Hi everyone,
I was given back the joy of reading for pleasure a couple of months ago.
Today I just about finished, The Five People You Will Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Ablom. He wrote, Tuesday's With Maury. BTW for Christianphobes, it's not about relilgion. But it is a delightful little book. I think there was a made for TV movie of it too.
Here are a few quotes from it:
Captain: People stop sacrificing for one another, they lose what keeps them human.
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Ruby: Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves...
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Blue Man: There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
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Blue Man: Some people think of Heaven as a Garden of Eden...But what is scenery without solace?
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Blue Man: Fairness does not govern life and death...If it did, no good man would ever die young...
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Marguerite: Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't.
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Blue Man: Strangers are family you have yet to come to know
Also, read Loving Frank. It's a novel takeoff on Frank Lloyd Wright's life with his mistress Ms Cheney. Exceedingly well written and IMO a virtual smorgasbord of N examples (as if we need more, eh?)
Barbara Kingsolvers Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - not worth the time.
Anyway, after having been pulled through the knothole of 'recovery' from co-N, being able to pick up a book that is about something other than survival feels really good.
tt
