Everything Else Included

About the Book

This publication reflects upon a multitude of themes:  relationships, daily occurrences in life, friends, society, and history.  The author has tried to present the emotional feelings of both sides in the various stages of relationship development.  Men and women ultimately fail to bring possible relationships into the realm of positive development  because of false perceptions they assume about the other person.  Both sides are afraid to openly communicate thus destroying possible relationships in their embryonic stages of development.

Daily occurrences of life affect all of us at one time or another.  Every time our routine is affected, our schedule is thrown off center; our emotional makeup creates stressful overtones for those we come in contact with.  Some of these situations we recover from quickly; some of  them linger in the back of our mind for extended periods of time.

Friends have a profound effect  upon our life style.  Just when we feel we know someone very well they take their behavior mode in a new direction causing us confusion while planting the seeds of doubt in our relationship.  Some of these situations are corrected through open diologue; some are destined to remain as we remember them during the last visual contact with this person.  Thus all of us at one time or another want to “Turn Back The Clock” and do some repair work.

Leaving our house in the morning we come in contact with strangers.  Depending upon circumstances once in a while our paths cross as we develop contact.  Some assumptions of others are pleasant and grow with the passage of time.  Others are ill fated through bad vibrations at the start and have to be severed as soon as possible for our own personal well being.

Each of us has a personal history to reflect upon in our memory bank.  Thoughts upon family, the town or city where we grew up, a special someone whom we lost contact with all enter into our thoughts from time to time.  Again pleasantness and sadness come together as we reflect upon what is and what might have been.  We conduct a personal rite of damage control upon our psyche not wanting to dwell on the past nor exhibit  fear or apprehension about our future.

Readers:  Enjoy:  Take a moment to remember your past and to prepare for your future within the total realm of your ability to do so.

About the Author

Stanley R. From has spent his entire life in the state of New Jersey.  He has received his BA from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky; he has received his MA from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey; and trained to become a school teacher in History.  Mr From has spent his entire work career in service to veterans through the Department of Labor for the State of New Jersey.

Mr. From is single.

Everything Else Included is his second book

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I first began writing poetic verse on behalf of my fellow recruits at the Great Lakes Naval Station in 1970.  I offered them some verse to impress their girlfriends when responding to Dear John Letters they received in the mail.  I took up writing original verse again in 1977 entertaining a fellow tenant at my last location of residency in Irvington, New Jersey

In July 2003 after becoming the victim of a social misfortune  that escalated in scope I once again turned to writing as a form of therapy to cure my depression like tendencies.  My first book 300 Additional Reasons To Appreciate Me was the result.  Each of the submitted selections in this book represents a story in itself.  “I HAVE NEVER ENROLLED IN ANY CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES”  Everything written down on paper reflects whatever came into my head at a specific moment in time.  My observations reflect a “Tell it like it is” philosophy.

I sincerely hope that this publication will favorably affect public opinion giving those out there some renewed hope in their struggles in dealing with people.  Those in a group representing the power of the majority  SADLY OFTEN UNDERESTIMATE the power of “ONE”  residing in the shadows hidden from public view.