Aging My Way
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters.” — Ursula K. Le Guin.
This quote means so much to me that it has a permanent place on my blog page. It was the inspiration for how I traveled after retirement, when I took the backroads and zigzagged across America in a small RV for nine amazing years.
It was a similar, but yet totally different journey, that the protagonist takes in Douglas Westerbeke’s intriguing book A Short Walk Through a Wide World. Classified as historical fantasy, a New York Times reviewer said it rolled The Life of Pi, The Alchemist, and The Midnight Library into one fantastical fable.
I recommended the novel to my book-loving neighbor who enjoyed it as much as I did. We read it last year shortly after it was published. And by the way, I do know how lucky and blessed I am to have a neighbor who loves reading as much as I do.
Westerbeke, a former librarian, credits all the reading he had done as inspiration for his novel. I would think that his neighbors, if they know him, would be fortunate, too.
Meanwhile, a Bean Pat for our local libraries. “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never-failing spring in the desert.” – Andrew Carnegie“
Pat Bean is a retired award-winning journalist who lives in Tucson with her canine companion Scamp. She is an avid reader whose mind is always asking questions (many of which are unanswerable), an enthusiastic birder, staff writer for Story Circle Network’s Journal, author of Travels with Maggie available on Amazon (Free on Kindle Unlimited), and is always searching for life’s silver lining.
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