What's Worth Knowing
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1585423726 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The woman who people-watches in the lobby" was really Lila Lane, who eloped to Tijuana with her sweetheart at age sixteen, and who at age seventy-five bemoaned the fact that she could no longer wear high heels.Lustbader gathered these stories and more into What's Worth Knowing, a compilation of unforgettable first-person testimonials on love, truth, grief, faith, and fulfillment by people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. And Arsene St. Giuseppe Maestriami passes on child-rearing lessons he discovered through growing prize-winning tomatoes. Amand talks about the importance of making time for love-which he found for the first time only six months before his death.In What's Worth Knowing, readers can spend time with Ole, Lila, Israel, Giuseppe, and Arsene-and a hundred others, whose wisdom matters all the more because of the way they've acquired it.. Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties.When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410" was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. Israel Grosskoff, for example, describes learning about trust whi
Plants like to grow when you spend time with them. They show you how you don't want to be." Author Wendy Lustbader, an authority on aging and a mental health counselor, interviewed her subjects over several years, and what emerged was this record of refreshing candor. As Lustbader writes in her introduction, "I think you will see, as I have, that there is nothing sweeter than being able to live the middle of one's life with the perspective of the end." --Marianne Painter. You'd be nowhere without the fools. There are always people who don't know how to make things grow, and they probably need your tomatoes more than anybody else." --Giuseppe Maestriami, age 85. Read this collection slowly, savoring it a story at a time. Don't keep the whole crop for yourself. Though some may
"The Truth Is All Around Us" according to William H. Thomas MD. Wendy Lustbader has created a remarkable book. These collected reflections and stories reveal the profound wisdom of our elders. As I read the book I was struck by the simple truth of so many of its lessons. We can learn much from the people Wendy introd. If you don't like it now, you will once you are older A Customer I think those who gave this book a poor review did not give it a deep enough reading to see depth in this book. What's worth knowing addresses mundane topics, but that is the point. Some people go through life looking for what isn't there, missing out on. Judith L Dugas said A thoughtful, pleasant read. I too enjoyed this book immensely. If you are looking for the answer to life or a big philosophical revelation-you probably won't find it here though. The tales are short, simple and very reflective of the life of regular folks and the things they have f