The genesis of anything begins with the mind. Whether cookbook, romance novel, horror, sci-fi, educational, fantasy, or childrens, the written work is meant to either elicit emotion or impart knowledge and understanding. Sometimes both.. These things were in mind as this work developed. It is also an expiate. An effort to blend the flavor of knowledge with the voice of emotion and understand oneself from a different view. And in the continuum of human existence the farther back the view the less painful the sight. If this selfish act causes others to review, then consider it a journey shared....