Trail Guide for a Crooked Heart: Stories and Reflections for Life's Journey

By Jim May

"A brilliant mixture of story, philosophy, humor and wisdom, this book reminds us that---if we are open to story, dreams, imagination, and myth---we can open doors within our soul."
     —Jay O’Callahan, author, storyteller, and NPR commentator

A lifetime collection of stories, wise words, assembled musings and quotations about overcoming hurdles, elusive enlightenment, personal evolution, persistence in the face of discouragement, this pastiche is designed to encourage the downhearted, lift up the strivers, and add wings to the heels of spiritual seekers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc
• Release date: Mar 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781624910234

Jim May

Jim May is a recent Pennsylvania transplant to Southern California following the sale of his portfolio of technical marketing and manufacturing companies headquartered in Pennsylvania. He is enjoying his second life with many activities besides authoring this third book, including chartering his sailing yacht and teaching sailing, marine navigation and nautical team-building exercises from his local harbor at Dana Point, portrait oil painting, and philanthropic charity work. Although Jim has maintained in the past that he is a fiction writer, that line has since been blurred with his poignant commentaries. Regardless of the genre or subject, he uses the same logic and storytelling abilities to lead the horse to water. The rest is deliciously up to us. He will tour you through the beauty of language manipulation in Spinmeisters’ interesting compendium of extensive examples. He will entertain you while demonstrating the intellectual skills of so-called spin doctors in all walks of life including both those who are purely soliciting with an honest but biased intention and also those who are unabashedly scheming to achieve their results. Destined to be an all-time reference work on the subject, Spinmeisters sets a new awareness of the ever-present language conditioning found in our daily lives. It’s both a detailed instructional manual and also an entertaining commentary based on many of the most important issues of our time. You will recognize some of the characters in it including possibly yourself. Jim always welcomes your comments at [e-mail].

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