Do Amazing Things - Take Amazing Risks

As the skydiver who dreamed of flying said, "If you want to do amazing things you have to take amazing risks."

So it goes in the land of Attitude where flags become snarled on lines of nationalistic winds. Hot air sweeps north from the jungles of snow taxis playing solos. Where women do all the work. Their men alternate between racing oil soaked engines, playing bored board games with small round trees or shuffling paper in historical crypts.

Most stand around with hard hands buried in empty pockets waiting for something to happen.

The majority of people here suffer from anxiety. They take anti-depressants to calm their neurosis. Symptoms of overwhelming sadness dresses them in rose petals between self-pity and thorns.

Peace.

 

Book Jacket Blurb

Here's the jacket blurb.

You need a comfortable jacket when fall and winter dance between seasonal shifts.

As Basho, the Haiku poet said, "Travel is human life-life is a journey."

An experiment in perspective, an epic with multiple players, "A Century Is Nothing" takes the reader on a pilgrimage to the subconscious.

Join Omar, an exiled Tuareg Berber and blind prescient writer from the Moroccan Sahara, on his travels as he and Mr. Point, a Vietnam veteran he meets after 9/11, share dreams, myths, and cogitations. Within the harmonious triad of language, countries, and friends, Omar's journey begins in Morocco; takes him through Ireland, Kuwait, Israel, Bhutan, Japan, Vietnam, the Taos Pueblo, Bali, China, and Tibet; and eventually to 26,000-year-old Paleolithic caves in Spain.

Experiencing joy with a playful childlike sense of delight, the wayfarers explore cultural communities with great passion through healing and meditation. Their stories establish a circle of friendship where authenticity, compassion, kindness, and awareness are highly valued.

A Century Is Nothing explores the journey of life to discover the very essence of the human soul.**__

Many Thanks

Greetings,

Yes, my dear friend Tom in the states of amnesia has received one hard copy and boxes of paperbacks.

He said he will wrap up the hard copy in an airtight container and bury it beneath a sarcophagus. A time capsule memory.

The paperbacks will be dispersed through the world to individuals. Such a fine little gift.

Many thanks to each and all of you for giving my novel a little look-see, turning pages, inside and outside the perpetual dance of dreams.

Omar sends his regards from Spain. "It's a thing of beauty."
I couldn't have completed it without his wisdom and guidance.
May your path be filled with light and love.

A Century Is Nothing

Greetings,

I am pleased to say my novel, "A Century Is Nothing," is available through Amazon and iUniverse links on the sidebar. Now I am free to connect with you and others. It's a real joy.

How does it feel to work on a book for what appears to be forever and then let it go? Strange and liberating, like exhaling far out into deep space.

Yes, this transition feels calm and centered knowing the work is now not my responsibility - how I have hunted and gathered, sifted, sorted, analyzed it and nurtured it along the edges of dreams, facts, and playful imaginations.

So it goes now dancing free filled with the kindness, respect, dignity and mind fullness it deserves. Out into the stillness, from the center.

Thanks for reading it should you get a copy. It may make a fine little gift for someone special in your life as we share the adventure.

I look forward to your comments, critiques, and thoughts.

Peace.

Random Moleskine Notes

Creativity is my meditation. The comic, the absurd. Don't take it all too seriously. The one who laugh's lasts.

Writing suggestion: make your characters want something right away, even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaningless of life still have to drink water from time to time.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations so the characters will say surprising and revealing things and educate and entertain us all. If a writer can't or won't do that, they should get out of the trade.

Writer as hustler. They insist on being read. 

Doodle drama, ah the drama, the unfolding play! Information versus entertainment. Keep them stupid and happy. Children, of all ages, are amused by the idiot box.

We watch all the feelings, sensations and thoughts that arose upon having that event happen. 

Absolved by rain, the deluge.

"Keep your hand moving," whispered the writing teacher. They were strange. All of them.

The teacher in Tang Dynasty clothing filled with dragons, yin-yang mysteries of balance, becoming, a Phoenix rising, a crying crane flying through mist covered mountains while emperors danced with concubines inside Forbidden Cities's red lacquered emotional curiosities where visions of detached ebullient phosphorus streams dove into silence, the abstraction of tonal quality in extreme bliss, a manifestation of phenomenal superior detective analysis and a forty questions of the soul marketing examination at 7:00 p.m. was followed by utter exhaustion.

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