Strands of Memory - Epilogue: Sweet and Bittersweet Memories and Meditations - Softcover

Tracey, William R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1490744991 ISBN 13: 9781490744995

Publisher: Trafford, 2014

Synopsis

Strands of Memory - Epilogue 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 two hundred poems. The author shares thoughts and feelings about his experiences over a period of more than ninety years. It commemorates people in his life, especially family and friends, and their loves, friendships, courage, challenges, and strengths. It talks about love, family, friendships, work, war, nature, life, and death. This collection also sings the songs of his life and describes his joys and sorrows. It chronicles incidents, events, and the things that have troubled, hurt, and pleased the author, his family, and his friends. His hope is that the events, poetry, love, family, friendship, and situations described in both rhyme and free verse include many to which readers will readily relate because they have shared similar experiences - in short, that the poems will touch readers' hearts, minds, and souls.

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About the Author

A ninety-two-year-old widower and Cape Cod "wash-ashore" Dr. Tracey is also a retired international management and training consultant, naval officer, and military school administrator; a combat veteran of World War II (Pacific Theatre); a former elementary and secondary school teacher; and a principal, college professor, and psychologist. He is the author of fourteen books on communication, leadership, training and development, and human resource management; a three-volume set of memoirs; four books of poetry; and more than a 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, Strands of Memory: Reprised, and Strands of Memory: My Swan Song, companion volumes of the current book. Married for 53 years to a wonderful wife and mother, now deceased, he is the proud father of six children, 12 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Bill has been writing poetry for over 35 years and has published more than 40 individual poems. To him, verse, both blank 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 survive, heal, and grow,

Edition details

• Publisher: Trafford
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1490744991
• ISBN 13: 9781490744995
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222