Black America, we are in a critical baseball-like position. We are in the last inning, the bottom of the 9^th,  the game is tied. The bases are loaded with two outs, and the last batter is up to bat. The umpire has called three balls and two strikes. As the pitcher winds up to  throw the ball, the crowd is yelling, “Let him walk you!” The batter’s instinct is telling him to hit a home run. What voice will he hear and listen to? This is called a fork-in-the-road position.

            The question is what voice will Black America hear? Dr. Claud Anderson has sounded the alarm for some forty-plus years. He has frequently appeared on national radio talk shows, lectured at colleges, universities, and for various organizations. He has written several books to bring awareness and enlightenment to the plight of Black America. He has shown us how we got into the economic ditch and has provided us a blueprint and road map on how to climb out of the economic deprivation and deplorable situations where we find ourselves today.

            Anderson, in his books Black Labor White Wealth, and PowerNomics: The Plan to Empower Black America, illuminates the problems and provides simple workable solutions that will change the present conditions for Blacks and the future destination for the next generation. Anderson garnished support from people around the country to invest in a business development in Detroit, Michigan. No other time in history had Blacks from other cities agreed to invest/move their business to another city to show support for Blacks anywhere. This action reflects the voice of the great Fannie Lou Hamer, who stated, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” Anderson is likened unto the biblical character John The Baptist crying in the wilderness.

            Well, we obviously did not hear those who have gone on before us. We have been told and we have been warned about what would become of us if we did not heed their voices. Who are we waiting for? Let me resurrect the words of some of our past leaders who tried to tell us. I will lay out some of their quotes that we neither heard nor abided by.

Booker T. Washington said to us, “Now is the time, not in some far-off future, but now is the time for us as a race to prove to the world that we have the ability and the inclination to do our part in owning, developing, manufacturing, and trading in the natural resources of our country. And if we let these golden opportunities slip from us in this generation, I fear they will never come to us in like degree again. Let us act … before it’s too late, before others come from foreign lands and rob us of our birthright.”

Blacks must not place their hopes for survival in the hands of our politicians as Dr. Anderson has warned us. Our climbing out of the ditch will not come as a result of voting, because it did not change our conditions, when we had greater numbers than any other race other than whites. So if it did not happen then, what are our chances now when we are outnumbered 8–9 times? Our Black votes have become null and void. Wake up and smell the coffee! Let’s see what Mr. Booker T. Washington had to say about politics, shall we? “We did not seek to give the people the idea that political rights were not valuable or necessary, but rather to impress upon them that economic efficiency was the foundation for every success.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said these almost exact same words: “The emergency we now face is economic.” We must believe that it is our birthright to partake of the riches of the world, and this is the faith that we must hold to. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also said, “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase.”

We must stand up and fight in every way possible and with all our strength to gain our rightful position in our society. If we had the strength to build this great nation with our tired hands, sweat, and blood, then we must gather up our strength to be respected and to share in its resources. Let the words of Malcolm X ring out in your mind: “By any means necessary.” Let’s not retreat. Our forefathers did not retreat, which got us as far as we did. We must not be afraid; we must not fear. Harriet Tubman once said, “I can’t die but once.” We are in a war, and in every war there will be casualties. Sister Rosa Park said, “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear, knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

We must unite to win this war against poverty and degradation; it will be no easy task. Frederick Douglass had the following to say: “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.” So stop talking about you being tired of fighting the system and asking why we have to fight so hard to get what’s due us. Don’t get tired; ask God for more strength to fight. Frederick Douglass also stated, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and deprecated agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning.”

Our brothers and sisters have spoken. When will we hear them? Dr. Anderson has warned us and told us what we must do to become economically sound. He gave us the recipe. We failed to take heed. Who and what are we waiting for? America as a whole is not a friend to the Black man. When will you understand this? W.E.B. DuBois had the following to say: “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardship.”

We must not fear getting angry. I know folk try to act like there is something wrong with getting angry, but there’s nothing wrong with getting angry. It is that very emotion that got us as far as we have gotten. Mainstream America would have you believe that it was the peaceful move by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that got us where we are. He did good, not just for us, but for them also. He softened the blows that were headed for those who took advantage of us. It was the Stokey Carmichaels, the Black Panthers, and others who brought about the greatest changes that benefitted Black folks—don’t forget about them; they did us good. America wants peace, but she does not want justice. I contend that peace and justice go hand in hand, and where there is no justice, there should not be peace.

