What If

By Michael Brookes

For a large part of my adult life, which is quite a long time, as I could kindly be best described as ‘post retirement’, I have felt, in fact known, that I needed to write a book. This may be something that is quite common to many of us, which is perfectly understandable to me, because I believe we all provide a home to our inner-selves, the real ‘us’, which some may call our consciousness, but others may feel comfortable enough, to call our soul or spirit; I am comfortable with all of these, because they are all manmade constructs, and in my view, amount to the same thing. Whichever term we use, I am sure that many of us feel, that the real ‘us’ constantly seeks expression.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Dec 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664118454

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