Hello my name is Jacky Doroniyam

I asked:

I would like to know if you wish me to write a book of poetry.

Please let me know, I need to know what to do.

How to understand? How to explain?

For time will give birth to itself.

Know that tomorrow will come,

And what you do is a result of what you did

You know that you are not different from anyone else.

We all came into the world alike,

With the need to grow.

Which direction and how high you wish to go ...

That depends on you.

How to get it?

The answer came:

Come and get it.

Do it, indulge in it,

And I’ll be beside you!

About the Author

Mmmm… What should I reveal about myself? I have lived in New York longer than I lived in Israel. I love the fact that I had a choice where I would live. It wasn’t a choice where it would be easier. What was important to me is to learn to deal with what I have and always to reach to do better. I was never satisfied with settling. I am not a greedy person, but ambitious. I always believed that you should learn to deal with what is your basic self, appreciate yourself and work toward reaching to higher goals.

“Have a bigger dream for yourself,” that’s what Oprah Winfrey always says, I watch her and I always feel that I get “golden nuggets” of wisdom from her.

As a child I had a sad existence my parents got divorced when I was very young and I never lived with either one. Can you picture that sadness? And yet if you asked me if I would change anything, I would say that who I am today is because of my experiences and that includes the pain and compassion, understanding and kindness lessons that I have learned.

I have a secret that I would like to reveal that haunted me most of my life I was left back in my third grade level. I heard the school principle telling my grandmother that I didn’t know how to read, and that was never addressed to help me.

I would like you to know that reading was a very slow process. Today I understand that my difficultly in reading was not because I was stupid, but because of difficulties I lived as a child. I can always blame and point a finger, and I can get down and be depressed, but I don’t, and that is a decision I choose to make every day. Like the choice of being conscious and understanding why I live where I live or any other choice.

I know who I want to become, and that is a better me. I know who I am. I am the willow tree that never breaks because I am as flexible as the branches of a willow tree.

I am the flower between the cracks in the sidewalk… The miracle that no one owns.. Both exist in spite of the circumstances. I am the bull that people come to see.. The glory moment, because I am the miracle.

I have a small restaurant that is called Azuri Café, and you can see it at www.azuricafe.com. If you go there, you can also see my history and my menu.

What I would like you to know is that the name “Doroniyam” was created through a brainstorming experience. It means “A light I shine upon Doroniyam generation to open doors and receives God’s gift in abundance as to the ocean.” What I would like to do is to claim it and make it a place of giving, so I will donate 10% from the profit of the sales of this book and participate in Oprah’s Angel Network in the hopes that this dream will become a part of my reality.

This book is a surprise to me as well. Each time I would write I would be surprised that I wrote what was written. I would be in silence and I would hear those words like strings of pearls put together. Then the process stops. All this was an out of body experience. I can’t remember my poems by heart, but when I want to or need to write I just hear my heart.