“This first-hand account of life’s realities experienced by Richard in warfare and years of reflection as an airline pilot is powerful in its portrayal of gratifying, sobering and, at times, shocking truths we all need to face in life.”

 

                        —Rev. Dr. John R Howell, Executive Chairman, Transforming

Leadership, Inc.

 

 

“One has to know how well rounded Richard is to fully appreciate his fertile and productive mind. His ability to encapsulate complicated and controversial issues is represented in his style of haiku. They are thought provoking and emotionally stimulating. His ability to get to the core of issues is well suited to this form of poetry. This collection is timeless.”

 

                        — Ira L. Fox M.D., Psychiatrist

 

“Rich’s insightful journey into the embodiment of Truth lays a clear pathway toward personal transformation. His enriching haiku reveal the depth and yet simplicity of Truth for all who will delve into their enlightened depths.”

 

                       —Rev Kyle Horner, Sr. Pastor, River of Life (ROL) Worship Center

 

“I admire Rich’s ability to challenge me to think outside of the box and grow in my understanding that I AM lives in me. As I read Rich’s haiku, the Truth resonates inside of my being, quickening the realization that “as a man thinks in his heart so is he.” They contain potent statements that provide new viewpoints and word pictures of God’s love, grace and mercy for our lives.”

 

                    — Ron Connolly, Senior Vice President, Frontage Laboratories, Inc.

 

“We exist in a modern world of overpowering and relentless gray noise, bombarded and abased at every turn with a plethora of meaningless flat shades of vacant information, an overcast of empty platitudes. Through this morass of

numbing proportions comes Richard’s brilliant anthology – a sunburst of radiant colors to wash away the gray. Truth erupts from the pages in dazzling pyrotechnic fashion.”

 

— Frank Lyons, UAL 777 Captain; President, FJL Consulting,

USAF, retired

 

As in the art of oriental painting, where each stroke conveys meaning, Rich Hay has masterfully presented gems gifted to provoke and inspire; gracefully given with his heartfelt desire that each of us become one.”

      

                            — Linda Naimo, Artist and Contributor of the “Family Trees”

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