Blacks must move from being sad to being angry, and rightfully so. How can you not be angry when every group has received reparation but Blacks? The Black Indians and the Black Freedmen are having to sue to try to get their economic benefits from the 1865 Treaty, while other are enjoying the benefits of free education, owning casinos, etc. Black farmers continue to fight for what’s owed to them. Blacks are told to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps while others are thrown a rope, a lifejacket, and ladder. Malcolm X said, “Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition, but when they get angry, they bring about a change.”

Every fight for Blacks must be everybody’s fight. Maybe you were not involved in the Black Farmers Discrimination lawsuits, the Black Freedmen/Black Indian lawsuits, and maybe you do not feel that you will get reparation. However, every one of these fights should be a fight that all Blacks should join in and fight for, for it will be that unity that will bring about the justice that’s due us. It will not happen with multiple small groups working individually trying to make it happen; it will take all of us pulling and pushing the wagon. Oh yes, the overclass is now feeling the pain. Many of them now finally realize that they are really Black. Even our Black politicians are running scared now.

Well, all I can say is this: We were told that there would be days like this, but we failed to believe those who told us. Who will we hear!?

Dr. Rosie Milligan, Internet Talk-Show Host, owner of Professional Business/Management Consulting Service, Estate Planner, author of Black America Faces Economic Crisis: Solutions Made Simple and co-author with her sister attorney Clara Hunter King of What You Need To Know Before You Start A Business. 1425 W. Manchester Avenue, Ste. B. Los Angeles, Calif. 90047; 323-750-3592; e-mail: Drrosie@aol.com; Web site: www.Drrosie,com

Ten year old article. 911- A Call for Poets and Writers to Speak up. Originally Published on Pageonelit.com.

http://www.pageonelit.com/Tragedy/MThompson.html

With each breath we take, our life changes. September 11, 2001 was a testament to this fact. As poets and writers, so many of us are trying to find the words to give shape to what we felt last week as a nation, and what we feel now. Whenever we’ve called 911, it is usually a critical life or death emergency situation. Since 9-11-2001, it is as though we, as Americans, have collectively sent up a 911 to God to help us in this time of peril.

Now I’m sending out a 911 call for writers to help us use language as a way of healing. We, as Americans, are caught up in an imbroglio-a confusing situation, which has us lashing out and doing hate crimes against other Americans, particularly Moslems. Why? Because we’re hurt. We’re afraid. We’re angry.

I was scheduled to do a conference on “Creating The life You love in Life part II” in San Diego. Motivational speakers such as Depak Chopra and Marianne Williamson were scheduled to be there as keynote speakers and guest. However, the conference was canceled. I was relieved. After all, planning to have a meaningful second career seems frivolous in light of all the lost lives of loved ones and the suffering so many families are going through.

Like many of the survivors, I’m feeling guilty, even paralyzed. I haven’t written a word in a week. How dare I have the audacity to sit around writing when people are suffering? That was my rationale. Besides, like the rest of the nation, I was speechless. This crime was as unspeakable as slavery.

So slowly, I’ve been trying to examine this space and give words to this “twilight zone” space we are now occupying. Over the past week, so many other writers have written me, between their tears, to say that they are feeling that their books are useless now. How dare they have the temerity to even write about their concerns, such as “keeping your virginity as teenagers,” “fighting AIDs and Herpes,” or writing their memoirs about how they beat the odds?

I felt the same way as I grapple with my recurrent theme of healing old family wounds. After all, we now have this great big gaping wound sitting at the heart of our nation–our government and our economy. I even questioned the value of my new novel, “The Hidden Sword,” dealing with the violence at the core of our most basic unit-the human family.

But the answer came to me. You must write it. The same rampages we’re seeing in the family-family members going on rages and killing up each other-are what we are now seeing on a global level.

Because you know what? As writers, we must write to help, and perhaps even save others. It was because of books, Amazon.com had the power and the ability to gather 6 million dollars in a week due to its relief fund.

Books and the words of poets/writers have the power to heal. As a counselor, I found that people often talk about their pains because they must. They must give words to what ails them in order to help heal themselves.

As writers, poets and publishers, we are still searching for the words to describe how our souls feel raped, violated and abused. We are moving through the same 5 stages of grief as any one who has suffered a death of a loved one.

