These books are a collection of past and present writings that together both finalize all Aaron's writings, most of which have never been completed until publishing here, while creating a non-sequential autobiography. Running through the series is the ongoing theme of looking for fulfillment and those distractions that block the way. Feel free to contact the author at aronmatyas@hotmail.com for any reason.
Aaron's work combining Washington state history, culture and musical theater earned him a Mayor’s Arts Award Letter of Commendation from the City of Bellingham, WA‘s Mayor‘s Office and City Arts Commission. He’s also a recipient of a Presidential Academic Fitness Award under the administration of President George H.W. Bush and is a Masonic Scholar Citizen, both for his academic work.
He graduated Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA with a BA in sociology and spent the years following living in Hungary and Japan teaching English. He’s also worked as a journalist for the Bellingham Herald along with publishing in numerous Pacific Northwest regional magazines and newspapers, including editorial, history and poetry. He also has a 25 year career as a thespian and is a musician. He lives in Manhattan with his partner Albert, a Julliard trained cocktail pianist www.youtube.com/jewelyard, and owns Roman Midnight Music, a heavy metal music publisher/label and rehearsal studio www.romanmidnightmusic.org
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Print: $10.58 Download: $5.00 A literary tribute to the World-Teacher, Heart-Master and religious guru Adi Da Samraj, formerly recognized as Bubba Free John. In a unique prose style - divinely inspired and culling from the styles of Gertrude Stein, Adi Da Samraj and the Beat Generation - this is the story of a middle aged everyman, a Mr. Zero if there ever was one, whose materialistic and heathen existance comes face to face with the divine being, a man called Da.
Using a unique poetic prose style of repetition and mirror prose imagery, this is a story of semi-biographical caliber, that anyone of spiritual leanings can relate to and pull something from. The story is loosely based on the biography of Adi Da Samraj, but it is not so much a story of him as the story of how the average man perceives life and what it does or does not offer.
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Print: $10.96 Download: $5.00 Though these 3 dramas - "Enlightenment Welcome", "Broken By Buddha" & "You Have Your Lebanon And I Have Mine" (loosely based on Kahil Gabrain) - were written at different times, under different circumstances and experiences, they all struggle with the theme of change and personal development. This includes change related to dreams unrealized, change within society and change in the face of depression. These shows also look at resolution in the face of change. But, resolution is just a temporary plateau allowing for movement forward. None of these dramas have been performed or published previously.
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Print: $10.07 Download: $5.00 Scott McCashlin ... a young man from Scotland with stereo-typical red hair and a big freckled smile, snazzy clothes, and a passion for beer, women, music, art and Zen ... and a modern man of letters who wrote for 3 years over e-mail of his travels in Europe and Argentina, the trials of relationships, the burden of college life, practicing Zen, Asian culture and more importantly dreams of the future.
These are the collected letters of a unique young man. Also includes the unpublished short story "The Silence of the City" about a deaf woman lost in a city with only a blues guitar playing bum as her guide.
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Print: $7.80 Download: $5.00 A collection of poetry written at the start of a new relationship. One man lives in Canada, the other in America.
After only one date the Canadian vanishes away to his home in Singapore for two weeks to visit the family - a trip planned long before.
This small collection poems are the result of no contact and the yearnings of a new relationship over those two weeks.
They are explicity gay themed, but not pornographic and you don't have to be gay to recognize the universal theme of longing and questioning in a new relationship.
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Print: $9.99 Download: $5.00 This is a collection of 100 poems covering the first 100 days of Zen meditation practice in the confines of a countryside Buddhist temple.
These are not poems of enlightenment and peace or worldly observations. These are poems of struggle and discomfort. These are not poems of book learning and priestly discussions, but of simple observations sitting in meditation, eating in silence and cleaning the hallways.
These are poems of celebration of a new world that any Buddhist practitioner will enjoy reading.
Also, throughout the book are photos of Buddhist and Shinto temples in Japan. Neither the poems or photos are previously published.
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