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In a Nutshell by Trevor Field. Events such as being taken from my mother at the age of six, seeing a murder of a housemate at eleven, placed in a boys home then back with my foster parents caused me to be a poor, shy and distant student. Yet it was because of these things I became interested in people, God and the nature of things, especially in the human components that made us do what we do. With the opportunity of nothing more than a standard education I left school when I was fifteen to do what most in those days did and followed my heart, a heart that said the only way to save yourself was to move forward, keep moving forward. Experimentation with life and drugs during the Hippy era, saw me try a number of careers including Sales, Nurses Aide, Minister training at a Theological College, Assistant Manager of major fast food restaurant, Fire Extinguisher servicemen and others to finally settle on spending ten years in MIT. It was a good and rewarding career until the responsibility and workload of a Network Administrator overloaded my sense of self and I broke. Depression is debilitating in all sorts of ways but if I was going to have any kind of trouble free future I had to find a way to beat it and reinvent myself somehow. Consciously and subconsciously I unsuccessfully searched answers by trying a few things until I realized I had quite a bit of life experience so why not have a go at writing. Unclear of my genre I started number of projects then I looked at my kids that weren’t kids anymore, they’re always your kids, right? I wondered if I managed to teach them all I knew, understood and believed, at least enough for them to have a better journey through life but I knew I hadn’t. When they were young they were too young to understand and I was too busy chasing a life and a career, and when they’d reached their teens I was in depression and unable to function let alone give instruction. Formulating and writing down my opinions on, and my understanding of, the human condition produced sixty pages. It was a lot to read for a point of view so in demonstration of all the things I believe and understand I decided to write a short story about a man and his stones. To my surprise the intended short story seemed to take on a life of its own and didn’t want to end. As I’d write one piece the next popped into my head then there was more and then more and then more so I kept on writing until the story found its own end. ‘In a Nutshell’ is a book of instruction, advice and opinions on how the human belief system in its entirety fits together. It not only covers such subjects on how to be a good manager, teacher or parent and what we can do about understanding ourselves as an individual but it also demonstrates our understanding of Karma, Reincarnation, the Will of God’s and others. All this is done through a story about the birth of a new soul born out of place and out of time and all the experiences and lessons it has to go through before it can restore the imbalance that started when he found the Nutshell.
