Imagine the essence of each positive and negative learning experience of a person over a lifetime, as single grains of sand, gathered from a vast mystical beach. Now imagine the positive grains separating from their negative counterparts, and being whisked to Earth in a magical whirlwind. Envision these positive grains of sand being dynamically transformed and assembled into concise, readable, and useful contexts as they reach the Earth. Now imagine these useful contexts being bound into book form with the lighthearted title - "Feel Good Fables." Picture yourself reading one or more of these concise fables (short stories imbued with a moral compass), as time permits, in either random or sequential fashion, as you prefer. Now imagine your stresses easing and a sense of "feeling good" as you finish reading each fable. Picture peace -- now imagine this peace enveloping your life... Enjoy We hope you will take away some enjoyable and subtle -- if not invaluable -- insights from Feel Good Fables. We enjoyed incorporating memory shards and situations from both yesteryear and today . . . and wrapping each entry in a concisely presented fictional veneer to underline our ethical and moral points. Don

Death can be devastating for loved ones left behind. And when a child dies, it can be even more devastating. The demise of eight-year-old Kwame Kyler is indeed a case in point. But remarkably in his death is born a renewed hope for many. Given only six months to live at birth, Kwame astonishes all with his amazing continued improvement of his serious heart defect. His determination to avoid a looming death is only surpassed by his zestful approach to life. In August of 1980, he is medically cleared to finally fulfill his two year dream of joining his friends on their youth football team. Then tragically, at his first practice session, Kwame Kyler collapses and dies. This is the story of how his loving parents find the courage to cope with this tragedy, as they are aided by the unexpected and unlikely support from strangers in a community hundreds of miles away. These two racially diverse communities bond in a joint effort to remember and honor this heroic little boy. And in the end, Kwame Kyler's tragic death evolves triumphant as it provokes the rendering of life altering enlightenments through the crossing of cultural lines. "Rick, you've been chosen and assigned the mission to deliver this inspirational story." -The Rev. Geri Kyler- Kwame Kyler's mother

A Quest for Personal Growth is written in a self-help poetry format, where each topic has a narrative and poem. The topical arrangements are woven together by one common thread and have no other relevance with respect to the actual order. Self-help is one of our greatest natural resources, where the notion to help our self, in is fact a tool to help others, which is born of personal choice. Poetry allows for a creative license to explore the unexplored, without any preconceived notions attached. This common thread brings to light the idea that life is a blessing and loving a purpose. There is an infinite balance within all creation as the two interact with choice and free will. Living in this grace is a grand design and sharing this knowledge is a mutual benefit of evolution. Accordingly, it establishes that we are all connected, one to the other, in an endless chain of expression. This awareness states that life is love incarnate and we are one in this purposeful quest back to the instinctive light of creation. We share in the blessing of intent, dually receiving from the great universal pool of cause and effect. And all matters of cause and effect are initiated by our choices. The purpose of progression and the pursuit of its progress are in divine accord with the grand design, as this path of free will, is in fact, our quest for personal growth.