Khepri Rising

 Subscribe to feed  

Visit author's website

Khepri Rising has been a heavy equipment operator, site man, carpenter, and foreman for a site excavation and contracting home building construction firm for over a decade. He also attended several universities and earned his B.A. in Philosophy/Religion, and Psychology from the University of Charleston in West Virginia. A short chronology of major events in the authors life might include being stabbed and near fatally killed during an attempted ransom back to his father where he suffered three 7 inch deep wounds penetrating his lungs and coming within an inch of his heart when he was 18, a best friends suicide when he was 16, his child being born when he was 26, and his house nearly burning down when he was 29. After his house caught on fire, he had to concentrate more on philosophy and less on building houses because the ligaments in his right hand were severed as a result of the fire. In August of 2008 he published his first book of poems “Beadle Scat” and one month later his epic-novella “Meaning and Relatedness” was published, an experimental work focusing on themes and events which played out in the authors life up until the time he was 25, and  which had taken 13 years to write. On weekends he takes care of his son Kevin.  Among his favorite things in the world include: his voluminous library which is composed of over 1500 books, his coffee (cream only no sugar), and the ability to think about this life that we live.