I found this while cleaning my garage. It is 9 short messages that combine to make a bigger thought. Each layer is printed on a transparency. I put a sheet of paper behind each one in the pictures. In the first and last frame I clipped the sheets so they would stay close to each other, then I held them up to a light.

Back when I really started writing I wrote general thoughts with details inside of details. I filled notebook after notebook with random words.

Keeping Minds has been my first attempt at a fictional, plot based story. I think this old relic from years ago shows how even then, I wrote about detail and with hidden meanings. I’m happy to think that I successfully carried this over to my novel Keeping Minds.

Some notable items are my incomplete sentences and improper use of periods. In Keeping Minds I use notable one word sentences and a few incomplete sentences. The over use of periods can be seen on the cover, chapter titles…etc. You can also see the same positive underlying life theme here as we see in Keeping Minds. Enjoy everything. Experience the details. Live life.

I wrote and put this together for my wife when we first met over 10 years ago. We lived 1,200 miles away and I would send her things like this in the mail. She inspired me to start writing.

I just wanted to share it with everyone. Only a handful of people have ever seen this, but I think it has a good message that should shared. I hope you enjoy it!

Please share it if you like it.

~ Vinal

The words:

A new perspective. So alternate to everything else. If everyone could see things like this. The world wouldn’t be so bad. Listening to words. Absorbing everything. Learning from every environment you ever encounter. Every person you ever meet. All the hurt you ever felt. So much written beauty come from. Hope and desire. Hurt and anger. A toast to all the pain. That sets the standards for joy. The more pain you have felt. The happier you can be over the little things. So touch everything. Feel everything. Try everything. The best way. With eyes wide open. Day to day. Taking your time. Ending each day knowing. You went out and felt. And helped. And touched someone. Then fall asleep. And sleep so peaceful. So deep. And dream. Dream of something special. A sweet tomorrow. Knowing you did what you have been put here to do.

-I see this person and all the time dream of you

-I hope you feel special

-You helped me

-See all the joy

-I see the beauty in everything you do

-New things from you everyday

-Bad words written to help someone so special

-Everything you desire you can have

-I hope you can feel something here

*addition* my wife just asked me what “bad words written…” meant. It was that I felt my words weren’t good enough.

Please check my books out if you have a chance! Thanks for reading!

Keeping Minds (Book #1) – 2013

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GTAY6NC

Failing Minds (Book #2) – 2013

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HLXPT2S