Words On A Wing By David Ridgway Summary
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Words On A Wing
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David Sanford Ridgway THE MUSIC OF WAVES
The sea sings a song of love and nature nurturing me
with its rumbling power humbling me as I walk in awe
of the spiritual peace and amazing love that the ocean gives us
and we need to love it back and not destroy its
soulful serenity with the poison of pollution we spew out every
day and clean the ocean as it clears our souls forever
- David Sanford Ridgway FATHER
Alone at a table listening to my father lecturing about
business and what I should do with my life losing
weight working never once congratulating me on recovery
walking on my knee living on my own living in my
bipolar world taking care of my own life but my
father is all about himself and being in control of
everyone and giving love with many conditions never
reaching out and touching my love and it must
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The author hopes that persons suffering from mental disorder will be shown as human and not psychotics.
Bio. David Ridgway comes from Pasco, Washington, a small town on the Columbia River. His father is an accountant who became a successful consultant. His mother, who passed away in 1992, came within six hours of getting her Masters degree. She instilled a love of reading to her children. David is the middle of an older brother and a younger sister. David started to exhibit signs of depression at age fourteen. This landed him in a mental hospital when he was sixteen years old. In 2011 while resting in a psyche ward, David started a stream of poetry which was cleansing and prolific. He sites an eclectic influence from Robert Frost to musical icons such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and the Beatles. This is his first book. He lives in Fairfax, California. Mr. Ridgway hopes his passionate poetry will show the world that bipolar disorder is both a curse and a
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