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Creative non-fiction. Journalistic facts. Literary imagination. Unpleasant facts are littered through this work like landmines, lovers, literary outlaws, educational malaise, geography, butterflies, rice, luck and sex. Lucky Foot taught English at The Language Company in Turkey in 2008. He returned in 2012. Creating field notes. A Vietnam veteran, journalist and facilitator of courage he's been gifting luck to people in China, Turkey, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos since 2004. He showed up to sit for a spell nurturing positive relationships in the long now. Accompanied by Humour and Curiosity he helped students speak English with fluency minus their illusions of fear and phobia's relatives: Fear of taking a risk. Fear of being incorrect. Fear of peer ridicule. Fear of poverty. Fear of starvation. Fear of being ordinary. Fear of success. Fear of abandoning a manuscript by Zeynep entitled The Language Company. Fear of accepting responsibility for their choices Dear of accepting the consequences. Fear of letting go of old conditioning. Shadows. Fear of being alive and real. Growing. Fear of_______. (Your free choice) Lucky, Humour and Curiosity observed parents, schools, and religions fostering passive acceptance, fear, indifference and rote learning teacher controlled systems. It was all about passing exams, not learning how to be more human and think for your self. Status quo. Sheep mentality. Blend in. Questions are forbidden. Authority washes your brain daily. Zeynep, his young genius friend in Bursa, Turkey taught him about life in her totalitarian country. I say what others are afraid to say. Anxiety is a chronic national problem. Adults here are good at two things, eating and fighting. Dissent is terrorism say our corrupt manikin authority figures. Leo, the Chief of Cannibals revealed dystopian China. I spent years carrying word shit in a Re-education through Reform Labor Camp for questioning Authority. Everyone here belongs to the Big Ears, No Mouth society. Oh the shame. Rita, the independent author of Ice Girl in Banlung shared stories about Khmer culture and Cambodian history. We've had twenty years of hopelessness. We breed. We work. We get slaughtered. Poor people see education as a waste of time and money. Rice comes first. I dream I am a free person in a free country. A seven year-old Vientiane kid explained Laos. I develop my authentic character with critical thinking skills, gratitude, abundance and wonder as an independent individual. If you want to do great things you must take great risks and suffer greatly, said Zeynep. You either let go or get dragged along. Awareness. Mindfulness. Compassion. It's not about people buying this book, Zeynep said. It's about people reading it. He is the author of: A Century is Nothing, Subject to Change, Ice Girl in Banlung, My Name is Tam, Death Worship in Nam, and Two Hearts on a Grand Precious Adventure. He has published Street 21, a photography book on Yangon, Burma and Journeys, a photography book of Asia. Journeys: www.tmleonard.com/
About the Author: He is a Vietnam veteran, author, photographer and TEFL facilitator of English in Asia. He celebrates having genetic variant DRD4/7. He has helped others develop courage to speak English in China, Turkey, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. He has ten years experience of international hotel management in Canada, Kuwait, Australia, Saipan, Bali, Beijing and Shanghai. He has published: A Century is Nothing, Subject to Change, Ice Girl in Banlung, Death Worship in Nam, Two Hearts on a Grand Precious Adventure and Journeys, a photography book of Asia. His web site is Journeys at: www.tmleonard.com/


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781502702609
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 585 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1502702606
  • Publisher Date: 03 Oct 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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