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jim, you must be picking up my feeling and thought of you on the ethers… i have been reading your book, “The Boy”, bit by bit like a good desert, right before bed and wanting to drag it out as long as possible because i didn’t want my beautiful bedtime story to end. but end it did, finally, friday night the evening before you wrote your a.m. comment: http://www.shamaniqueone.com/poetryandverse/is-pledge#comment-55 .

when i read the last words and shut the book i felt the emotions of sadness, deep appreciation, and strong desire to write a note, all at the same time. the thought i.e., in this case “i love what jim did and i want to write him a note to tell him”… combined with the emotion “gee i’m sad this ride is over, but so happy to have experienced it” are the ingredients in the manifestation, which, in this example was your response in the physical form of a note. thoughts in general and here specifically my thoughts, are the rocket ship and the emotions the fuel, so to speak, which together creates/created the mechanism that propelled the the note writing desire into form. i would have been the one to write that evening but didn’t because it was late and i was tired, so i went to bed saying to myself i’d make it a priority, monday, my first day back to the computer.

like a good friend, you picked up my transmission and, probably unknowingly, sent the note to me instead the next morning :)

how very nice.

this really wonderful story is about a boy who awakens to, and chooses to, nurture himself and his magic regardless of the many who do not endorse such a way of being. and when i say magic, i’m talking about the real deal here, not some contrived, don’t worry you’re safe because it’s not really going happen – since no one flies around on broomsticks kind of magic, but the real natural, dying to express itself, inherent in all – magic.

the boy, initially, by no choice and then by choice, cherishes and develops that part of himself while living within a society which, in general, doesn’t have a clue and doesn’t want to. there are the archetypical characters, antagonists, supporters, etc., human and animal alike, that are very likeable and dislikeable just as in any great myth.

jim weaves the manifestations into the story of this life so adeptly that it is totally relatable, just as i understand the creative process to work. i was happily reminded once again, that we have yet another brother in this author as a part of our great global tribe.

i am a magic person. i live, eat, drink and dance the magic of life. this story, like magic, fed me, hence the desert analogy. jim, i know you said the story of “the boy” will continue in sequel but getting the next book out tomorrow would just barely be enough to satisfy me. also, could you make it… hmmm… about 300 pages longer?

with great appreciation and luv,

ing  :)

just barely scratching the surface more on jim:

http://www.jamesstraussauthor.com

http://from-the-chateau-dif.blogspot.com

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