In his offbeat and often off-the-wall adventures, Jad-bal-ja encourages you to live your life with all the intensity you are capable of. Whether you are 19 and trying to launch yourself into our crazy world, 40 and bored with your situation, or 60 and wondering whatever happened to Holden Caulfield, Jad-bal-ja’s tales will speak to you. Offering a zesty respite from the usual and mundane, Jad-balJad-bal-ja takes readers on a lifetime trek from the Australian Outback, to a hippie commune in redneck territory, then on to Granada, Africa, and finally the wildes of Crownsville, Maryland, where he and his wife become the smallest nursery vender selling to the biggest Big Box, Home Depot. Along the way he encounters a host of vibrant and sometimes wacky characters and learns what being fully alive is all about.