METAMORPHOSOS

<p>Eston Eugene Roberts was born in New Orleans LA on April 12 1932 to Arthurlene</p><p>Sutt on and Carl Daniel Roberts. His mother worked as a hotel maid and his father</p><p>some years older than his wife was a traveling magazine salesman who abandoned</p><p>his wife and two children in 1936. The family of three then relocated to Damascus</p><p>GA where they lived for a time with a great-uncle named Gary.</p><p>Within a year Eston's mother re-married and the family moved to a large log</p><p>home on the edge of Hilburn Hammock in an adjoining county. In addition to his</p><p>stepfather's parents the house was already home to four siblings and the addition</p><p>of three new family members made understandably a stressful situation. His</p><p>mother essentially a city girl was shown no sympathy for her lack of agricultural</p><p>competence and the two older girls banded in tandem forcing her to do their laundry.</p><p><br></p><p>It was no coincidence given these pressures that his mother began to suffer foaming-</p><p>at-the-mouth seizures and he remembers retreating to the north end of the long</p><p><br></p><p>front porch and screaming Help! Help! Help! at the top of his lungs. Over time</p><p>escaping that feeling of helplessness became the lodestone of his life.</p><p>Eston's stepfather was a hard taskmaster--opening often that he was doing a man</p><p>day's work at nine years of age-and was quick to point out Eston's failures to measure</p><p>up occasioning the defensive remonstrance: I don't care I'm not going to be a</p><p>farmer anyway!-a vow he was able to keep having spent most of his working</p><p>years as a college administrator and teacher of English.</p><p>Eston and his late wife Dorothy brought into the</p><p>world five children all of whom have showered</p><p>his life with blessings.</p><p>Metamorposos seeks to re-defi ne meta-phor as the</p><p>source of everything on the planet providing in</p><p>the process a rationale for independent living a</p><p>suggested path for liberation from the hypocrisy of</p><p>religions and reflexive living and the wherewithal</p><p>to assume responsibility for a self-directed existence</p><p>based on the concept of grounded integrity.</p><p>The author is pleased to acknowledge his</p><p>indebtedness to the metaphor that is quantum</p><p>mechanics.</p>