Actually, I just finished two books that I loved and will forever change the way I view life. I may just be the last person on the planet to read Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. If there's one other person who hasn't read these small but infinitely powerful books, I urge you to get to the library or bookstore today.
Albom seems to be a young man with an inordinate depth of understanding and wisdom beyond his years. I know he absorbed much of what his "coach," Morrie Schwartz, taught him about life and living each day. I doubt he could have written Five People without Morrie's spirit looking over his shoulder.
Both books touched chords in me that moved me to tears the instant I read certain passages ... about parents, children, hopes and dreams, relationships ... and life and death.
I'm so proud of my children and know that they're both good, honest people. They're as different as night and day but both have a rich sense of humor and can find a silver lining in every cloud.
In the midst of this hypnotic story, Albom throws in little nuggets of wisdom. The pearls to be found in Tuesdays with Morrie are simply too many to quote. Every page is filled with simple but perceptive truths about how we treat the people in our lives, how we react to the world around us, and even how we treat ourselves.
You must read these two books. I'll expect a book report a week from Friday.
Albom seems to be a young man with an inordinate depth of understanding and wisdom beyond his years. I know he absorbed much of what his "coach," Morrie Schwartz, taught him about life and living each day. I doubt he could have written Five People without Morrie's spirit looking over his shoulder.
Both books touched chords in me that moved me to tears the instant I read certain passages ... about parents, children, hopes and dreams, relationships ... and life and death.
I'm so proud of my children and know that they're both good, honest people. They're as different as night and day but both have a rich sense of humor and can find a silver lining in every cloud.
"Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them — a mother's approval, a father's nod — are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives."(from The Five People You Meet in Heaven, page 126)
In the midst of this hypnotic story, Albom throws in little nuggets of wisdom. The pearls to be found in Tuesdays with Morrie are simply too many to quote. Every page is filled with simple but perceptive truths about how we treat the people in our lives, how we react to the world around us, and even how we treat ourselves.
You must read these two books. I'll expect a book report a week from Friday.
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