stopped, turned to me and said, are we still college eyes to you for what we did to your mother in chien and i apologize to you. amy laughed when she said anger disappeared from my life from my very body when my new friend spoke to me. when she acknowledged my childhood grieve and offered hope in the form of an apology. thank you. [applause] >> our next reader is grace angel. she is painter, poet and photographer. married and has 2 girls she is an event planner and art's fundraiser. her works have been exhibited in the bay area and international. she's working on poems entitled, from a fanatic heart. grace. written at a time when i'd say was my hungry period. the first is bones. my bones are bleached white under your stare while you warm your hands under my open wounds i swallow the air you exheal and pluck the bones from your rib cage and i will make a man out of you. my bones memorized the weight of your since. they are brittle with forgiveness. my thighs unfold as you press the palm of your hand against my curving spine and plant your bones inside my garden. this one is draft it's the

book where a few hours earlier i was on air force one, and now at the end of his presidency he's chiening up his -- cleaning up his dog's business from the neighbor's lawn. there's a lot of humor in it. up with of the readers said there's even sort of potty humor in it. -- i think he's kind of at ease in a sense that he's not running for anything else down the road. he's kind of done with politics. he just wants to say this is what i thought, this is what happened to me, and i think that majors it -- makes it a very readable memoir. >> host: dr. brown. >> guest: i would agree it's a very readable memoir. i'm not sure how enlightening it is. i think really from my perspective i very much enjoyed reading it. i came away thinking much of what i've always thought which is george w. bush is a likable person. he is somebody i would enjoy having a conversation with. but i didn't get a sense that it was terribly reflective, and i guess maybe i'm comparing it to the many different books of richard nixon,ing things where there are really insightful moments into nixon's both psychology and ashe acce