Seeing our country devastated on our own soil is similar to what rape victims have disclosed to me in counseling. Being raped feels akin to being a stranger in one’s own skin. Right now, Americans feel violated. Boundary-less. Like there is no difference between you and the unsafe world out there.

Right now, school children are terrified. Adults are terrified. I am terrified. We are all feeling violated, raped, and afraid of another attack happening again. The false sense of security and the illusion of safety that we once harbored have been ripped from us with what happened to all the victims of September 11, 2001. Children orphaned, husbands and wives left as widowers/widows, and worse of all, parents facing the horror that doesn’t even have a word in our culture-that state of being–bereft of their own child/children.

What’s worse, we really can’t go through a stage of denial-the media and our nightmares about people trapped in twin towers won’t let us. So we’ve become paralyzed in anger.

We are now living in a world as fraught with peril and dangers as any other war torn country. Like many Americans my concerns are these. Are the cells still operative? Will this happen again when the airline standards relax? If the country goes to war, is this the start of the Final War-Armageddon as stated in Revelations 16:16? Now we are all understanding what it is to live in fear as many third world countries have done for years. Because we are afraid, we are angry. But in our anger, we could ignite World World III-the final war.

Therefore, as we move through the five stages of grief, shock, anger, denial, and finally acceptance, we must ask to be guided to find a spiritual solution to this crisis. As writers, it is our job to help others facilitate this process by finding the words to embrace what we are all feeling, in order for us to be move on and not annihilate the human race.

Book Review

Suzetta Perkin’s novel, Betrayed,   has such a riveting storyline, I read the book in one afternoon and couldn’t put it down. What made the read so compelling is that the characters felt so real, I could relate to all of them.

The major plot line reminds me of the first time I heard the term, Project Twins on the popular BET show, “The Game.” “Project Twins” is an urban term for when two women are pregnant by the same man and have a baby within close proximity of weeks or months of each other.

Ironically, this is just one of the family secrets in Suzetta Perkins’ latest novel, Betrayed. Setrina “Mimi” Bailey  has a nineteen-year old secret which comes home to roost when she moves to Durham, North Carolina so that her daughter, Afrika, can attend college there.

We learn that, while still in college, Mimi was raped by her best friend’s fiancé, Victor Christianson. This is a realistic scenario and sadly does happen. But what happens when Mimi marries someone else, doesn’t report the rape, or divulge the paternity of her daughter?

What happens when this rapist is allowed to continue to wreak havoc in others lives? What happens when this family secret opens a pandora box?

 Filled with suspense, this story has numerous twists and turns, which kept me glued to the page.

The story deals with topical issues, such as rape,  adultery, AIDS, HIV, and family secrets.

“Betrayed” truly proves the Biblical warning,  “You reap what you sow.”  I love this novel!  Great book, Suzetta. Keep them coming!

