The author of The People's Modern Era, Bill of Rights, Ten Commandments & Vows Declarations, book is, Bro. Vonnie Darin Darby, Sr., born on Staten Island, NYC, on March 2nd, 1962, by Lillie Pearl Watkins-Darby and Johnnie Lee Darby, Sr. He is the second oldest of two brothers and two sisters siblings. His Mother, two Grandmothers - Dora Gray, Queen Ester Chapman and elder cousin Bettye Jean Tinont - were very religious and embraced and attended the Baptist religion Church of God for their entire life. The author and siblings attended Rev. Temple Church of god on Christ on Staten Island as kids in the 60s on up to 1972. In 72, at the age of ten, his Mother executed an elaborated escape from an very physical violent and emotional domestic marriage, so in 1972 Her and Her four children (the 5th came 2-years later) escaped to Milwaukee, WI., where members of Her side of family resided. Shortly after Vonnie turned eleven, they moved into a project called Lampham Projects, in Milwaukee on 7th and Brown street. School and the Projects atmosphere were a new fear and experience to him. But he managed to keep up his Bs & As threw out his 5th and 6th grades. But in 7th grade and in a High school called Lincoln, he lost interest in his grades and attendance. So at the age of twelve and the beginning of summer of 74 Vonnie (which family and friends called him by his middle name Darin) got to hanging and running with the LP wrong crowd and quickly got introduced to a life of crime, theft of money, which they called "Soft Shoeing" or "Creepin," marijuana smoking came a year or so later, night clubbing and after-hour joints came at age 15, cocaine sniffing by 16, Pimpin by age 18, in and out of the boys and prison institutions from early teens to mid-50s. Crack cocaine selling & smoking, cocaine and heroin sniffing off and on during the mid-80s, 90s & 00s. None of such His Christian Mother approved of! She would always get on him about all of such illegal, ungodly and self-destruction thinking, living and doing. But it was in the mid-90s when She would sit him down, twice at least, when She caught him alone while visiting Her, and told him about a Godly Dream She had. She said, Baby, I had a Dream from God, and "He told me that you was gonna be a Preacher. " I smiled and said: 'me a Preacher' and told Her that I couldn't believe in something I couldn't see, touch or hear. That was disappointing for Her to hear, but Her faith was deep and She said God is real. She would also go on to say, Baby you got to stop going to prison, stop stealing, get a job, stop being so evil, learn to forgive and forget, stop being so stubbing and misusing and abusing women. After Her Departure on 5-12-03, I had a Dream from Her while in a Milwaukee County jail cell the following year. It was a short dream, but significant at that time of my life and thereafter. The significance of that Dream was hearing in Her voice the letter "P." It reminded me of the word Preacher in our 90s conversations, but I knew She was sending me to the Bible, even though it started with a letter "B." So as I awaken I immediately reached for the small brown pocket size Testament Bible and as I cracked it open my eyes seen the Book of Proverbs. Never been there before, but as I started reading chapter one, there She was in verse 8: Thou ... shall not forsake the Law of thy Mother ... . Which took me back to them sit downs and She would tell me to stop ... and stop ..., etc. As I read on, many other verses reminded me of Her Laws and all of such assured me that there was a God and that I shall now acknowledge and believe in Him. But it was the initial letter "P" that convinced me that I could and should be a Preacher, maybe not in the traditional sense, but in a way that would parallel simultaneously with my new founded book & song Writings, Publisher, Advocate for Children & Women, Activism, Humanitarianism, Pan African, Innovator, Public Speaker and Philanthropist Godly...
