Strands of Memory: My Swan Song - Softcover

Tracey, William R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1466944633 ISBN 13: 9781466944633

Publisher: Trafford, 2012

Synopsis

Strands of Memory-My Swan Song is a collection of sweet and bittersweet memories that reveals the author's successes and failures, dreams and fantasies, strengths and weaknesses. It tells stories and draws word pictures celebrating life in more than 140 poems. The author shares thoughts and feelings about his experiences over a period of more than eighty-five years. It commemorates people in the author's life and their loves, friendships, courage, and strengths. It tells stories and draws word pictures about love, family, friendship, work, war, nature, life, and death. The collection also sings the songs of his life, his joys and sorrows. It chronicles incidents, events, and the things that have troubled, hurt, and pleased the author and his family and friends. In short, the book describes relationships and events that have made his life more meaningful and rewarding as well as challenging. The events and situations described in both rhyme and blank verse include many to which readers will readily relate because they have shared similar experiences. In short, the poems will touch the reader's heart, mind, and soul.

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About the Author

A ninety-year-old widower and Cape Cod "wash-ashore" Dr. Tracey is an international management and training consultant, a retired naval officer and military school administrator, a combat veteran of World War II (Pacific Theatre), and a former elementary and secondary schoolteacher, principal, college professor, and psychologist. Author of fourteen books on communication, leadership, training and development, and human resources management, a three-volume set of memoirs, and more than one hundred journal articles, he has also written a biweekly column on management and communication for a Cape Cod newspaper and Strands of Memory, Strands of Memory Revisited, and Strands of Memory Reprised, three companion volumes of the current book. Married for fifty-three years to a wonderful wife and mother, now deceased, he is the proud father of six children, twelve grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Bill has been writing poetry for over thirty years and has published more than sixty poems. To him, verse, both free and rhyming, is an invaluable means of releasing pent-up emotions and for painting beautiful, sad, or joyous pictures with words. Writing is viewed as a gift that has helped him to survive, heal, and grow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trafford
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1466944633
• ISBN 13: 9781466944633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186