Solitary Thoughts is a collection of passagesmeant to impart a narrative of the authorsstruggles to cope in a society that is toopreoccupied with commercial self-interest.Values such as efficiency and expediencerise to the fore in a culture polarized betweenproduction and consumption. People arestereotyped and assaulted with expectations thatthreaten their ability to live.The author attempts ...

At eighty-two, Florida Scott-Maxwell felt impelled to write about her strong reactions to being old, and to the time in which we live. Until almost the end this document was not intended for anyone to see, but the author finally decided that she wanted her thoughts and feelings to reach others. Mrs. Scott-Maxwell writes: “I was astonished to find how intensely one lives in one’s eighties. The last years seemed a culmination and by concentrating on them one became more truly oneself. Though...

“Dead Toad Scrolls” is a series of meditative personal essays written by a trial attorney whom undergoes midlife crisis. The author is the husband of a wife whom suffers from the aftermath of surviving Stage III breast cancer and the father of an intelligent teenage son. Dissatisfied with the practice of law – all the conflict and greed – that mars his pursuit of happiness and the attainment of self-realization, the author conducts an exhaustive review of his formative personal experience....

Sense and Sound presents a new collection of more than five hundred poems exploring more than one hundred and fifty subjects, including aging, love, war, religion, and beauty. This inspiring collection of verse addresses the fundamental concerns of the human condition. The poetry roams freely, reaching for abstract truth one moment and touching upon human frailty the next. These verses consider many topics in the struggle to make sense of the mystery of life including issues of the head an...

The Adventures of ABPoe: Vol One is a collection of insight and memories found and formed between the years of 2000 and 2011. It contains statements on life, death, the self, truth, society, and personal opinion. Broken into four parts, each was written separately, but together provide a journey through introspection, individuality, and inherent information. Collected letters and journals have provided most of the details, and the outcome is a vast and fiery assortment of ...

This book is the third volume of journal selections (2007-2011). Volume I included an Introduction and some biographical memories. As with the previous two volumes, the major events of life claim little diaristic attention, the overlooked or insignificant habitually capturing the authors attention. Most journals or notebooks of eminent writers conclude with their relative youth, when they pick up the pen to create an imaginative retrospective journey, so there is little available of aging ...

These journal entries comprise two volumes of selections (Vol. I, 1973-1982, Vol. II, 1983-2003). Volume I includes an Introduction and some biographical memories.As Stephane Mallarme considered literature the antithesis of journalism, a journal is often the antithesis of a diary. It is of less interest to record moods and events, or barriers to self-realization, than to have ideas and insights about these. As a journal-keeper, I am generally disinterested in diurnal details, unles...

Thoughts skid to a halt when the psyche reaches its innermost sanctums and the entire mind seems to become an extension of the infinite. The realization that we are boundless and much more than the physique is sobering and yet so true.The inner journey into the realms of our being is an epiphany that transforms and transports us into awareness of the goodness of human nature, and its intrinsic capacity to tame pain, disappointments, and challenges that destiny confronts us with wit...

This Minds Journey is my second book in poetry. In this writing I have tried to let fly the mind wherever it tends to travell through the help of knowledge. Woven interestingly covering many aspects of lives including the activities of natural phenomena as well I have inserted flow of the writings in a way to bathe in the realm of poems. Feelings and events converged in it are solely art of the beautiful heart which can dramatize the wave lengths of humans intention. Beyond imagination, in...

Wander like the lone clouds,Be someone’s guiding light,There is so much to meet your eyes,Don’t content yourself for the end being near. Rehaan Rashed

Thoughts and aphorisms on art and style, taste, self-knowledge, psychology, religion, happiness, self-interest, pride, self-reliance, vices and virtues, politics, thinking and genius, illusion, and the purpose of life and death. Influenced by thinkers such as Pascal and Nietzsche, this collection of brief maxims and longer paragraphs argues for energy and order, imagination and tradition, and self-reliance within strong institutions, and attacks the facile humanism, optimism, progress, lev...

A Thomas Lowther, born November 21st 1966 in a convent in Lochee, Dundee, Scotland. The son of a merchant seaman, he too being a well travelled individual. Having spent some early years in Canada and his young adulthood (10 years) in Her Majesties Armed Forces, had the opportunity to see many walks of life, in both good and bad light. Since then he has spent multifarious years working and teaching in the security and event industry and now lives in Dubai