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Summary: Signposts Along the Road
Review: It seems that we are all rushing headlong and pell mell down the road to our euphemistically termed "senior years." Author James Michener noted his crossing of the threshold into that time of life with an oddly comfortable sense that he would "never know the answers to many of life's great questions." (Interesting words from a man about to do his most prolific writing!) In "Kind Hearts," my good friend, colleague and former professor, Dr. James Frush, has written his observations on the journey. Jim writes with the objectivity of a scientist and the subjectivity of a sensitive man who has spent many hours listening to his fellow travelers (and teaching their children and grandchildren in the classrooms of colleges and graduate schools). In his introduction, Jim writes, "This book emerged from a long-standing notion on my part that the experience of being an elder is more than can be comprehended by gerontology or, for that matter, by psychology or sociology. The social sciences are important in this endeavor, but they are not enough." So, Dr. Frush relies heavily on the actual words of the elderly peple who were his interviewees, and he does well in keeping to his promise "to avoid academic or professional jargon." There is an incredible secret hidden in the process of aging. Dr. Frush has discovered some of the clues to finding that secret, and he has offered them to us in his book. I recommend "Kind Hearts" if you know anyone that is old, that is growing old, or if you are fortunate enough to do so yourself.
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Summary: Signposts Along the Road
Review: It seems that we are all rushing headlong and pell mell down the road to our euphemistically termed "senior years." Author James Michener noted his crossing of the threshold into that time of life with an oddly comfortable sense that he would "never know the answers to many of life's great questions." (Interesting words from a man about to do his most prolific writing!) In "Kind Hearts," my good friend, colleague and former professor, Dr. James Frush, has written his observations on the journey. Jim writes with the objectivity of a scientist and the subjectivity of a sensitive man who has spent many hours listening to his fellow travelers (and teaching their children and grandchildren in the classrooms of colleges and graduate schools). In his introduction, Jim writes, "This book emerged from a long-standing notion on my part that the experience of being an elder is more than can be comprehended by gerontology or, for that matter, by psychology or sociology. The social sciences are important in this endeavor, but they are not enough." So, Dr. Frush relies heavily on the actual words of the elderly peple who were his interviewees, and he does well in keeping to his promise "to avoid academic or professional jargon." There is an incredible secret hidden in the process of aging. Dr. Frush has discovered some of the clues to finding that secret, and he has offered them to us in his book. I recommend "Kind Hearts" if you know anyone that is old, that is growing old, or if you are fortunate enough to do so yourself.
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