Later, in the following year (2015), I used my collected vacation days to head the short distance to Unterturkheim (near Stuttgart) to hole up for the first of what would become a handful of solitudinal writer’s retreats – this one in a quiet studio apartment surrounded by vineyard leaves glowing gold and graced by flocks of crows playing Joy-fully on the still-warm autumn air. And this is when & where I began honing what would end up becoming the spiritual treatise eventually titled “Burnishing Bigotry” …

“I love deadlines, especially the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ~ Douglas Adams

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book soon looks to be too difficult for grown-ups to comprehend or appreciate, then you write the same for children.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle

“Write what needs be comprehended; write what should ever be remembered.” ~ inspired by Isabel Allende

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