GLORIOUS RUINS
A Memoir of Maximus Heart
Culled from over 40 years of personal, handwritten journal volumes, Glorious Ruins: A Memoir of Maximus Heart is one man's tales of the sacred and profane from inside an epic story of discovery, recovery, life, death, the wounds that break a heart and the healing that renews a soul.
Raw and in an authentic voice, these excerpts are disruptively honest in their transparency, fiercely intentional in their truth, and scandalously free in their story of redemption. MATURE THEMES & ADULT LANGUAGE INCLUDED
Introduction
"The stories began to write themselves in the blood of my heart."
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1 - Bronx Tales
"If Bronx moxie exists – inherited by the rights of sonship or bestowed by the streets themselves – it was mine for the taking at just five years old."
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2 - Place of the Owls
"Certainly not planned yet ultimately coincidental, our family made the transition in 1971 from The Bronx to the bucolic upstate town of Coxsackie, about one-hundred and twenty miles north of New York City."
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3 - Green Grass & Low Tides Forever
"Invariably, whenever people have asked me how I ended up in Kentucky from New York, I tell them the truth: I was kidnapped by my parents and held hostage against my will."
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4 - An Offer I Couldn't Refuse
"As a young boy growing up in The Bronx, I knew it was always one of those family moments that actually felt familial – where we would gather together in the living room while my mother pulled out the 8mm movie projector, set up the portable viewing screen, and opened up the film cases that held various canisters of home movies."
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COMING SOON! Chapter 5
"In total disclosure, there is no possible way that my experiences at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York could ever be captured within the sparse confines of a single chapter."
CHAPTER DRAFT COMING SOON!!
Some advance words on Glorious ruins:
"In Glorious Ruins, John Jamiolkowski does not simply tell his own story...he tells mine, too. Through his brutal honesty and brilliant, top-notch storytelling skills, he brings us into a tale that is - being so unapologetically human - the story of us all. In this gripping account of his life, he pulls back the curtain of the years and his own inner being, and in a daringly bold and compelling manner allows each one of us to see what we are ready to see in ourselves. His is a story of adventure and love; it is a story of loss and a hope that is beyond understanding. It is a story where the sacred and the profane dance side by side in a beautiful, dangerous, raw, redemptive glorious harmony...as they do in all our lives."
GEORGE STOIMENOV - Life Coach, Podcaster & Blogger, Founder of Men's Corner (www.menscorner.co.uk) & Author of "The Father-Wound" & "The Recovery of Innocence" (Available on Amazon)