Love the look and the feel of this book. It’s a different shape from any of my others — “small square,” per the folks at Lulu.com, where it is beautifully printed. Fits just right in the outside pocket of my favorite purses, with the title showing bright and clear.

Writing the pieces that became Dream Repair Shop was heartfelt pleasure. Putting them together into a working manuscript was fun.

The most fun, though, is hearing someone say, “Wow! I can’t believe you wrote exactly what I needed to be thinking!” Makes it totally worthwhile to know these words are useful to other people, nudging them perhaps in the direction of their own dreams for their lives.

Starting with “Dream Stealers” and wandering through a total of 51 pieces related to dreams of life as it is, as it is not, and as it surely will be, including “Turtle Motion,” “Wings,” “Letter to a Son,” “Intentional Schizophrenia,” “Tarnished Pride,” and “Dream Repair Shop” on the way to “Never Forget,” this is a book to read a little at a time. Let that bit settle, think on it (or not), and then read another piece.

Each one is my favorite at the moment I’m reading it, so here’s a short excerpt from one of those favorites, “(R)evolving Door”:

Am I open that the world may see the person I know as me?
Am I closed from the exhaustion of not being those other persons seen
by my family and neighbors?
By those who would and would not have me work for them?
By those who would fix me and by my supporters?
By those I love and support?
By those I love yet don’t even know?
By those who have read a few of my words
and believe those few tell all I am?
By those who cannot understand that I am truly alive
even when they are not with me?

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Thanks to all who have eased the process of moving my words from handwritten pages to this bright, shiny book.  I hope each of you who is reading these words has as much joy in your life today as I have while holding this stack of copies of Dream Repair Shop.

Cheers!

Chas

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