Reviewed by Dr. Maxine Thompson

“Show me your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are,” a special co-worker once told me. First, let me explain what special means. In Ebonics, we’ll say, ”She’s a special case.” Or if someone is not dealing with a full deck, but yet are loveable, we’ll say, ”She’s special.” So as you see, this was a ”gem” spoken out of a ‘’special” person’s mouth.
Although, at the time, I didn’t quite understand what she meant, I now know what she was talking about is called ”character.” In life, this could be a bad thing, but in fiction this is a good thing. Nothing works better for memorable fiction than strong characters with flaws. To get to the point, how does one create memorable characters? Sol Stein, in his book, Stein On Writing, points out that eccentricity is at the heart of all strong characterizations. In short, the most effective characters in fiction are to some degree bizarre.
Character is an essential part of the best fiction. Think of all the memorable characters in fiction. When you think of the books whose characters resound in your head, you don’t think about, well this happened and that happened, (plot), you generally think of who the protagonist was. Words such as ”Scrooge,” ”Pollyanna,” and even ”Uncle Tom” developed in our culture to express a personality, an outlook, a character trait. And in spite of my dislike for the Antebellum South, from my first reading at fifteen, Scarlettt O’Hara and Rhett Butler stenciled a place in my memory as colorful characters. (Who can ever forget Rhett Butler’s last sardonic words, ”My dear, I don’t give a d–?.”
As an African American, I grew up during the 50’s with no role models in my fiction. No archetypes that had any relevancy to my life. But now, I–and readers from all races– are blessed with a list of memorable Afrocentric characters. Janie ( who left 3 husbands), creator, Zora Neale Hurston. Sula, Milkman. Pilate. Sethe (who cut her baby’s throat rather than see her back in slavery). Creator, Toni Morrison. Nana Pouissant (who built bottle trees to protect her family), creator, Julie Dash/ Daughters of the Dust. Likewise, I’m hoping that my fictional characters–Jewel, Big Mama Lily, Nefertiti, Solly, Pharaoh and Reverend–will one day also become household names in the literary corridors of my reader’s mind.
Eccentricity has frequently been at the heart of strong characterization for good reason. Ordinariness is what readers have enough of in life. The most effective characters have profound roots in human behavior. Their richest feelings may be similar to those held by many others. However, as characters their eccentricities dominate the readers first view of them. The first time I encountered this is through the character of Pilate, from Song of Solomon. She has no navel, yet has the ability to communicate with her dead father. I am still haunted by her dying
Another reason character is so important in plotting your fiction is that people are different. The same tragic event can happen to two people and have different effects. One person can lose his job and never bounce back, and another will be galvanized by the same event. These are the types of points of departure you can examine in fiction through your characters.
These are the three major techniques I think will make the difference in creating memorable characters who leap off the page.
• 1) Point of view. Even if the character is eccentric, you should make the reader understand his world view.
• 2) Specificity in Details. Develop your character’s quirks, habits, motivations, and hobbies.
• 3) Challenges. Fiction that takes risks and challenges our smug assumptions about life.
Don’t just write about normal situations. Examine the human hearts and the depths of what people will go when faced with moral dilemmas. What will a mother do when she is broke and hungry and has children to feed?
To distinguish between plot-driven fiction and character-driven fiction is the same distinction you find between popular movies and serious movies. The former categories often satisfies you, but, like Chinese food, can leave you ravenous after a few hours. Character-driven fiction/movies will stick to your ribs like ‘’soul food.” It will make you examine the human heart and condition. Most of all, it often disturbs you like the book and movie, Beloved, yet you will find yourself driven to read these same books over and over.

WHILE YOU ARE IN YOUR RIGHT MIND

BY DR. ROSIE MILLIGAN

I used to hear my father, Simon Hunter, say in his prayers, “God, I thank you for waking me up in my right mind.” We children would laugh because we thought that everybody woke up in their right mind. Well, as years passed, I came to realize that many lie down at night and upon awakening, they don’t know where they are, who they are, and the time or today’s date. Some of the times their memory is lost for only a few moments, but other times, their memory is lost forever—just that quick.

In the old days, the church used to sing the song, “While the blood is running warm in your veins.” We laughed at that song also; we did not understand the meaning of the words. Today, I understand my father’s prayer and the old church song. There is now a face on the expression “while you are in your right mind”—it’s called competency, and when you are not in your right mind, it’s called incompetency—not able to make a sound decision for yourself. I know the interpretation of the song “while the blood is running warm in your veins.” It means that when the blood is running warm, you are alive, and when the blood is cold in your veins, you are dead.

What I am I saying? We need to make decisions about how we want to live and die while we are in our right mind. We need to designate who we want to distribute our assets upon our death or should we become incapacitated. We need to designate the person that we want to make health-care and financial decisions for us if we are unable to do so. I promise you that if you do not decide these issues while you are in your “right” mind, the person who you would least likely choose may be the one taking charge of your health-care and financial affairs.

Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are affecting so many people. Just recently, it was announced that a coach from Tennessee, in her late 50s, had been diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s. What’s my point? For a power of attorney for health-care and financial concerns, these documents need to be notarized and witnessed. If a person is suffering from dementia/Alzheimer’s disease, you may find it difficult to obtain a notary to notarize this document knowing of such a diagnosis. So do it while you are in your “right” mind.

The following is a very sad story. A month ago, I was made aware of a 79-year-old woman who rented a room to a male tenant. He befriended her and became her caretaker and gained her confidence. It was discovered this year by a relative that her Living Trust had been amended to add the tenant as a trustee and the sole beneficiary, deleting her only son who lives out of town from the trust. It was also discovered that a few years back, she had taken a reverse mortgage on her home and received $170,000 cash. No one knows what bank the money had been placed in, and she now no longer remembers and the male tenant no longer lives with her. This is what can happen when one is not in his/her “right” mind and when there is no one paying close attention to the seniors in their family.

