Rural Wisdom: The times when life has really spun our wheels - Couverture souple

Ernster, Larry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 142595586X ISBN 13 : 9781425955861

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

In this delightful memoir of short stories and essays, the author uses the rural wisdom he gained in his youth to explain time, forgiveness, and the crush of change; and applies it the challenge of life in the big city. Here, there is history on a clothesline, wisdom in a thunderstorm, and appreciation in a car ride. His humor includes a wild turkey that lived in a doghouse with an old German Shepherd, escaped wild pigs, and the etiquette of trapping city mice. Follow the author as he explores the reverence of the beekeeper, the absolute quiet of the farm between dark and dawn, and compares today's body-piercings to the nose jewelry used on the farm. The theme of the book reveals that each one of us wants to be loved, appreciated, and to contribute to life. But along the way we ignore our opportunities, and yet, life continually gives us second chances despite our inattentiveness. Read and enjoy the author's appreciation of the richness of ourselves.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Another holiday is over and as I leave the farm of my youth and return to my home in the city, I am pumped full of turkey, dressing, pies and all the goodness of family--good family. When I was growing up, I resented the ordinariness of my family. It was stable, secure, and comfortable. Since there were ten of us it was never lonely or uneventful. It was us. Then when I became a teenager, family was an embarrassment. Mom and Dad were country folk. True, they were thoughtful, kind, dependable, respected, loving and giving; but they were as boring as Mom's blue-ribbon, homemade bread. It was there every day, and I was bored with it. Give me some store-bought white bread without all that graininess, and you'd think I had been given candy. Finally, at the age of seventeen, it was time for me to leave the family and the farm. I liked being on my own--going places, doing things, being an adult. However, I was never able to recreate the feeling of family; that feeling of home, of belonging. Sure, strangers treated me better than family, although they never treated me with love. Sure, strangers never interfered, although I'm not sure they cared. Sure, strangers took me for face value and gave me a fresh start, although they never asked who I was or what was my story. So I banged around for years. I didn't write home. I didn't call. I was searching for something that was missing. I completed the military, graduated from college, and started a family before I discovered that what I was looking for was what I had left behind--family. What I noticed in those searching years was that my family, Mom and Dad and all those siblings, weren't common and ordinary. They were rare, unique and extraordinary. I was raised in one of those impossible idyllic times, surrounded by idyllic (and sometimes impossible) people. It was country living at its best, because it was country living in family and in love. This is a collection of stories and essays of how things s

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 142595586X
• ISBN 13: 9781425955861
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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