A Letter to My Daughters. Theodore Richards

      

A Letter to My Daughters

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      © 2018 • Text by Theodore Richards

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      The author has tried to recreate events, locales and conversations from his memories of them. In order to maintain their anonymity in some instances he has changed the names of individuals and places, he may have changed some identifying characteristics and details such as physical properties, occupations and places of residence.

      Published in 2018 • Little Bound Books Imprint of Homebound Publications Front Cover Image © Theodore Richards Cover and Interior Designed • Leslie M. Browning Paperback ISBN • 978-1-947003-93-4

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      Dedication

      For the wild, and the child, in all of us.

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      Don’t ask yourself what the world needs;

       ask yourself what makes you come alive.

       And then go do that. Because what the world

       needs is people who have come alive.

      –Howard Thurman

      The best way to know God is to love many things.

      –Vincent Van Gogh

      Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

      –Kazuo Ishiguro

      Nel suo profondo vidi che s’interna,

       legato con amore in un volume,

       ciò che per l’universo si squaderna.

      I saw within its depth how

       It conceives all things

       in a single volume bound by Love,

       of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

      –Dante

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      Also by the Author

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       Handprints on the Womb

       Nonfiction

      Cosmosophia Creatively Maladjusted The Great Re-imagining

       Fiction

      The Crucifixion The Conversions