Patrick Armstrong Ahern

My name is Patrick Ahern and I was inspired to write a children's illustrated book, by my late father who was a kind and gentle person who during his life was known for showing his kindness to those around him. He instilled in me a dedication to liberating the world of young people from toxic beliefs in the world. In that way we choose to live our lives in a way that promotes the idea that there is always another way to solve our problems than resorting to violence.

How To Be an Octopus is a story about a young man living in a confusing world and about to make the wrong decision, it takes his friends and an octopus who act as his guardian angles to guide him back to the right path and make the right decision in the end. Moreover, its not enough to simply catch the octopus, he must learn to be the octopus, because sometimes in life its not enough to get the answer, as it is to be the answer.