Reflections: Windows To My Soul

by Octavia

Kindle version of previously published poignant, soul-searching success story about a Black, single mother, her quest for upward mobility and to get out of the Chicago, Illinois, low income housing projects while rearing five children alone, who already had several grandchildren before being able to accomplish her goals. She tells of her life's struggles to overcome clinical depression and feelings of disrespect. This version also includes a peek into her ancestral heritage, her own failures when it came to rearing children, "flashes of weakness or despair," and about the fate of the Black race as a whole if there isn't some much-needed attitude adjustments. The author speaks out against matching hate for hate and feels that the practice should be to strive more toward education with a view toward utilizing the acceptable, available societal avenues of approach to change. She believes that Black people should be less violent and not try to "pay back" whites for slavery. That young Black males should avoid at all costs, providing society with excuses to mete out long prison terms to keep them locked up for it is their own children and other family that will suffer, not white society.

272 pages, Paperback

Published April 16, 2024