CAN YOU
FIND MY FIVE(5) ANIMAL SPIRIT GUIDES?
For
Richard Aubrey Payne
The love of my entire life…
Edward
M. Fuerte…when I first laid eyes on him I got light headed!
My passion is ...
I love books, music,
television and good movies.
I know too much about ...
Native American Culture
My parents always told me
...
Obey The Ten Commandments
My childhood ambition ...
Become governor, then Senator,
then President...
My favorite memory ...
Being in the outdoors with my
kid brother!
Why I write ...
To share with others.
What I am
reading/watching/listening to ...
Another Non-Fiction book, CNN
& Neil Diamond’s or Cleo Laine's CDs
My first job ...
Selling newspaper
subscriptions in Anaheim California for the Orange
County Register newspaper
My best moment ...
When my daughter Kea was
born... which is tied with when my son Iean Thomas was born!
My inspiration ...
My two grandsons!
My Happiest Moments…
When
I am on the back of my old horse with my little dog running along our side as
we climb up into the beautiful Colorado
Rocky Mountains watching a new day break or come to an end!
What I believe…
God
IS ‘LOVE’! We start out
trying to love our selves, once accomplished, we try to love each other,
and it is only in perfecting those two things that we come to loving our God! October 4th which is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi
should be a National holiday honoring the animals we share the planet with! The
donkey or burro should be officially made the mascot of the American Democrat
Party! Rebuilding our aging infrastructure should be made a domestic priority.
Tripling the size of the Army Corps of Engineers & the Navy Seabees should
become a National priority, leading to replacing the War Department with the
Peace Department. The world’s problems
can only be solved IF we can learn to better communicate with one another! ALL
Americans deserve a warm bed to sleep in, good food to eat, clean air and water
and decent healthcare and education! These things amount to truly loving our
neighbors as we love ourselves! Our future is on the floor of our oceans
and in outer space!
I have always been a great story teller. I hope that these pictures convey my story.
Dear Readers:
I was asked to
describe what I want to accomplish with my books. Okay
here is my humble effort to answer that.
“I want to
produce books that everyone can and
will read, that are more intuitive,
more thoughtful, and even more useful in terms of understanding more
complex issues. And maybe even fun if it truly does everything I want
it to do. Thinking about even the most complex and difficult ideas should be
fun,
otherwise why
read it?”
“Yes I want my books to use or be solidly
based on what the reader feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; I want the material
to feel instinctive to them. I want them to balance what their hearts
& heads tell them. I want to help my readers cope! I am not opposed to conscious reasoning but I would rather
my readers to focus on the bigger ideas rather than the smaller ones. I want
them to be able to see the whole forest and the diversity of all the individual
plants and animals that live there. I don’t want them to be afraid of the most
complex issues.”
“For example,
most people know, that researchers
have found that suicide among
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender youth (LGBT) is comparatively higher than
among the general population. Getting people to really care is a huge issue. This saddens me greatly. According
to some groups, this is linked to our largely heterocentric cultures
and institutionalizedhomophobia in some cases, including
the use of LGBT people as a political wedge issues like in the contemporary
efforts to halt legalizing same-sex marriages.
Some very sick & twisted people even use these issues to get elected to
political office. Depression and drug use among LGBT people have both been
shown to increase significantly after new laws that discriminate against gay people are passed, yet the continue
to be passed all the same. Future books & film projects will be written and
designed to address these issues.
God commands in Leviticus 19:18 that ‘Thou
shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against any the children of thy
people, but thou shall love thy all neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.’
And, God knows I do try. When I read this I did not see except for Republicans,
or queers, or blacks or anyone else…God wants us to love ‘ALL’ of our neighbors…and accepting them killing themselves and
becoming depressed and using drugs to a much greater extent is NOT an example of love as I
understand it to be.”
“I also want to
address the issues of animal cruelty
and abuse. I want to leave this old
world with the same creatures and plants that were here when I was born for my
children and grand children to enjoy and get to know and love. I know that is
not possible but I am going to keep trying just the same. I want to be seen by
God as a good steward over that which he has entrusted me with.”
