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    Dillon's Rocking Bear Invisibility Chair
    Dillon's Rocking Bear Invisibility Chair
    Dillon's Rocking Bear Invisibility Chair
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    Dillon's Rocking Bear Invisibility Chair

    By R.J.R. Rockwood

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    This is a novella about spirituality and death through the eyes of a child. From the age of three Dillon finds that by sitting in his bear chair he can float out of his body. When out of body, Dillon is invisible, and can pass through solid objects and communicate with spirits. When he was eight, Dillon got a motorized tractor with an attached wagon. When his best friend, Daren, drives Dillons tractor into the road and is struck and killed by a truck, Dillon is able to communicate with Darens spirit, so he eventually overcomes his grief, but desperately misses the physical presence of his beloved friend.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9781493127733
    Dillon's Rocking Bear Invisibility Chair
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    R.J.R. Rockwood

    Dr. Robert John Remington Rockwood has a B.A. in English and German and an M.A. In English and Russian from the University of Miami; a Ph.D. in English and Linguistics from the University of Florida; and he has done advanced study in historical linguistics at the University of North Carolina. For the year 1973-1974 he was a Fellow of the Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University. Dr. Rockwood has served on the full-time faculty at Florida Southern College, Florida Keys Community College, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Florida. From 1978 through 2001 he worked as an industrial technical writer, editor, and web designer at such companies as Lockheed Martin, Unisys, NCR, and Talus. Starting in 2002 he taught online courses for the University of Phoenix. The Body Dies but the Spirit Lives, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded (2020) is his twelfth book published by Xlibris. The others are: • Leopardo da Gotcha (2002) • The Passing of Merlin Zauber (2005) • The Last Ant (2007) • Dillon's Rocking Bear Invisibility Chair (2013) • I Don't Talk to Earthlings (2016) • Owen Often Beside Himself (2016) • The Primrose Path (2016) • The Spirit of Alchemy (2017) • The Eternal Life Ministry of Teenage Michael Maier (2018) • The Rhetoric of Inner Space: Student Writing Based on Dreams (2019) • The Body Dies but the Spirit Lives On (2019) Dr. Rockwood lives in Roswell, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta. His e-mail address is rockwood@mindspring.com.

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      Dillon's Rocking Bear Invisibility Chair - R.J.R. Rockwood

      DILLON’S

      ROCKING BEAR

      INVISIBILITY

      CHAIR

      Spirituality and death

      through the eyes of a child

      by

      R. J. R. Rockwood

      Copyright © 2013 by R. J. R. Rockwood.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      The cover art is acrylic on canvas, with a textured undercoating. The front cover painting depicts Dillon sitting in his bear chair with his stuffed toy, Bud dog. The back cover painting depicts Dillon floating out of himself while his physical body sits in the bear chair in a daze.

      Rev. date: 12/19/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris LLC

      1-888-795-4274

      www.Xlibris.com

      Orders@Xlibris.com

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      Contents

      Dedication

      Chapter 1: Dillon’s Rocking Bear Chair

      Chapter 2: Invisible Dillon Visits Babies and Ladies

      Chapter 3: Dillon’s Invisible Friends

      Chapter 4: Invisible Dillon Visits Daren

      Chapter 5: Invisible Dillon Visits Grandma Mary Ann

      Chapter 6: Invisible Dillon Visits the Spirits

      Chapter 7: Dillon Watches Grandfather Paint

      Chapter 8: Dillon Outgrows the Bear Chair

      Chapter 9: Dillon’s Electric Riding Tractor

      Chapter 10: Dillon Reads Harry Potter to Daren

      Chapter 11: Daren Takes Dillon to Church

      Chapter 12: Daren’s Fatal Mistake

      Chapter 13: Dillon Finds Daren in the Ghost Zone

      Chapter 14: Dillon Reflects on Life and Death

      Author Bio

      Dedication

      This book is lovingly dedicated to my grandson, Dillon Heimerl, whose actual portrait appears in the cover art. The inspiration for this novella is Dillon and his out-of-body experiences that started when he was three years old. It is appropriate that the protagonist is modeled on him.

      Chapter 1

      Dillon’s Rocking Bear Chair

      D illon loved to sit in his rocking chair in the shape of a bear. This chair had been one of Dillon’s favorite possessions since he was one year old. On weekdays, Dillon spent his days at Babies and Ladies, which is what he called his pre-school. But as soon as he got home, he would head for the living room of his grandparents’ house and slide into his bear chair holding his beloved stuffed animal, Bud Dog. There he would eat his after-school snack, which was waiting for him on a low, folding table in front of the bear chair. The living room TV would be turned to his favorite cartoon show.

      It wasn’t until Dillon was three years old that Dillon’s grandfather, who was a portrait painter, noticed that Dillon would stop rocking and sit motionless like a statue in the bear chair, seemingly in a daze as he clutched his stuffed toy, Bud Dog. When this happened, one could touch him or talk to him, but he wouldn’t respond. It was as though he had fallen asleep with his eyes open.

      One day Grandfather decided to find out what was really happening. For ten minutes he watched Dillon sitting in his bear chair totally motionless. Sitting on the couch, he kept his eyes on Dillon, saying nothing. Then, noticing that Dillon had started to move and look around, Grandfather said, Dillon, did you go somewhere?

      Dillon said, Yes, I flew.

      Grandfather asked, Were you flying in the sky?

      Yes, flying with the birds.

      Was it a dream?

      No, I was really flying.

      What did you see when you were flying?

      "I could look down and see the roof of this house. And down

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