The Invisible Backpack

Transformative, excitement, emotional and tears of joy, releasing trauma from the past and life's unnecessary pain. Opening up backpacks everywhere. My presentation is exciting, personal and real. I've created a new dance called "The Twitch" and I give Young Folks hope and inspiration that there is another way. Simply put, it's new, it's different and it's captivating. I look forward to sharing my story across the world. Thank you for the opportunity

"Retired educator overcomes Tourette's Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder to write the award-winning inspirational book The Invisible Backpack, “A Life Of Courage” is bringing his powerful message to schools."

Aloha,
I am a retired teacher and principal from Northern California, Del Norte County to be specific. Home of the giant redwoods and the beautiful Smith River, the cleanest river in the continental United States. I taught first grade and I was at elementary and middle school principal for the remainder of my career. I was the principal of my own Elementary I attended, the middle school I attended, and was the principal of my kindergartens teachers school they named after her and I put her into retirement. I am the quintessential "Little Billy". Schools was extreme challenge academics I could not do. I've never read a book cover to cover and never pass a language arts class. I've got through life differently. I don't know what a coma is used for and I really am not concerned. I'm more concerned about love, life and passion for human beings. Being kind and gentle to each other is lost in today’s society. Currently, I reside in beautiful St. Augustine, Florida as an author and motivational speaker. My 1st book entitled, The Invisible Backpack, "A Life of Courage", is a rhythmical story of my life. I write in complete rhyme and I speak half my presentations as such. I'm the only one doing what I do and the message is captivating.
When I begin in rhyme, I immediately have the audience's attention. The message then becomes more clear and extremely well received. I am a unique individual and proud of my life. I live life with acceptance, patience, tolerance, and love and something new everyday. For the next 30 years of my life I get to share with the world how to overcome life's struggles, whether it's Tourette Syndrome, bipolar disorder, eating, gambling, food disorders, etc, it's all about self love. Sigmund Freud said his key to success in his life's message was about hard-work and love.

What Is Your Number

If love truly is the answer and self love is the key

What is your number, mine was 53

It's never too late to love yourself for who you are inside

People will judge you if they what they want, no reason to
ever hide

For once you experience the love I found and who you want to be

You will have the opportunity to set yourself free

Being trapped in one's head is never a pleasant place

Speaking from your heart can be seen upon your face

Remember you die once you get to live everyday

Find that self love and start another way

Today is an opportunity to give yourself a break

Love is the answer it's time for you to wake

This opportunity, again, to share with young people how to be individuals, how to accept themselves for who they are and as they're meant to be. On the back of The Invisible Backpack is this message. It was written by a reader and the description is called Why The Invisible Backpack.

The Invisible Backpack is a labor of love created from a lifelong struggle to come to terms with who the author is and accept himself as he's meant to be. We all born with an invisible backpack on our backs. It's where we put the hurts of life. When we are young and courageously climb the stairs of life, it is extremely light and we really don't know what's there. As we get older it gets heavier with whatever grief, pain or trauma we experience. Unfortunately resist taking these feelings out of our backpacks and letting go of them. Some of us hold on to them so tightly we forget to make room for the things that lighten our load, forgiveness, acceptance, tolerance and love. For if we put these items in our backpacks it will cancel out all the negative things we've been holding on to and our life Journey become much lighter.

In my life time I get to share with young folks and adults across the world how to overcome, persevere and engage in self-love and self-respect. The most used word in The Invisible Backpack is God and the second most used word is love. I truly believe that we all have a Creator and we all have a purpose. When we find love in that process we get to experience a life we never knew. There’s no reason for young people to have to suffer an entire lifetime when we can identify early, provide long-term treatment, and use medication if necessary, to overcome the traumas that we have placed upon society.

Children Are So Precious

How can anyone get so mad they must abuse a child

They have so much joy to give us in a manner that is so mild

They are so honest in the way that they speak and how they judge us all

Don't abuse that child's morale, let them stand up tall

Remember what it was like to crawl before you could walk

Please don't strike that child sit down and have a talk

Show them what's like to believe in a Holy Spirit

Don't show them your pain in agony and let them feel your hurt

Turn it over to God let those feelings of anger be stripped away

Enjoy your relationship please don't leave them astray

Remember words you speak can never be taken back

Before you turn the last child think of the damage to retract

I look forward to sharing my story. I look forward to the opportunity to learn about others and together we can make it right. My shortest rhythmical is this

A mind changed against its will

Is of the same opinion still

Mahalo

No special technology needed a stage lights sound and a microphone