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In this volume-the third in a series-the new residents of the
Saratoga Retirement Community in Saratoga, California have recorded
memorable aspects of their individual and widely differing lives.
Here the reader will encounter: Single-parent adoption in middle
age, an amateur acting career, a small town Kansas beginning,
family summers while growing up, the problems of a British
immigrant and a family from Italy, a Turkish dam specialist and his
wife and sons, training for a career in nursing in Canada, the
Hayes family in San Francisco, physical therapy abroad, recording
the weather for the Air Force, traveling by RV and by individual
canoe, a Mayo Clinic wife, prospecting for retirement homes (and
publishing the information collected), coping with illness and
childhood disaster, friends of Edward R. Murrow, the distance from
the Bronx to SRC, and a wanderer's hitchhike around the globe.Two
poems add an intimate touch of family life.
Originally from 11 countries and many different states, the 26
contributors to this book have written articles about their pasts
which span the wide range of human emotion. Some deal with tragedy
and pain, others with the fantasy of remembrance, unusual amusing
incidents from childhood, or later professional life around the
globe.
Although they are now all living in the Saratoga Retirement
Community, the writers come from the professional worlds of
physics, meteorology, business and home management, chemistry,
psychology, DMV instruction, weaving, paleontology, world travel,
art therapy, and medicine. Incidents from each life are presented
in idiosyncratic style.
This challenging, probing work about a woman's recovery from
tubercular meningitis is both an intellectual and intensely
personal exploration of the unconscious, the mental state of
nothingness, identity, existentialism, medicine, religion, and most
especially, love.
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