“I want to write
books and make films and movies and do documentaries that tackles racism, sexism, prejudice, homophobia, poverty, hunger, children’s issues and issues adversely
impacting the other living creatures humans must share this planet with in
meaningful, caring, compassionate, thoughtful and loving
ways. I hate war and I will not rest until I help mankind out grown the need
for it! We have far more important things that we must focus on and deal with!”
“If even thinking
about issues like these bothers you, then simply stated, I do not want you as a
reader of mine…I have not got the time to waste of stupid, thoughtless, uncaring, selfish and inconsiderate people
like you must be!”
“I love everyone without regard who they are orwhat
they think, but I am focused
on building a more respectful, thoughtful, loving, caring, considerate and compassionate world with any discrimination,prejudice, racism, sexism, homophobia, cruelty
or intolerance such as that blinding so many people today.”
With Love Always!
Richard A. Payne
Romans
13:8 “Owe no man any thing, but to love
one another: for he that loved another
hath fulfilled the law.”
Galatians
5:14 “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.”
1
Peter 4:8 “Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for lovecovers a multitude of sins.”
1 Corinthians 13:4 “Love is
patient, love is kind. It does not
envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”
1 Peter 1:22 “Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying
the truth so that you have sincere love for
your brothers, love one another
deeply, from the heart.”
~*~
I do
not know how many times I could cite bible passages similar to these but too
many to list…God wants us to love one
another and it is just that simple! God is LOVE and
to know him we must first love
ourselves, then love others and it
is in doing those two things perfectly we come to know Him & love Him!
I dolove you!
Collaborating…
Rick loves collaborating on his projects. For him to work jointly on an activity, to
produce or create a film, book or article for a magazine anything really but especially in an intellectual endeavor the work then becomes a labor
of love. Many of his books and a few of his best magazine articles and all of
his films have involved including the work or artists, photographers and other
experts in their area of art. He has never co-written anything but he has hopes
of doing that someday. He would love to see his short stories turned in scripts
for films. He would also like to see several of them turned into comic books.
As a very young boy he learned to read with help from his older sisters and
comic books! He loves comic books! He gets excited when an artist can see what
in in his head or heart and draw or paint it. He calls it magic and he gets
real excited when that has happened with artists like James Griffin (The Real Reel Indians), Mickey
Schilling (Collin The Canada Goose,Charlie The Shy Cowboy and
several other projects), Dot M. Speiser (The
Banjo & The Telescope, The
Woodsman & The Star and Hattie
Hart & The Flower Doctor) and Dale Crawford who Rick is currently
working on several projects with. When another creative person sees what Rick
is writing about it delights him and he hope others can then better visualize
his stories as well.
Of late, Rick has been collaborating with translators who
take his words and try to find the best words in other languages like Spanish,
Russian, Chinese and Arabic to share his stories in. It is not just the words
but the cultures that end up getting reflected and Rick takes this process very
seriously. He has worked with people like Eduardo Mario Fuerte, Yury
Oshmyansky, Elena Rabinovich, Geyong Soong and Dr. Mohamed A. Shahba who in
addition to dealing with English and Arabic languages and the cultures,
politics and religions that accompany them also had the challenge of the botany
which the story was based on. Richard had originally become interested in Dr.
Mohamed A. Shahba’s work on the germination of seeds in salt water. Rick would
love to see the dry lands and desserts of the world brought to life with water
from the oceans of the world. The truth is Rick has a vast understanding of
water and water cycles and reads everything he can on the subject and he is a
Master Gardener himself.
Rick’s books never talk down to the readers but rather tries to
encourage readers to explore other areas than just the central areas of his
stories. Rick is fascinated by how other cultures through their languages treat
thoughts and ideas like love, water and food. It is important for him to help
others to understand that sometimes other cultures may have many words which
are more specific than English is for some words and exactly how they are being
expressed. He often talks about two fish talking to one another about fire,
something which doesn’t and can’t even exist in their world of water and that
fish sometimes conclude their lives being cooked over a fire that perhaps they
can not even express in their language. Rick wants people to learn languages so
they can think about things in ways that is impossible without the addition of
a different language.
Rick is not only a wise man and an intelligent man, he is a very
loving, caring and compassionate man, who I sometimes wonder if the world
deserves. He understands exactly how people learn language and to communicate
and his most recent books also bring this to bear on the reader. He is a writer
that the world needs now more than ever before. Collaborating with people
who become his friends is how Rick prefers to work!
Biography
