Metamorphosos: A Proposed Path To Independent Living - 9781959895732

Eston Eugene Roberts was born in New Orleans, LA, on April 12, 1932, to Arthurlene Sutton and Carl Daniel Roberts. His mother worked as a hotel maid and his father, some years older than his wife, was a traveling magazine salesman who abandoned his wife and two children in 1936. The family of three then relocated to Damascus, GA, where they lived for a time with a great-uncle named Gary. Within a year, Eston's mother re-married, and the family moved to a large log home on the edge of Hilburn Hammock in an adjoining county. In addition to his stepfather's parents, the house was already home to four siblings, and the addition of three new family members made, understandably, a stressful situation. His mother, essentially a city girl, was shown no sympathy for her lack of agricultural competence, and the two older girls banded in tandem, forcing her to do their laundry. It was no coincidence, given these pressures, that his mother began to suffer foaming- at-the-mouth seizures, and he remembers retreating to the north end of the long front porch and screaming "Help! Help! Help!" at the top of his lungs. Over time, escaping that feeling of helplessness became the lodestone of his life. Eston's stepfather was a hard taskmaster--opening often that he was doing a man day's work at nine years of age and was quick to point out Eston's failures to measure up, occasioning the defensive remonstrance: "I don't care, I'm not going to be a farmer anyway!"-a vow he was able to keep, having spent most of his working years as a college administrator and teacher of English. Eston and his late wife, Dorothy, were brought into the world five children, all of whom have showered his life with blessings. Metamorposos seeks to re-define meta-phor as the source of everything on the planet, providing, in the process, a rationale for independent living, a suggested path for liberation from the hypocrisy of religions and reflexive living, and the wherewithal to assume responsibility for a self-directed existence based on the concept of grounded integrity. The author is pleased to acknowledge his indebtedness to the metaphor that is quantum mechanics.

• | Author: Eston E. Roberts
• | Publisher: West Point Print And Media Llc
• | Publication Date: Jun 12, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 440 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1959895737
• | ISBN-13: 9781959895732