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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - Jay Thomas Willis M.Ed. MSW
Copyright © 2024 by Jay Thomas Willis, M.Ed., MSW.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
This book is a work of nonfiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.
Rev. date: 04/15/2024
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CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. God and Religious Issues
2. Assignment Issues
3. The Universe as an Issue
4. Family and Relationship Issues
5. Friendship Issues
6. Educational Issues
7. Assessing Your Situational Issues
8. Community and Societal Issues
9. Change as an Issue
10. Behavioral Issues
11. Personal Issues
12. General and Miscellaneous Issues
13. Financial Issues
About the Author
Also by Jay Thomas Willis
Nonfiction
A Penny for Your Thoughts: Insights, Perceptions, and Reflections on the African American Condition
Implications for Effective Psychotherapy with African Americans
Freeing the African-American’s Mind
God or Barbarian: The Myth of a Messiah Who Will Return to Liberate Us
Finding Your Own African-Centered Rhythm
When the Village Idiot Get Started
Nowhere to Run or Hide
Why Black Americans Behave as They Do: The Conditioning Process from Generation to Generation
God, or Balance in the Universe
Over the Celestial Wireless
Paranoid but not Stupid
Nothing but a Man
Things I Never Said
Word to the Wise
Born to Be Destroyed: How My Upbringing Almost Destroyed Me
Nobody but You and Me: God and Our Existence in the Universe
Got My Own Song to Sing: Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome in My Family
Random Thoughts on My Reality
A Word to My Son: A Celebration
Messed-Up Kid
Off-the-Top Treasures
Going with the Flow
Man’s Basic Purpose
God Told Me to Tell You
My Life and Times: Some Personal Essays
Life’s Lessons: Some Passing Thoughts
Why I Write: Notes Straight from the Hip
Just Jazzing: Thoughts from the Depth of My Soul
It’s Good to Be Alive: Focusing on the Positive Rather Than the Negative
Country Boy: Way Down Home
How I Became Dysfunctional: Notes from a Personal Perspective
I Got My Reparations: You Can Get Yours Too
Fiction
No Worldly Options Except Suicide or Schizophrenia: But God Has His Own Plans
You Can’t Get There from Here
Where the Pig Trail Meets the Dirt Road
The Devil in Angelica
As Soon as the Weather Breaks
The Cotton is High
Hard Luck
Educated Misunderstanding
Dream On: Persistent Themes in My Dreams
Longing for Home and Other Short Stories
Promises I Must Keep: Maintaining My Family’s Legacy
What Kind of Fool? and Other Short Stories
Sexual Storms
Poetry
Reflections on My Life: You’re Gonna Carry That Weight a Long Time
It’s a Good Day to Die: Some Personal Poetry About the Ups and Downs in My Life
Dedication
For all those who helped to clear my vision—you know who you are.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to all those who meant me harm, but it turned out to be for my good.
Thanks to all those who helped me in ways I will never know. There are always those who are working behind the scenes for a poor and ignorant country boy who had an underdeveloped conscious level.
Thanks to all those who decided to leave me alone, and just let me find out what life was all about for myself.
Thanks to all those who saw I was headed for trouble but decided to leave me to my own devices. It turned out it was better for me to draw my own conclusions.
Thanks to my parents for allowing me the freedom to explore life on my own terms.
Thanks for the farm that motivated me to move away.
Thanks to everything and everyone that kept me alive and in a decent state of mind.
Preface
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,
is a book of sayings, thoughts, ideas, statements, and affirmations.
Another winter has passed and during this time the author has produced another book of sayings. He hopes you enjoy them. He wrote until, for that moment, he had exhausted his repertoire of sayings.
He has written several other books of this type in which he discusses both the more negative and positive aspects of his experiences. This time he decided to point out mostly the positive aspects of his experiences. These are all statements that are more positive than negative.
The author wrote these sayings while sitting in his study listening to smooth jazz on his TV, relaxing in his plush, comfortable, La-Z-Boy. Sometimes with a warm blanket. The blanket reminded him of the Peanuts’ character who is so attached to his blanket. Chicago winters, as most of you know, can be very cold. It was in the heart of winter: around November, December, January, and February. He does his best writing during this period. The author used a process of brainstorming to arrive at his ideas. The statements he makes in this book are some truths he has come to realize over the years. He wouldn’t make a statement if he didn’t believe it to be the truth. Some of these statements are simple and obvious but good to think about and ponder.
These amazing sayings, statements, ideas, thoughts, and affirmations are mostly original. These sayings may not be 100% original, but he has at least combined them in his own way to achieve his purpose. They came mostly from the deep recesses of his cerebral consciousness. He never sought out any other written source. Some of these sayings are things he has heard over and over for many years.
The author has tried not to repeat any of the sayings in this book that he has used in other books, but he is going strictly from memory, and hopes his memory serves him well. He had a difficult time remembering what he had previously written. These sayings would often fade away from his memory like butter in a hot frying pan. It was hard to keep up with them. He would get an idea but lose it quickly. As soon as he thought of these sayings, he had to hurriedly write them down. After all, he is a seventy-six-year-old man. He also hopes he didn’t repeat any of the sayings several times as he moved throughout the various sections in this book. Even if he did repeat some of the statements, they are worthy of being repeated.
It was inevitable to repeat some of these common sayings. He tried to limit the number of common sayings. If there is any similarity in thoughts to other ideas, it’s because he had the same idea as someone else. Some of these sayings are questionably