Hot tears ran down my cheeks, and I dropped to my knees. My phone slipped out of my hand, bouncing off the edge of my ratty second-hand coffee table, and landed on the floor. Holtrop, Author, "Wall of Fire" and coming soon, The Revelation No matter our economic state, social status, cultural background or skin color, we are all valuable and deserving of love by practicing the art of caring for each other. This extraordinary memoir will touch hearts, and perhaps even change how we view each other.
A chance meeting with a successful artist, someone who saw him as a person equally as valuable as himself, changed everything for both of them.
Throughout the painful circumstances of his life, a caring heart continued to beat. We feel the struggle to redeem himself, and become someone of value. We come to realize the significance of belonging to a gang, when a person has been marginalized in other aspects of their lives. We feel his pain, sadness and isolation, growing up in the projects on the South Side of Chicago. As he describes his childhood, it’s as if we are sitting with him and hearing the emotion. The memoir is his story, masterfully told in his own voice by author Marla Jacobson. The other, homeless, alienated from family, barely surviving each day. One, a thriving artist with a home and family in an affluent suburb. It’s an account of two men from vastly different circumstances, who gave each other the gift of healing. The title illustrates the unique meaning of this memoir. The artist opting, after a year of greetings and countless tips, to welcome a virtual stranger into his heart, home and family, transforming his life, is nothing short of divine intervention. The artist giving the same African-American StreetWise vendor a two-dollar bill when this man stood in front of the coffee house isn’t a coincidence. The other is as though everything is a miracle.Īn upper middle-class suburban artist stopping at the same Starbucks each morning, en route to his Chicago studio isn’t a coincidence. There are only two ways to live your life. K.L.įor Mark Jacobson: simply the best Dad my favorite person of all time. Artistic license has been taken in other areas for continuity purposes.įor Ed: This is dedicated to the man I choose to call Father. Artistic license has been taken by the author, so any errors are mine exclusively. Stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotation in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the author.Īlthough this is a memoir, many names have been changed for privacy purposes, and it’s an account of one individual’s personal viewpoint and memory of events that happened many years ago.
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