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Patty Smith

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My name is Patty Smith, the author of "The Children’s Hour", "The Children's Hour of Holidays" and "The Big Hungry Hairy Green Monster." These children’s books came to life while, I had been working on the deep rooted story "A Rude Awakening." Often In life, we come face to face with the unexplained, a true life changing mystery. It’s been several years now, since this spiritual calling began. This story holds the power to heal and mend past broken children, whom are still living out their adult lives, as the abused child that they were. Motivated through the higher power, often in my frustration, I would question God. “So you send me a gift, a gift indeed, but why a gift if I do not know how to wrap it for a soul?”
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Part 1 "A Rude Awakening"

A Rude Awakening: So where did it all begin

Oh children of the world
What will be?
When all of this eventually
Will be passed along on down
To your children pass you and me.

After father’s brutal accident, paralyzed and shamed, he hid away for the next sixty years of his unhappy life. The world in which we lived was surrounded by insanity, the walls padded with misery. Having been placed into the trus Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 13, 2014 15:31 • Tags: chilling, dramatic, fears, forgiveness, healing, inner-child, insanity, lies, love, lust, physiologist, reason, romance, secrets, spiritual, suicide, thrilling, truth

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“A Rude Awakening" By Patty Smith, " In Search of the Inner Child"
A life Changing Experience.”
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“I love the things that bring love to spring.”
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“A song for you
A song for me
Is how we relate our life to be”
― Patty Smith, The Children's Hour

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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Feb 17, 2014 12:17PM

A song for you -A song for me
Is how we relate our life to be

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message 1: by Patty (last edited Mar 09, 2014 11:08AM)

Aug 06, 2013 04:03PM

The Big Hungry Hairy Green Monster

My name is Patty Smith, I am very excited to introduce my three exciting adventure stories of, "The Big Hungry Hairy Green Monster." These 31 colorful pages are filled with an over abundance of mind grabbing, hysterical illustrations, capturing the full attention of your children.
Like magic in the night, after, The Big Hungry Hairy Green Monster, escapes out of his mighty-dusty dungeon, out from behind the rusty-dusty bars, he works his way up the winding staircase to the kitchen. After he eats everything in sight, his big, round belly, stands out as big as a ball, and he couldn’t stand tall. Suddenly his big, round belly, begins to rumble tumble and roar, rumble tumble and roar, and out from nowhere he goes toot-toot-toot and burp-burp-burp, tumbling all the way back down to the mighty-dusty dungeon. Only like magic in the night, once again, he escapes out from the mighty-dusty dungeon and this time, ventures out of the big house, on the hill. Only when he finds and climbs into a red wooden truck, filled with cartons of eggs, in rows of eight, he loses his way back home. In a white castle that sparked in the night, down in a big, dungeon, is where, The Big Hungry Hairy Green Monster, meets, the Beautiful Pink Furry Monster, and instantly falls in love. Taken in by The Big Hungry Hairy Green Monster’s, big round purple eyes, she fluttered her long eyelashes back at him. But-but, then suddenly, in the arms of the Beautiful Pink Furry Monster, was, one, two, three, three, furry little babies, all as cute as could be. One was pink like mommy and one was green like dad, and even thought one had pink and green polka, dots it didn’t make them sad. So, as the story go’s, The Big Hungry Hairy Green Monster and the Beautiful Pink Furry Monster and their three little tots, lived happily ever after.

Take a peek at my other exciting, Children’s books, “The Children’s Hour,” & “The Children’s Hour of Holidays.”
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