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Malcolm Watts

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Reflections from Shadow is an engaging work will keep the reader enthralled until the very end. A Must Read!!
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INTERVIEW BY DELORES THORNTON:

DT: How long did it take to write Reflections from Shadow?

MW: The book took me around 6 years to write. Partly this was because I worked at it in my spare time, and partly because I wrote the story without an outline. I rewrote it umpteen times. My need to write it arose from my own troubled childhood, Evangelical upbringing, as well as 20 years clinical practice with troubled children, families, adolescents and adults. I wanted the world to hear the voice of a child trying to understand the adult world.

DT: Why did you write this story?
MW: Part of the reason I wrote the...more


Average rating: 4.17 · 6 ratings · 2 reviews · 1 distinct work
Reflections from Shadow
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Reflections from Shadow - Chapter One (Biographies & Memoirs)
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Description: The meaning of Jared Clarkson's lifetime of prisoner dreams is revealed at Dachau concentration camp in 1969. This 60's coming of age page-turner resonates, entertains and surprises. Read first 85 pages FREE on Google. Download Kindle Version on Amazon for $7.99
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Malcolm Malcolm said: "Wonderfully readable book explaining Buddhism and related issues in clear, succinct langauge. I recommend this book as a good overview for anyone seeking a primer on this fascinating philosphy. He maintains that Buddhism is not a religion in the trad...more "
 
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“I can't wait for the human race to be over and they give out the trophies.”
Malcolm Watts

“As has been said, the truth will set you free - but first it will make you miserable.”
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“Life is a carnivore. Eat it before it eats you.”
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“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
W.C. Fields

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The love you take
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“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
Edward Abbey

“No one here gets out alive.”
Jim Morrison

“..and the only law,
that there need be
you shall not take away the free
from any man
though different he.”
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Ilyn Ross Hello Malcolm,

How are you? Thank you for accepting my friend-request.

Please visit these groups when you have a chance: “Happy & Brainy Group” and “To the Glory of Man”.

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