Thinking Room
Welcome to the Thinking room. This is where you'll find thought-provoking writing: essays, commentary, fiction and poetry.
Essays/Memoirs
The Day My Dream Became Reality -- the main topic of discussion at Phaelos is the arrival of our book, I Am My Body, NOT! It is our first fully realized publishing effort. All along the way, the response from readers has been very positive and encouraging. This is more a background story of the process, with pictures.
Adam Abraham and son Adam II combine their forces to unload palletized shipment of I Am My Body, NOT!
Essays by Adam Abraham
Sun Ra: The 'Father of Intergalactic Music? Thoughts and reflections on life with my father, who, while not "with me" during my youth, carried out a challenging life mission of his own.
Ebonics: A Trend to be Arrested
This essay was written in 1997, in response to the debate over the attempted "ebonification" of the English language by educators in the Oakland School District.
Another
book from Adam Abraham is A Freed
Man: An Emancipation Proclamation (ISBN 0-9700209-0-2 $17.95 Phaelos
Books) The book is a collection of thoughts on a wide variety of subjects.
However, the predominant theme of the book is Wonderful Dreams... dreaming
them and then investing our time and energy into making them real. We've
included a chapter from the book, which will be available soon.
Chapter 2: The Road to Freedom
"Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose...'" -Janis Joplin, lyrics from "Me and Bobby McGee
Through words that become sentences, and sentences that become books, literature, poetry, and song, our thoughts and ideas... our hopes and fears... are kept alive from generation to generation. However, their meaning evolves, not from generation to generation, but from person to person. Our "filter" for the interpretation of ideas is the attitude that we bring to our first encounter with them.