Simple Thoughts from My Eyes Wide Open Author:Mark Obrien I asked my friend one day if the handbook to life he was given when he arrived in this world was available to me, because when I was brought into this world no such handbook was provided. He of course said he did not receive one, and with this in mind I knew that each and every day I live is my handbook, my life lessons. The stories and poems in... more » this book are an extension of some of these lessons. Share in the thought that you are not alone. I reach out to the living, the dead, the abused, the racist, the lover, the hater, the conformist, the cheater so as to give all hope and to make others aware that all actions have reactions. I honor all and show compassion to those who need it. I am not a scholar, but a man willing to give you Simple Thoughts from My Eyes Wide Open.« less