How the book "Please Have Compassion For Those Who are Terrified of the Changes Happening Now" came to be

I wrote the first poem The Most Important Things in March 2023, about three years ago. It is a very personal expression of how I felt about what has happened to me during my life and what is happening to all of us now. The poem addresses 4 themes: 

• The current shift in humanity's focus. There are irresistible spiritual forces moving humanity to change its focus. Many people are embracing the shift in focus and many people are resisting it. At the moment, resistance to the shift is manifesting in the world.

• Wisdom is what we all accumulate during our many lifetimes on this planet

• CSA, which profoundly affected my life and is distressingly common

• Life as an LGBTQ+  person, which has profoundly affected my life and the lives of many others

I wrote the last poem in the book There Are Many Paths through the Forest in October 2023. It looks at what is going on in the world right now and offers some optimism and some choices.