Life is a Song in the Key of Love
I’m very thrilled that my self-published book: Life is a Song in the Key of Love OR Growing Up With the Embarrassment of Prejudice is finding a home with souls who have been drawn to it.
It was quite a journey, reaching the point of self-publishing the book in 2009.
It started with the idea popping into my head in 1998 at a New Year’s week, yearly planning workshop. The title: Growing Up With the Embarrasssment of Prejudice popped into my head and started to inspire and marinate.
I immediately began to write notes and be inspired by quotes from different media – all applying to my book.
It was inspired by my personal life experience of growing up in a small Steel Town in Pennsylvania, in the early 1960′s.
Being 3rd generation Hungarian, I dealt with cultural bias, as well as experienced social bias as well as viewed racial bias.
This inspired me to write an Autobigraphical/Philosophical discussion on my early life experiences as a child, with bias, stereotype and racism. I saw all this from a point of view where the adults around me didn’t FEEL the bias, stereotypes and racism, but acted on what they had INHERITED from their ancestors.
I wasn’t able to write the book till I discovered the song: Life is A Song by Fred Ahlert from the 1930s. There was a key line in the song: Let’s take our hearts and dip them in rhyme. I was so inspired by the song and its beauty, I sang it an an INTERFAITH service, and watched at the attendees from all faiths, sat there listening, some with their eyes closed, taking in the beautiful words.
That was when I realized, I could NOW write my book, but from a gentle perspective of comparing social, cultural and racial bias to the way sheet music produces such a beautiful sound, even though – to the untrained eye – it looks like a mess of lines, dots, swirles, etc.
If sheetmusic could be so diverse and produce such a beautiful sound, why couldn’t we with all our diversity?
I’m adding this to my blog in hopes of bringing awareness to my self-published book, which is available on lulu.com as well as my own website: www.lafolot.com. It’s also available on the internet via Amazon and other online book sales.
If this topic speaks to you, I invite you to take a dive into my book, and allow it to open your mind and open you and others to discussions on your own life experiences and questions relating to social, cultural and racial bias – and look at how to MAKE LIFE A SONG!
Helen of Lafolot
Motivating and Inspiring Others
Have a beautiful day!
