THROUGH THE GATE: Moments of Remembrance, Thought, Consideration

In this journal by Sharon Hanks, you'll find the memories, thoughts, and experiences of a lifetime. A trained observer of the natural world, Sharon puts her training to use looking with delight at her own experiences in retirement. Rather than let life slip by as we so often do, Sharon here records some of the moments which have delighted, enriched, provoked, and at times irritated her. And mostly, they're small moments, the kind we often fail to notice. Sharon has a wonderfully light comic touch and a gift for precise description, and she uses them to communicate a sense of the extraordinary richness that lies in wait for us in the most ordinary events, not only in her own life but in the experiences rhat all of us share. - James Hauser, William Patterson University