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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html lang="en">
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<head>
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<style id="fort-styles">
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ul[data-fort]{list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:.45em}
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</style>
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<meta charset="UTF-8">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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<title>About Rony Thomas</title>
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<meta property="og:type" content="website">
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<meta property="og:title" content="About Rony Thomas">
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<meta property="og:description" content="Forty-seven years old. Born and raised in La Grange. African-American, Southern, and proud of both.">
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<meta property="og:url" content="https://rony-thomas.4ort.net/about.html">
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<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
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<meta name="description" content="Forty-seven years old. Born and raised in La Grange. African-American, Southern, and proud of both.">
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<style>
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body {
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font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times New Roman', serif;
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line-height: 1.7;
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margin: 0;
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padding: 0;
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background-color: #faf8f5;
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color: #2d2d2d;
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}
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header {
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background: #2c3e3f;
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color: #f5f0e8;
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padding: 40px 20px 30px;
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border-bottom: 4px solid #c47032;
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}
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header a {
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color: #f5f0e8;
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text-decoration: none;
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font-size: 15px;
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letter-spacing: 0.5px;
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header ul {
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margin: 0;
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padding: 0;
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display: flex;
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justify-content: flex-end;
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flex-wrap: wrap;
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gap: 30px;
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header li {
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list-style: none;
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header #branding {
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margin-bottom: 20px;
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}
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header #branding h1 {
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margin: 0;
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font-size: 2.5rem;
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font-weight: 400;
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letter-spacing: -1px;
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header .highlight {
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color: #c47032;
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font-weight: 600;
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header a:hover {
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color: #c47032;
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.container {
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max-width: 800px;
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margin: 0 auto;
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padding: 0 20px;
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}
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main {
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padding: 40px 0;
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}
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h1 {
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color: #2c3e3f;
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font-size: 2.2rem;
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font-weight: 400;
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margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
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border-bottom: 2px solid #c47032;
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padding-bottom: 10px;
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}
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h2 {
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color: #3a4f50;
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font-size: 1.5rem;
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font-weight: 400;
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margin-top: 2.5rem;
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margin-bottom: 1rem;
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}
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p {
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margin-bottom: 1.2rem;
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font-size: 1.05rem;
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}
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.lead {
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font-size: 1.2rem;
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color: #4a5a5b;
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font-style: italic;
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margin-bottom: 2rem;
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}
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.section {
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margin-bottom: 3rem;
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}
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.section h2 {
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margin-top: 0;
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}
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footer {
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background: #2c3e3f;
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color: #a09888;
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text-align: center;
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padding: 30px 20px;
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font-size: 0.9rem;
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border-top: 4px solid #c47032;
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}
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</style>
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<script defer src="https://analytics.4ort.xyz/script.js" data-website-id="d3ed927c-888a-4a6c-ae5f-0b1c613ddf5b"></script>
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</head>
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<body>
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<header>
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<div class="container">
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<div id="branding">
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<h1><span class="highlight">Rony</span> Thomas</h1>
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</div>
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<nav>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
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<li><a href="about.html" aria-current="page">About</a></li>
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<li><a href="services.html">Services</a></li>
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</ul>
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</nav>
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</div>
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</header>
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<div class="container">
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<main>
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<fort-nav><nav class="fort-nav" data-fort="nav"><a href="/">Rony Thomas</a><a href="/about.html" class="active" aria-current="page">About Rony Thomas</a><a href="/services.html">Services</a></nav></fort-nav>
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<h1>About Me</h1>
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<p class="lead">Forty-seven years old. Born and raised in La Grange. African-American, Southern, and proud of both.</p>
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<div class="section">
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<h2>The Kitchen Taught Me Everything</h2>
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<p>I started washing dishes at Mama Jo's on Main Street when I was fourteen. Worked every station — fry, grill, sauté, expediting — before I ever managed a budget line. The kitchen teaches you things no business school does: how to read a room, how to anticipate the rush before it hits, how to keep your cool when the ticket rail is three feet deep and the fryer just died.</p>
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<p>Twenty-some years later, I'm still using those lessons. Operations management is just mise en place at scale. Same questions: What do we need? When do we need it? Who's doing what? What happens when something breaks?</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2>Roots & Rhythm</h2>
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<p>My grandmother taught me to grow collards and tomatoes in the backyard plot behind the shotgun house on Elm. She taught me that food is how you love people — not the fancy kind, the real kind. A pot of beans that feeds a family for three days. A smoked shoulder that brings the block together on a Sunday.</p>
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<p>Sam Cooke on the porch radio. Gospel at First Baptist. The rhythm of the seasons — planting in March, first tomatoes in July, collards sweetened by October frost. This is the metronome I live by.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2>What I Carry Forward</h2>
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<p>Every system I build, every schedule I write, every budget I balance — it's all in service of the same thing: stability and nourishment for the people around me. My team. My family. My community.</p>
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<p>That's the work. Not flashy. Not loud. Just solid. Like a well-seasoned cast iron skillet.</p>
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</div>
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<fort-media query="African American man gardening vegetables" limit="1"><div class="fort-media" data-fort="media" data-query="African American man gardening vegetables"><img src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/9710826/pexels-photo-9710826.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940" alt="Positive unshaven African American male farmer with dreadlocks on head standing in garden of rural village" loading="lazy" data-license="RF" data-source="pexels"></div></fort-media>
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</main>
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</div>
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<footer>
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<p>Rony Thomas • La Grange, Kentucky • <a href="https://rony-thomas.4ort.net" style="color: #c47032;">rony-thomas.4ort.net</a></p>
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<p>Built with care, deployed via 4ort</p>
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</footer>
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</body>
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</html>
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