Reflections and Perspectives

A Collection of Personal Feelings and Thoughts

by Louis M. Vaughan

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An insightful new collection of poems and essays that offer warm reflections on past relationships and brave perspectives on current social issues.

The carefully crafted poems of Vaughan’s “Reflections” section focus on those ephemeral moments of love that have lasted a lifetime as the treasured memories of the author and that will prompt a similar nostalgia and warmth in any of us who have loved and lost:

Once upon a time
you touched me, and,
just as a candle flickers
when first lit,
so it seemed that love flickered in me.
(From "A Fairy Tale")

We shared a lot together, and
for a moment,and
for what now seems a fleeting moment,
we shared love.
(From "Sharing")

The essays and poems of Vaughan’s “Perspectives” section, meanwhile, discuss openly and honestly the controversial racial, political and religious influences that are so often rationalized, minimized or denied in our society and which -- because they are expressed so candidly here -- may help all of us to become more introspective:

The closer you are to being white, the more acceptable you are. As a custom, not a legal mandate as in South Africa, American apartheid is more insidious.
(From "American Apartheid")

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Paperback
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Black & White Paperback, 61 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Mar 30, 2011)
ISBN10: 1432765671
ISBN13: 9781432765675
Genre: POETRY / General

Author Information...

Louis Vaughan migrated from Barbados to the United States as a teenager. In 1962, he graduated from Brooklyn College with a bachelor degree in Biology; and in 1981 earned a masters degree in Public Administration from Central Michigan University.

Upon graduating from Brooklyn College, he joined the United States Air Force and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. In 1987, he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel.

After retiring from the Air Force, he worked for the Commonwealth of Virginia as a counselor in the Department of Employee Relations Counselors, and for the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System as a director in the human resources department. For three years, he taught an undergraduate human resources management course at the University of Mary Washington.

He has two children and five grandchildren. He lives with his wife, Linda, in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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