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State of Mind: A Journey Through The Hills and Valleys of Life
State of Mind: A Journey Through The Hills and Valleys of Life
State of Mind: A Journey Through The Hills and Valleys of Life
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State of Mind: A Journey Through The Hills and Valleys of Life

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The book is a collection of thoughts and poems that reflect the hills and valleys of life. The book is a collection of thoughts and poems the author wrote from junior high school to adulthood. From a young age, the author used poem as a way to cope with life and the challenges it presented to him as he grew. The book represents challenges to find love, with God, with society, with past demons, and with self.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 2, 2015
ISBN9781494944674
State of Mind: A Journey Through The Hills and Valleys of Life
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Donald Easton-Brooks

Donald Easton-Brooks PhD. grow up in the inner-city of Houston, TX. He lost his mother at the age of 11. He lived a life in which he had to really raise himself. He has escaped various forms of childhood issues and now finds himself an advocate for children and educational policies. He did not have a relationship with his father until his 11th grade year in high school. However, Donald was been able to go to college on a football scholarship. He graduated with a degree in Sociology, later earned his masters in special education, and then his Ph.D. He is now a university dean. He has published works in academic journals and book chapters. He is married with three boys.

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    State of Mind - Donald Easton-Brooks

    Chapter 7: God and Thoughts of

    Everyday

    Dream State

    Hold on

    Christian?

    Matthew 16

    The Corner Store

    Sometimes Life Hurts

    Love come

    God’s Love

    Rain Dance

    Dreaming

    Secrets

    Suicide, My Mother’s Medicate

    PREFACE

    My college religion professor would say, I have borrowed stories, I have made stories, and stories have made me. I believe that stories are what keep us connected to the world. Without them, we would be in this world alone and in shame. Our shame would smother us and cause us sadness. Stories help keep us connected to one another. Just knowing that someone else in the world suffers with the things we suffer with, helps us to know that we are not alone.

    However, often times, the process of living can cause us to feel alone. The main reason we feel alone is because when life gets rough, the journey feels lonely and isolating. Often in this journey we face many obstacles. These obstacles are the hills and valleys that life presents to us. During this journey, rather than journeying to find something, we journey to complete something. It is those stories that we hear, share, and create along the way that calms our state of mind.

    When I completed this collection of thoughts, I was 34. I am now 49 and ready to share with the world. Writing poetry (my thoughts), in the words of Alice Walker, saved my life. I find very little reason to be this type of writing now, mainly because God has healed a part of what was missing by sending me a soul mate to share in my journey. But when I was in the midst of completing this collection, I looked at my short (but long felt) journey and knew that everything was going to be okay. Throughout the hurts of losing my mother at age 11, losing many women I thought I loved, battling to overcome the abuse of

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