I have been sounding the alarm for year, warning folks to get their personal and business affairs in order—and, yes, I am talking to you, so what are you waiting for? You need to handle your business while you are in your “right” mind and while the blood is running warm in your veins. Do the right thing for yourself, your children, and your family. I have articles posted on my Web site that you may want to read and share with others. Go to www.Drrosie.com and print them at no cost. These informative articles are: “Families Must Discuss Death & Dying,” “How Are The Elders Faring?” “It’s Time To Get In Your Children’s Business,” “It’s Time To Get In Your Parents’ Business,” and many more.

Dr. Rosie Milligan, author, publisher, minister, estate planner, and co-author of the book Departing This Life Preparations: What You Need To Know To Get Your Personal & Business Affairs In Order with her sister, Attorney Clara Hunter King. Address: 1425 W. Manchester Ave., Ste. B, Los Angeles, Calif. 90047; 323-750-3592; e-mail: Drrosie@aol.com; Web site: www.Drrosie.com

L.A. Blues is Maxine Thompson’s masterpiece. Told in first person by main character, “Z” short for Zipporah Saldono, you were witness to life in the mean streets of modern day Los Angeles with its overwhelming serving of gangs and drugs and, of course, a corrupt police department. You couldn’t help but root for “Z” with the opening scene, a young lady trying to move past her generational curse by bettering herself but is almost raped in an environment that had claimed her family, although she’s rescued by a passerby who becomes a pivotal person in her life years later.

As an abandoned and orphaned child, she wants to do better…she wants to make something of her life and reunite with her younger siblings–with her father having been killed for protecting her, her mother in prison for supposedly killing the man who killed Z’s father, and her brother, a notorius drug dealer in prison. But the life of a cop may not be the best coping mechanism as Z is reminded on too many occasions of what her life was like growing up as she hauls in drug dealers, gang bangers, and the other elements of the streets. And then she finds herself a target, the reason not immediately apparent but is somehow connected with the slaying of her partner.

There are so many elements to Z that most people can identify with. I was drawn to her resolve to fight when she was thrown off the force and had taken to the bottle to relieve the stress. Having her foster mother in her life was was a healing force and through all of her struggles it appears Z found what looks like real love.

This is a gripping tale that is so vivid it almost feels as if you’re living it. I was there every moment with Z, trying to protect her from the rapists, shielding her from the volley of bullets that ended her partner’s life, pulling her up from her drunken stupor to breathe life into her again…admonishing her not to give up and let Romero have a chance, to embrace her mother…especially when she learns the truth of her imprisonment, and being the best friend she could to Chica and Haviland. EXCELLENT READ!!’

Book Reviewer: Suzetta Perkins, Bestselling Author, Look for Upcoming Release, Betrayed. It’s a pageturner and a tearjerker.

http://www.suzettaperkins.com

Book: LA Blues
Book Reviewer: Francine Craft

I’ve greatly admired many of Dr. Thompson’s books, both fiction and nonfiction, but this time with her L.A. Blues which tells the story of Z Saldano who rose from harsh beginnings to become an L.A. cop, then to temporarily fail due to alcoholism and the death of her beloved partner. But Z is a survivor and she becomes a private investigator. While I found the entire book fascinating with no dead spots, it really kicked in for me with her entry into the shadowy world of investigation. I compliment Maxine on her masterly handling of what quickly became a nasty situation, with Z’s life in danger. I intended to read slowly because I so admire this woman’s writing, but that wasn’t possible. I wanted to know what happens next in a hurry.

The characters in L.A. Blues are deftly defined, and I identified with them. They’re all part of the multicultural stew we live in today and will be living in in the future. There are several scenes I will always remember. One is when Z, steeped in alcohol, is cavorting in bed with a lover she doesn’t really like, but who knows how to get it on. The turnon of their actions, then the very touching part of a man she really admires knocking on her door just to see if she’s all right brings a remarkable pathos into the story. This kind of depiction happens in Blues.The ending satisfied me as much as any book I’ve read. The lady is good, no doubt about it.

What I wish for Z and the people she knows: sequels, a series, and just maybe Tyler Perry to take a peek and fall in love the way I did.

