Seth Ian

A book about redemption, letting go, finding your voice and refusing to be held down anymore. This book is about empowerment and the struggle to get there. There are some darker themes of processing through anger and guilt for those feelings but at the end of it all this is about letting life sort itself out and coming out better for it.

The fourth book from Author Seth Ian. This submission of words is rooted in the past and flourishing in the present. There are some entries that have been previously released in this installment but there is plenty of never released entries as well. This, like the others is full of observations in life and death and everything that is in-between. May this book speak to all who pick it up- may it bring a relative feeling to us all.

The idea of our choices having kinetic energy comes from the high rate of suicides where the individual believes that everything ends. Though it does for them, often their emotions are transferred like kinetic energy. This does not apply to just suicide- all choices have some form of consequence or reaction attached to them. This book is good for starting conversations or allowing the reader to expand on the ideas within the pages on their own.

The title of the body of work has troubled me somewhat because these writings span 23+ years of my life, maturity, relationships, how the world affected me, my mental health, my battles, scars, losses, wins... What would fit? I have labored over this for so long. Broken Frames of Mind: Chronicles of a Glass iCool, but what's that? Well, the band I played in I had named Glass i. Which literally meant 'transparent me' because of how open and raw, emotionally my lyrics were. Broken Frames of Mind... That too is a nod to the days of playing music. The very first band I played in while in high school I had named this. A few members changed and our name did too. As one of the primary writers in the band I amassed a lot of writings. With stacks of composition book and spiral ring notebooks laying around I felt it was time to edit the entire body of work and publish it. So much of my life is in these pages. Whether it is a direct experience or me giving voice to those who have not felt they had one; this is 100% what I have experienced. With life having settled down and my perspectives changing with age I felt this was a good stopping point on this kind of writing. I continue to write and will publish more works but this felt right to bookend these experiences like this.