Thinking of "my literary children"

“Casting Homeward is Steve Ramirez’s best book to date. Within it, he brings a much-needed soothing voice to this era of cacophony.”

~ Monte Burke, New York Times best-selling author of Saban and Lords of the Fly

In many ways, Casting Forward took me a lifetime to experience and writer. In mere human temporal terms, about two years. Each of my literary children takes me about two years of my near constant attention and daily renewal of a sense of passion and purpose to write - but they are born upon a foundation of struggle and triumph where the struggle is long and the triumph seems ephemeral. So it is not hyperbole to say that this set of four books and many stories, lessons, and pleadings are my literary children and perhaps the last best gifts I have to give to this wounded, burning, lovely, magical world.

I don't want to let the cacophony of tyrants, would be tyrants, and fearful fools to drown out the messages of hope and joy and urgency that theses books and their vital remembrances and refrains have to offer - in the creation of a new movement of human beings who recognize the "Power of One" and the great gift we are squandering as we amuse ourselves by "playing with the box."

I hope you will Travel With Me on this journey and the ones yet to come. Each builds upon the other. The four books of the "Lyons Press Casting Series" bring us "full circle" back to the Home we have been given and the one we are creating. They are sunrises that remind us that the sun will set again - all too soon.

Namaste' Y'all...

~ Steve

The Imperfect Texan Buddha and Warrior -Poet