Francine Craft, Bestselling Author, Book Reviewer: Francine Craft
http://www.francinecraft.com

So many people will write a book without proper editing. The book often has poor structure, no plot or the pacing is off. Some books do not have dialogue (when it is needed), low word count, poor title choices, etc… (Believe me the list can go on.)

Well, if you fall into any of these categories, this workshop will serve as an excellent tool to help you with your literary work. Literary agent Dr. Maxine Thompson from Los Angeles CA, is also a National Best Selling Author, Editor and hosts her own international radio show “Artist First”.

In addition, she has worked with literary greats Carl Weber (New York Times Best Selling Author), Rosalyn McMillan, Vickie Stringer, Sheila Goss, Michelle McGriff and myself (Roslyn Hamilton) to name a few.

Please join us as we share industry secrets in which we will provide you with information on structuring, dialogue, prologues, epilogues and so forth. <p>
You will need to be present in front of your computer for this exciting webinar. You will receive a link for the webinar after you register.

So please get your notepad & pen because tonight we are literally yours~

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Blog: How to Use Book Unveilings to Launch your Book.

 Yesterday, I witnessed with my own eyes the power of having a good network of friends. The author, Van T. Womack, is a very personable massage therapist.  His debut book, The Miraculous Power of Massage: The Handbook of Self-Repair, had over 50 people in attendance, and several more promised to give other book  parties. Not only did he do massages for those in attendance, he sold almost that many books within 3 hours.

Tips:

1. Before your book comes out, tell all your friends and enlist their aid.
2. Write a list of your friends as you build your list.
3. Ask your friends to give a party and invite their friends.
4. Have their friends you don’t know give you a book party.
5. Tell them to spread the word. Nothing sells like word-of-mouth.

Books are available nationwide. Books also available at Amazon, Kindle, and Barnes and Nobles.

Title: Fabulous Faces
Subtitle: From Motivation to Transformation through Facial Plastic Surgery
Author: Peter A. Adamson, M.D
Publisher: Osler Wood Enterprises
Release Date: 2011
ISBN-10: 978-0-9865742-0-7
Format Reviewed: Hard Back
Hard back: 266 pages
Language: English
Genre: Face-Surgery-Popular Works, Plastic surgery
Reviewer: Dr. Maxine Thompson
Email: maxtho@aol.com
http://www.maxinethompsonbooks.com
http://www.maxinethompson.com

Book Review:

Fabulous Faces: From Motivation to Transformation through Facial Plastic Surgery
By Peter A. Adamson, M.D.
Reviewed by Dr. Maxine Thompson

Do beautiful people have an easier time navigating the vicissitudes of life? Does how a person look on the outside, affect how he/she feels on the inside? Are people more comfortable with who they are when they get plastic surgery? These are just some of the questions posed in Dr. Adamson’s book, Fabulous Faces: From Motivation to Transformation through Facial Plastic Surgery.
In Fabulous Faces, you will find out not only what facial plastic surgery is, but why people opt to get augmentations/changes done in the firstplace.
The truth of the matter is that studies show that good looking people have an easier time in life, when it comes to getting jobs, getting married, and achieving success.
Although we say people are judged by how they are on the inside, the truth is, people make first judgments about you by how you look.
So who gets plastic surgery? Contrary to belief, plastic surgery is no longer just a luxury of the rich and famous.
Dr. Adamson sites example after example of ordinary people who felt they didn’t look normal. Sometimes, these flaws came from accidents, such as broken noses, but sometimes the patients felt they were born plain. Because their physical shortcomings were perceived as abnormalities in their mind, it shaped their entire way of relating to others throughout their lives.
However, after plastic surgery, the patients felt normal and, that transformation in itself, boosted their self-confidence and self esteem. Clearly, looking better made a person perform better and gave them more self-fulfillment.
Dr. Adamson’s book is an eye opener for the public. Another myth he debunks is that mainly women get plastic surgery. He showed cases where men have opted for plastic surgery. Ageism is alive and well, and many men, as well as women, in business, have to compete with younger colleagues.
With the coming of age of the Baby boomers, whose generation defined perpetual youth, we will probably see even more plastic surgery in the years to come. This is the first time in history that people have an option to look better, if they feel mother nature didn’t give grace them with good looks.
Fabulous Faces is a recommended read for those who want to enhance how they look, or for people growing older, who want to compete in a younger global society.
This book will help you understand plastic surgery is more than just a physical alteration, but often a change of a person’s outlook, heart, and spirit.