Strands of Memory Revisited
Sweet and Bittersweet Memories and Meditations
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On Finding Each Other Our bond continues to astound me. Things feel so relaxed and comfortable between us that it’s like we’ve known each other forever. Every time we’re together I discover something new that charms and enchants me anew. And when we’re apart I’m usually thinking about the next time we’ll be together. I can’t help myself for feeling that we connect in some magical way. We have so much pleasure and fulfillment that one could say we were predestined to find each other. Although I can’t be certain that’s true, I do know that I’m incredibly glad That we have each other now and that we can begin anew.
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Strands of Memory Revisited — 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 200 poems. The author shares thoughts and feelings about his experiences over a period of more than 80 years. It commemorates people in his life, especially family and friends, and their loves, friendships, courage, challenges, and strengths. It talks about love, family, friendship, 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 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.
About the Author
An 86-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 school teacher and principal, a college professor, and a psychologist. Author of 14 books on communication, leadership, training and development, human resource management, a 3-volume set of memoirs, a book of poetry, and more than 100 journal articles, he has also written a biweekly column on management and communication for a Cape Cod newspaper and Strands of Memory, the earlier companion volume 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 two great grandchildren. Bill has been writing poetry for over 30 years and has publshed more than 40 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,