{"product_id":"2940152585438","title":"Inner Doors","description":"\u003cp\u003eI am a visual storyteller by trade. I've created imagery in one form or another most of my life as a photographer, graphic designer, and motion graphics designer. I discovered the enjoyment of creating imagery through words quite by accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was in my mid thirties, and while I enjoyed reading, I had never given any thought to writing until one day when I found myself sitting in front of a blank card. My niece Karen Elizabeth had invited me to her high school graduation and I wished to express my hopes for her future as well as my admiration for what she had already accomplished. Somehow, \"congrats\" didn't quite cover it. After a few stumbles and false starts, the poem 'Karen Elizabeth' was written. Luckily for everyone involved, the 'roses are red, violets are blue' version went by the wayside rather early on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo my complete surprise, I then found myself with pen in hand every spare moment over the next few years. What I lacked in talent and skill, I made up for with determination. A few classes and a couple years of making myself get up at poetry slams, and I discovered that I had written what amounted to a resume of my being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs this collection developed, I came to believe that I would someday meet the woman for whom I had imagined this resume was being written. To that end I had lovingly placed each piece into a red leather binder as it was finished. Years later I did meet her, and although fate did not choose a happily ever after for us, the writing remained. Such is life. So in your travels if you happen to meet a woman with a red leather binder of my poems and stories, please say hello for me and give her my love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Reed Paul Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Reed Paul Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175599653104,"sku":"2940152585438","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152585438_p0.jpg?v=1764024151","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152585438","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}