THROUGH MY EYES

About the Book

A bus ride that unfolds into an intriguing story of reflections from the trials and tribulations of one young man’s hurtful past which is filled with lies and alibi’s. As he gazes out the bus window he is captured into various times of his life that pull pain , regret , and sorrow from the depths of his locked away soul to mere scenes behind the window of the bus as it travels along. He reminisces of his child hood and realizes that being an only child  tend to see more than what he really wanted to. He sees that he had become the confidant of his mother as well as a witness to many reasons of her mental composition. Life shows him the ugliness of what really happens in the mind of a southern Baptist Minister who was filled with five out of the seven deadly sins . The mistress’s willing to except damnation of the soul for the securities of the heart and flesh. The lies of marriage that destroys and drives one brother to suicide and the other to incarceration. This young man finds out that child support doesn’t define a man but, draws him closer to the man he wants to emulate knowing that what was taught to him by his mother was untrue.

Through this bus ride he sees that he has come a long way and may have grown up too fast in which he didn‘t enjoy his youth. This only child has acquainted himself with the drug of “ Running Away.” He runs from lies and alibi’s which are cursed by his family in which he wants to break.

He sees through all the misfortunes in his past and the destruction of his family , he has found a way to run away. 

About the Author

DeVon Andre Rice was born Willie Rice Jr. in Denver , Colorado in January 1968. This first time author was inspired to write this story based on a few of the trails and tribulations of his early life as a child adolescent , and young adult years. Raised by a strict obsessive mother on the eastern seaboard, D.A. Rice faced life as an only child in an adult world. For inspiration and self therapy to heal old scares , D.A. Rice looked over several aspects of his family and their involvement to heal himself along with answering questions relative to him.. D.A. Rice is a high school graduate and a Gulf War Veteran. He spent a lot of time traveling from state to state , with much time spent overseas in the military.

Most people spend endless amounts of money talking to psychologists , while D.A. Rice spent several years cleaning out and facing skeletons in his own closet in which he is still doing til this very day. Being very careful not to place blame on anyone but, to give reason to every situation that he was involved in . D.A. Rice feels that most people have the reason why they are the way they are but refuse to ask them self ; why? Or some people feel the pain is too great to bare the facts unless someone else is more qualified to point out your inadequateness . Never the less, D.A. Rice faced his own skeletons and wrote them down. Everyone has a story to tell , however in that story can a lesson be learned or can questions be answered? Thus , D. A. Rice has accomplished the first steps in self healing by facing the demons of his past and discontinuing suppressing them with in. To ask yourself , “what truly bothers you?,” is the first step in the self healing method if there is such a method.

D.A. Rice