Singing All The Verses: Essays From A Mid-American

A gifted storyteller turns to telling her own stories. You’ll be inspired to do the same. A book that illustrates how any moment in a life can be resonant, magical, and joyful. Peg Guilfoyle has been writing short pieces, books, and commentaries for forty years, and collects the old and the entirely contemporary here, in all their variety, pleasure. and humor. How an old opera score carries one through quarantine. I warble in English. My Italian is limited, if enthusiastic, learned mostly from the subtitles of Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. I can exclaim 'courage', 'death', and 'vengeance', which does not make me a good conversationalist. How a stack of old letters opens the door on a country long-vanished. We were four boys in Texas and we had the usual array of horses, ponies, cattle dogs, cats, guinea pigs, prairie dogs, chickens, and most anything that was pettable... How your children grow, and you grow with them. ’Mom, that will make a great Sex Dress for you!’, he called. It created quite a stir. How the past inevitably connects with the present. ...a parent searched the Wall for the name of a young man from her hometown. Her mother and the lost soldier's mother had just had lunch together. The beauties of an aging softball team. The slogans were always printed in Klingon, a language mostly in triangles. One year the shirts said 'Weapons of Past Destruction'. The things, the many things, you believe in. ...the music of Bach, and the architecture of cathedrals, the immense beauty and order of the natural world, and the tremendous surging power of singing together - it does not seem to me that those things can mean nothing, and it does not seem likely that they are accidental. How every day carries humor and wonder. Guided by faith, humor, and endless curiosity, Guilfoyle crafts a life that is, of course, uniquely her own. But as this spiritual memoir shows, she has based her life choices on things that matter most to people everywhere. (K. Weflen) Writer Willa Cather said in 1915: What was any art but a mould to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose? This book captures that shining elusive element, and will inspire you to do the same. It is not a how-to. It is a set of stories from a thinking, observant American woman. Like you.
ASIN: 0982446799
VSKU: BVV.0982446799.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Guilfoyle, Peg
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use