where he told her she\u2019d captured just how he felt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I hit the nail on the head. If that\u2019s how he feels, somebody else may be feeling the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honoring her late brother and father<\/h3>\n

The book had been in her head for years, and the encouragement to get there came from her father, Larry Cobbins.<\/p>\n

An artist himself, her father had been asking about the book for years, texting her to check in. He reminded her she had a gift, and told her not to let it go. In 2022, he sent her a message that she saved and eventually included in the book\u2019s pages. Unfortunately, Mr. Cobbins died in July 2024, never having seen it finished.<\/p>\n

Dash Gets It Done<\/em> was inspired by her son, encouraged by her father, and released to reclaim a time of year when she remembers the tragic loss of her brother, Orlandus \u201cBull\u201d Cobbins.<\/p>\n

More than a dozen years later, it’s still difficult. She becomes emotional when talking about the brother who was 13 months younger than her, about him tagging along when she’d spend time with her best friend, Tamika. She had never known life without him, but after he was murdered on Feb. 20 2012, she had to learn.<\/p>\n

Bull\u2019s memory is woven into why she does what she does: she hosts an annual community event in his name, brings people together, promotes resources and alternatives to violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the things I do now are because of that moment,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t want anybody else to go through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ayanna is pictured reading to the students at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hatchie River Region.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A faith that runs in the family<\/h3>\n

Running underneath all of it – the book, the parenting strategies, the community work – is a faith Ayanna traces directly to her mother.<\/p>\n

Her mother didn\u2019t always use Bible stories to teach, but she always tied life back to Scripture. When Ayanna came home upset that someone was talking about her, her mother didn\u2019t take her side. Instead, she said, \u201cWell, you talk about people.\u201d When bigger lessons were needed, she\u2019d point to Jesus, how people talked about him, and how he just kept doing what he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe would just relate it back to what God says,\u201d Ayanna said. \u201c’I want you to love everybody.’ And I kind of felt like if I didn\u2019t do those things, I was convicted. I do what you\u2019re supposed to do even when nobody\u2019s watching.\u201d<\/p>\n

That foundation has been reinforced over the years by Rev. Dexter G. Moragne, senior pastor of St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church in Covington. Ayanna describes him as a spiritual father, someone whose lessons have guided her through some of the hardest moments of her life.<\/p>\n

The night after Bull died, she came home and couldn\u2019t sleep. She pulled up notes from Pastor Moragne\u2019s sermons she had saved in her phone and just kept scrolling through them, trying to hold on.<\/p>\n

His influence found its way into the book, too. The Sunday before Dash Gets It Done<\/em> was released, before anyone outside her family knew it was coming, Pastor Moragne preached on Peter. It was the same disciple Dowell had referenced in the book.<\/p>\n

\u201cI only knew that the book was coming out,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m like, what in the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

She went back and added a passage after that sermon, about God using imperfect people, about seeing strength instead of weakness. She wanted kids to know it. She wanted parents to know it.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because you\u2019re not perfect does not mean that God can\u2019t use you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Willing to learn, brave enough to try<\/h3>\n

The responses she\u2019s heard since Dash Gets It Done<\/em> has been released have stayed with her. A cousin read it thinking about her adult son and cried, recognizing that this was how he had felt all along. A mother told her that her child wants it read to him every night. Another child\u2019s takeaway, when asked what he learned, was simply: \u201cWe need to pray.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted adults and kids to read it and get something from it,\u201d she said. \u201cJust to feel like ‘somebody understands me.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Dash himself has started to own it. Ayanna overheard him explaining the book to someone recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, ‘It\u2019s just kind of like how I overcome my obstacles,’\u201d she said. \u201cI was like, ‘Look at you!’\u201d<\/p>\n

A second book is already in the works. Dash asked for it after his basketball team faced an intimidating opponent. It will be called Dash and the Giant<\/em>. Each book in the series, she said, will connect to a story from the Bible.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how her mother taught her \u2013 not always through Bible stories, but always through Scripture, always tying things back to something larger than the moment. Ayanna carries that forward, into the book, into her parenting, into her work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to help somebody,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s it. That\u2019s it right there.\u201d<\/p>\n

There’s a verse in James that theologians have debated for centuries: faith without works is dead.<\/p>\n

For Ayanna, it isn’t a debate, it’s a description of her life.<\/p>\n

She didn’t just grieve her brother and pray, she built Bull Day and shows up every year to pull the community together. She didn’t just believe in the book her father kept asking about, she sat down during a snow break and finished it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe name of the book is Dash Gets It Done<\/em>. Not only did Dash get it done, but I got it done too,\u201d she said. \u201cI did it, Daddy.<\/em> I just wish he was here to actually see it. He would be so proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dash Gets It Done is available on Amazon: amazon.com\/dp\/B0GPMXSTMT<\/a>. For more information about the books, follow the Dash Chronicles<\/a> on Facebook.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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