Timothy Vonce-Waylon Lane was born to my parents, Luther T. Lane and Vanessa G. Lane on July 26, 1978 in Dallas, Tx. Raised with a southern baptist christian background I always knew that there was more to the story, to my story, to our story. I spent my whole life wandering and wondering about dark places. When I realized that greatness comes out of Africa I was maybe 11 or 12 years old. My father was in sales and my mother was a registered nurse and they always brought me back to that foundation of greatness. They both exceled at their occupation, and by providing for me and my sister they showed us both the value of persistence and hard work. I had humble beginnings as I began in the rough Southern Oak Cliff area as a child. When I was about 9 years old my mother and father moved in together and we made our home in the suburban area of the Dallas sector a then small town called Cedar Hill. I graduated from Cedar Hill High School in 1996 and I attended Navarro College before coming home and attending the local El Centro Community College in Dallas. It was around this time when I was diagnosed with schyzophrenia and my college education was halted. I never went back. However, I took it upon myself to educate myself on my condition as well as the mental and spiritual condition of myself and my people and I found that the majority of us are really in a bad mental and spiritual state. So I decided to write a book describing, well, at least my mental and spiritual state and the very things and issues that formed them. I met and fell in love with who I describe as Queen of Queens my children's mother Mahogany Byrd. She has been my strength in all of this. It takes a strong person to live with someone with mental illness, and she is the strongest. I could not have created this without her. Her and my three children are the reason why I do this. I am truly blessed and fortunate to be in a position where I can help someone whether you are mentally ill yourself or know someone who is mentally ill or even if you are not affected but you just lack a little spiritual direction, truth is always the best fulfiller, there is never anything deeper or anything realer.
