Reflections in a Paper Moon Book Two Zodia Map

<p>This second book of a series describes events that happened to the author after returning from Vietnam a decorated Marine. This book of revelation begins a new direction and greater comprehension of what it means to be. </p><p><br></p><p>There is special satisfaction of completion in writing a personal memoir unlike any other genre. In one sense it represents the opportunity to set the record straight a first person narrative perspective on time and events experienced through a generation. Also it is to be exposed like striping away ones clothing piece by piece and making bare the pretense of self-importance. To tell one's own story is as much embarrassing as it is cathartic a confessional made public for all to judge. Sometimes the hero of a challenge-- sometimes the villain-- but always made humble by trials and elations based on conditions altogether human within context. Times when heaven brought down to earth through hunger of diminished appetite; and times fulfilled by heavenly blessing. Often an experience humbling when confronted by human weakness human compassion and the measure of divine grace. Herein lies the corundum of mortal existence: remove indoctrination of socialization definitions of gender context of cultural values then what is left?</p><p><br></p><p>Are we only the sum of our experiences during this short sojourn? Are we merely the handful of earth and thimble of water that makes our biological whole in a fleetingly vast recyclable ocean recorded through a calculated number of lunar cycles? It is the chameleon visage of this familiar moonscape witnessed above both lovely and frighteningly mysterious which most haunts the living through constant passage. </p><p>Mountains and valleys of changing contour faces remembered some present some gone captured in imaginings of light and shadow subliminal all Reflections in a Paper Moon.</p><p><br></p>