The shoe business
A career in the industry before a new chapter in poetry and storytelling.
ABOUT ME / H. T. MANOGUE
A life with
unexpected
turns.
Before the poems and parallel worlds, there were shoes. Lots of shoes.
H.T. Manogue’s writing grew out of a change in the way he understood success, loss and the inner life.
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THE STORY BEHIND THE STORIES
From selling shoes
to seeing differently.
In his autobiographical account, H.T. describes an ambitious career in the shoe business and a difficult reassessment of the values he had pursued. Success and recognition eventually gave way to questions about his inner self.
His mother’s death in 1996 marked an important change. Reading philosophy and psychology brought him to Rumi, then to writers and thinkers including Lao Tzu, Rilke, Blake, Emerson and Shinkichi Takahashi.
He later encountered Abraham, the Seth material, and the teachings associated with Elias and Zurac. The deaths of his younger brother Bob and father Howard in 2013 deepened his reflections.
His books explore the idea that thought, emotion and perception shape experience. He presents that as an ongoing personal inquiry, rather than a finished spiritual destination.
More voices in H.T.’s reading world
His original account also names Confucius, Buddha, Ernest Holmes, James Allen, Jesus and Muhammad, alongside Jane Roberts and the Seth material.
A FEW MARKERS ALONG THE WAY
An inward turn
Loss, reading and poetry bring a different set of questions into focus.
Short Sleeves
A Book for Friends and Spirit Songs become part of a growing poetry catalogue.
Still curious
Books, essays, art and Ace continue the exploration of aware, connected energy.