The Colour and Power of Your Thoughts is a uniquely sublime offering from Jamaican writer-thinker J.D. Gordon. It is an inspirational picture book born out of the author’s colourful life experiences: a kaleidoscopic fusion of wit, wisdom and enchanting photography that impregnates readers’ thoughts with reasons to live and gives answers to some of life’s most pertinent questions. By taking the readers on an enlightening, empowering cruise on the wings of its prose and stunning imagery, this inspirational work ends up showering hope and serenity on today’s volatile, stressful world – making it, at once, a timely and timeless collection. The book is written in a very easy-to-read format and covers a wide subject area, including love, attitude, music, dreams and one’s environment. Each photo helps in bringing meaning and life to each thought.

READERS’ BENEFITS

Readers will be inspired, challenged and entertained. It will certainly change readers’ negative outlook on life or augment their positive perception. ‘Think twice!’ is the response that this book will provoke in the minds of its readers. Its captivating and stunning photos and imagery will capture the eyes and hearts of professional, as well as amateur photographers and artists. Readers are bound to find something new, something refreshing and something with which they can connect. After reading and meditating on this proverbial collection, one’s life will not automatically be super, but it will definitely be better.

RECOMMENDATION

These thoughts are also provocative and can be used by speech-makers and writers who need pertinent truths to illustrate their points or just to add ingredients to life. The book connects with its readers and is recommended for students, professionals, Christians, talk-show hosts, photographers and just about anyone who enjoys reading. It is both a book to keep and a book to give. It makes an ideal gift. The book is available in bookstores, selected pharmacies and gift shops islandwide, as of November 27, or at www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.xlibris.com and www.borders.com You may also email: orders@xlibris.com or colouryourthoughts@gmail.com.

What inspired me to tells this story It has always been my childhood dream to be an author. In high school, my peers really enjoyed reading my short stories and my poetic expressions in a song or in a poem. I was then asked to serve on a team that would create a newsletter for Kingston College called K.C. Vibes.

Since I became an adult, I observed and concluded that far too many persons had something to say and never bothered to say it. Too many had nothing to say yet kept saying it. I also concluded that the graveyard was overflowing with many of our ancestors who should have passed on wisdom, will and wit to the next generation, but were too taken up with life itself. It was at that time I started to write my life lessons.

Every year, since 2003, I would write simple, but profound lessons that could be learnt from an ant, a bee or even a tree. I was maturing in being God-inspired and so began to find meaning in things/events/words and circumstances that were considered meaningless by others. I also started hearing and feeling the thrumming of music from the regular routines of life.

God spoke to me and instructed me to write these lessons and share them with the world. Most of the book was written over a two-month period as I was saturated with moments of inspiration.

About the author

J.D. Gordon has created numerous quality writings, including poetry and songs, on various topics. He discovered his talent and love for writing in his early teenage years while attending high school (Kingston College). This was in the 1980s when pen-friend communication was a very popular and fulfilling hobby for many young Jamaicans. J.D. is also an accomplished musician, composer, arranger and music producer. He spends most of his leisure time training and coaching people to sing, and has been a director of music for over 10 years in several churches. He is highly motivated and is able to transfer his enthusiasm to the attendees of his energised motivational presentations. He believes there is nothing as important as people, and that everyone is special. With over 20 years of experience in writing, he has dedicated his first book to those in search of a meaningful life.