Reimaging Rebellion: A Rebel's Guide to Coming Alive in System That's Crushing You

Now out on Kindle and Paperback

It’s out.

A little something I’ve seemingly been working on since I heard Pink Floyd’s Animals for the first time. It was 49 years ago. I was 8 and it lit something in me. I’ve been rebelling ever since. One way almost destroyed me, this way recovered my soul.

Reimagining Rebellion published this week. Kindle and paperback both, 336 pages.

I’ve been carrying this one a long time. It went through more rewrites than I want to count, and about a week before release I pulled it back off Kindle because I knew it wasn’t finished. That was the right call and it was not a fun day. Then a proof copy showed up in a box, and holding it turned out to be a completely different experience than looking at a file.

It’s dedicated to Jerrick, my 11 year old Little Brother through the Big Brother program, First because he deserves it, and second because I don’t want him to forget it.

I wrote it holding the image of him picking it up when he’s older — to help him, and others, see things a little more clearly. To not have to wait until they were fifty-seven. Not to layer another belief on top of the ones already installed by a system that profits from his numbness, but to wake him up and let him examine his own.

There’s no bigger concern to me than what’s being done to our kids. What I want more than anything is for them to say: nope, not me. You don’t get to tell me who I am or what my life is supposed to be about. I’ll choose that myself and build from there.

The young have an advantage — less to undo. It gets harder to see with age, and when you finally do see it, it’s disorienting and frequently gut-wrenching. So it’s easier to look away.

This book, and the work I do, is for anybody who doesn’t want to look away anymore. Not to reinvent themselves. To answer the soul’s call.

It is never, ever, too late.