From This Far Time is a labor of love. I envisioned it to be a poetry "time capsule" for future generations who might have some curiosity about the first part of human history. It would be impossible, of course, to include the whole of that story, so I've simply touched on significant events that have had an impact on my life and millions of others. It begins from the sea with the mud-borne and continues on through the war-torn. This is my fiercest writing to date, taut and terse as bleached bones Whatever your own concept of God...omnipotent or myth or not sure...our beginnings remain of deep interest. Personally, I think that this vast, complex universe is beyond knowing. We touch but the hem of its magnificence, its mysteries, in our strivings. That said, this work is written from what I've absorbed of the few things we think we know. I've tried to give future societies a glimpse and a taste of where we so miserably failed, with the hope that they will remember...and do better. (Paraphrasing esteemed British author, Oscar Sparrow, in his review of my book below.) That, indeed, is my calling...my prayer...my life's work.