WHERE NORTH MEETS SOUTH AND EAST MEETS WEST
TIMOTHY LOUIS
BAKER
Memories are powerful and creating a memoir that allows
readers to relive these moments with you quite compelling. Allowing readers to
understand his early years, the pride he took in helping his father on his farm
and knowing that he made a difference envelopes readers from the start as we
visit his farm, help him plant the sweet corn and the soybeans, learn about his
ability to drive a tractor and find his way to making a difference. Throughout
the memoir you hear the voice of the author explain his actions, relate his
missteps and hopefully help others. Getting his driver’s license, totally his
car and even using drugs, led Timothy down many paths and not everyone in the
right direction. Hoping to help others, not making excuses for his inactions or
actions, author Timothy Louis Baker hits the reader hard with the facts that
will make you wonder just how he managed to survive.
Explaining to readers life on a farm, how it operates each
year was quite interesting. Finding his way to help his parents and yet having
fun with his friends proved that within his heart and spirit he was a good and
kind person and although he states that he missed much of the last two years of
his high school classes, some things that he learned in order to survive and
help on the farm come from hands on experience and cannot always be learned in
the classroom, although school is important and an education invaluable.
Using hard drugs, smoking marijuana and really enjoying the
high and the scent, finding that he needed harder drugs such as cocaine, LSD
and crystal meth, makes you wonder how his body was able to tolerate so much
without crying for help. Hitchhiking through many states, meeting some
interesting people and placing himself in tenuous situations that most would
find difficult to deal with and others might even cower, Timothy seemed able to
weather many storms. Getting in trouble with the law for stealing, robbing,
drive by shooting and using drugs did not seem to deter him from continuing his
spree of dangerous actions that might lead to more serious charges. Stealing
gas, his father’s motorcycle, placing himself in dangerous situations while
driving, something kept his going in this direction. It was almost as if he was
trying to see how far he could go before someone finally stopped him or took an
interest in him and curbed his appetite for drugs and joints.
Working in a circus, describing his jobs, breaking into
buildings and a candy shack to get the things needed to smoke pot, led him with
a buddy back to court, more warrants for his arrest and even a longer list for
his friend. You might say his life always on the run and he seemed to be acting
like a daredevil hoping to not get caught or maybe he hoped someone would
finally stop him.
Every step of the way it seemed that Timothy was trying to
find his place in this world, understand and analyze the events both positive
and negative that were happening to him and at several times thought that the
police and others were out to hurt him. Not sure of the outcomes at times and
certain situations that you will read about led the author to feel that he had
either some psychic connection that helped him to forestall events that were
about to unfold and prevent them from happening or a keen sixth sense that kept
him alive. At times he sounds, as this memoir is related in narrative form in
the author’s own voice, that he was bent on a life filled with mystery, the
unknown and hope yet at others it almost felt like he was headed for
destruction. What kept him centered and focused most of the time was his
loyalty to his parents, the knowledge that his father needed him on the farm to
do seasonal work and his spirit of adventure and curiosity to explore the woods
and other places to find out what more there is in the world and what he can
learn from it. Living off the land and fending for himself gave him a strong
sense of independence and freed him of the chains of confinement most have.
Living by his own rules and mores at times would benefit him and at others get
him in trouble with local authorities or other law enforcement figures. But,
the strength within him and his drive to succeed on his own comes through in
every word and page within this memoir that takes readers in all four compass
directions: North, South, East and West.
The author relates his feelings about Heaven and his
experiences related to heaven where there would be no floods, earthquakes or
natural disasters. He even includes his paranormal experiences and feels at
times that he is caught in between two time periods or as he relates a time
warp. Added in her feels that there is a black warlock that has been
intertwined within his thoughts, changing events and even hoping to give his
own perspective on Timothy’s life. Stressing how he broke the law, went to jail
many times yet did not really learn his lesson strikes an important chord for
young teens to know that jail is not a fun experience, drinking and driving is
dangerous plus using hard core drugs can definitely impair your mind. Homeless
centers, jail cells, hitchhiking, living off the land, on the street and
struggling to survive Timothy Louis Baker presents a harsh look at the
realities of life when someone plays daredevil with the outcome. Within Chapter
8 you will learn more about the warlock and his demise. Marriage, a child and
finally asked to work with law enforcement to take drug dealers down this is
one interesting memoir told by the author in his own words giving the world the
cold hard truth about his life.
The final chapters summarize his dealings with other law
enforcement agencies, being in a mental hospital, his paranormal experiences,
time warp experiences and much more that explains his views and experiences as
he sees them. His father witnessed some of his paranormal experiences that you
need to read about for yourself and form your own opinion. One thing is for
sure is that Timothy carved out his life in his own way and created the
incidents that happened to him by himself and he takes ownership of his
choices. Read this straightforward memoir of this man’s life and take the trip
from North to South, East and West and join him as he lives his life his way.
Fran Lewis
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