Review: Wonderfully Wise
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2013
This little gem of a book charmed the socks off me as I suspect the author has been wont to do with many others over a long and obviously well-lived life.Malcolm Henderson is by turns philosophic, whimsical, practical and laugh-out-loud funny in this beautifully written treatise ostensibly aimed at older people but one from which anyone can learn.He moves easily from a discussion of his humanism and why it's important for his well-being to a description of how to continue boating when getting in and out of a canoe is a problem to an explanation of why he starts every day with a shot of Kahlua.The entire book is suffused with humor laced with erudition. But Malcolm doesn't bore, ever. He tells us, for example, that "If you haven't yet found your talent, please take into consideration that if you are eighty and have knee problems, it is probably not wise to take up mountaineering or hand gliding."I really loved this wonderfully wise little book. Anyone with the least curiosity about how others have lived and are living their lives will enjoy and benefit from it.Bravo.Granny and the Monster in My Room (Granny, Magic and Me)Fleury Sommers