The lives we left behind, passed on, re-configured, and abandoned, express the many parts of an evolving life force which is the image we imagine ourselves to be.
We evolve and devolve daily. How much we cling to those passed lives is up to each personality.
Some contend that there are external factors that sculpt our current form. Such forces can be rationalized.
Others contend that it's a spirit, a soul, or a blessing from above or below - a vapor in the either - that sustains and give substance to our needs and desires.
Life acknowledges impermanence and cultivates the living not the dead; only we who are living preach sacredness.
If we should die let us be responsible for the life we have chosen, acknowledging those lives we chose to leave behind.
If we should die, let us not forget we began as whimpering membranes flushed through watery chambers, little seeds of hope.
If we should die in the fields of our unknowing led by men who never knew and women who knew better; let us lift our hearts to a higher purpose than crushing one evil with another.
If we should die, let us remember that first tender kiss on our lips that liberated us with the blessing of consciousness.
These memoirs celebrate the lives left behind; the lives flamed by passion; the lives damaged by failure, and the lives to come.
Prologue
PART - 1 - FLIGHT
-Running Man
-The Guilt
-If Only, Maybe
-Laugh Out Loud
-To Dream
-Flight
-Blue Skies
-The Road to Ramadan
-Free at Last
-Exile
PART - 2 - BONDAGE
-Bondage
-Haysus stories
-Superstitions
-Discipline #1
-Invitation to a Journey
-Discipline #2
-Voice of my Heart
-Wretched of the Earth
-Blues People
-Blue Man
PART - 3 - TO BE FREE
-Freedom
-See London and Die
-Become the Sky
-The Marginals
-Tie me Up, Tie me Down
-Unfold your own myths
-In Disgrace with Fortune
-Intimate Connections
-Islander Ashore
-The Heart to Peace
PART - 4 -LETTERS
-Alexander Pushkin
-Franz Fannon
-Schopenhauer
-Piri Thomas
-Black Skins/White Masks
-James Cagney Jr.
-Chinua Achebe
-Herman Berlandt
-James Broughton
-Fitzroy Dawkins
PART - 5 - ESSENTIALS
-Aphorisms
-No Regrets
