The Judgement is the Mirror

This book is about judgment. It is about the judgments we make, and the lessons they hide. If you have ever felt disappointed by your own unkind behavior during an argument, this book is for you. It helps you peer into your harshest outbursts, where uncharted regions of your self lie hiding. As you explore these obscure territories, they become less frightening. You annex and inhabit them. The next time an argument strays onto that terrain, it won’t seem so foreign. You’ll be calmer and freer to choose your response – on newly settled grounds... ...This book appears to be a collection of poems. It isn’t. Poems in a book can usually be read in any order. That is not true of this collection. The terms and concepts of this book develop sequentially. You need to read it from beginning to end at least once to become familiar with the funny little language this book speaks. On subsequent readings you can review the entries in any order, without being left wondering what some of the terms might mean.