“Crazy enough to love me”
… part of the inspiration behind the new book series is to encourage young
people and some adults to “show up” to life with their imperfections and give
themselves permission to be human and remove this false teaching of being
perfect, to be relevant and be in the moment enjoy it… in your imperfections that where
you’re going to find your truth not a version of the truth the truth… In my
journey as a surrogate father over the last years especially as I get closer to
my surrogate daughter , I have learnt a lot about myself and having her
“teach me how to love you because I don’t always know all the time I am as new
to this as you are ?”… and you definitely get it in the book having to
relearn how listen and not hear … finding each others love language and not
only finding it but speaking it as well in practical sense …. So many
little lesson I am learning … but it’s in there in the book, I think my
strength as a writer is that I take from reality and then I embellish it to
make fiction but because I am drawing from authentic emotion my audience
get to feel it to …. They either say I can relate or they will say I so wish I
had that … but connection is real ... Our children and the adults are hurting
because we live in a society encourages us to hide behind these fake persona
that limit our ability to connect love and be loved ... hiding behind the masks
and covers robs you of community. Teaching my surrogate daughter the truth in
our imperfection and accepting our contradiction but me telling doesn’t work ,
I have to show her and that journey of vulnerability in front of her which I
can a test as a hetro sexual male is very uncomfortable, almost painful
sometimes in a moment of truth scary … but my love for her is greater than my
pride .. and in writing the book in the way that I have I hope to leave some
crumbs of knowledge in there that could change some one’s life for the
better … especially considering the issues we face in society with the
generation gap and misunderstanding and my words can help to be a bridge
between the two and men and their daughters especially fatherless men …
The cloud I am out
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