This book of short stories tells of the lives and loves and desires and needs of ordinary people who have dreamed life and experienced the excitements, pains, love and loneliness of living. It tells of people alone and without love, of people surrounded by many and without love, of eternal love, of passing-by people who touch others with feathered gentleness or with rough sandpaper.
From a far off island, an isolated farm, a cold Broadway theater, a library, a classroom and a retirement house you hear the stories of men and women living and needing to live more.
From a doctor's...

The imagination of Grandpop Tim E. sets the stage for adventure and magic in the garden and forest behind his house. He told each of his grandchildren that the garden and the forest, if they remained very quiet and still, will come to life with activities. After he goes "away and never will come back" his grandchildren take the walk into the garden and forest and find talking flowers and rocks, living water bucket and rope all around the singing well. In the forest they find adventure in far away places that help them understand things in life like reading, studying and listening. The...