Learning to Slow Dance with Footprints of Kindness
Description
Carol Ann Cole revisits many of her life experiences, successes and experiences that proved to be less than memorable. She has learned from both. 'There is a clarity that comes with being a septuagenarian looking back at your life.'
During the early COVID months and years Carol Ann spent considerable time in her happy place: Nova Scotia and, in particular, the Annapolis Valley. This is where the book took a life of its own.
Carol Ann writes in detail about her first love and how what seemed to be so right turned out to be less than that
'Life can change in a minute', 'Soft skills matter', 'Cancer is a beast', and 'Hating only hurts the hater' are a few of the many life connections you will read about here.
Not afraid to share, Carol Ann has invited several of her fellow septuagenarians to put pen to paper and share one or two lessons they have learned through their life journey to date.
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Content
- Section 1
- Introduction
- Part 1:
- Updates to
- Lessons Learned Upside the Head
- 1: Soft skills
- 2: Focus forward and don't look back
- 3: The art of listening
- 4: Dream and believe
- 5: Give the gift of a compliment
- 6: Do not judge others
- 7: Hating only hurts the hater
- 8: Honesty matters
- 9: Playing for all the marbles
- 10: Calls and chances
- 11: Prioritize your time
- 12: Say you're sorry when you screw up
- 13: The face of depression
- 14: Can you spare a smile?
- 15: Dress codes
- 16: Be nice
- 17: The first cut is the deepest
- 18: Singles or doubles?
- 19: Every story has two sides
- 20: Fool me once...
- 21: Don't hide the badass in your family
- 22: Moments become memories
- 23: Footprints of kindness
- 24: Know when to be 'done'
- 25: The lucky ones grow old
- 26: Keep your COVID mask
- 27: Exercise
- 28: Check your expression
- 29: How will you be remembered?
- 30: Life is not fair
- 31: Maturity wears many different faces
- 32: Leave your own footprints of kindness for others to discover
- 33: What does 'just' mean to you?
- 34: Let others gossip without you
- 35: Don't look down on others
- 36: Siblings are special
- 37: Volunteer
- 38: Acknowledge family dynamics
- 39: I hope you dance
- 40: Learn to like your own company
- 41: Never give up
- 42A: Cancer is a beast
- 42B: Childhood cancer is unforgivable
- 43: Share with the less-fortunate
- 44: The boy
- 45: Be proud of your hometown
- 46: Mentoring is a gift
- 47: Working together works
- Part 2:
- Poetry & song and
- keeping it all in one place
- 48: Cat's in the Cradle
- 49: Slow dance
- 50: The dash
- 51: No title at all
- 52: All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten
- Part 3:
- Family and friends
- 53: From my friend Sherilyn M Fritz
- 54: Donna Sabean
- 55: Lorraine Rosenal
- 56: Ron Bryant
- 57: Peter Booth and his Mum-pride
- 58: Tom DeYoung
- 59: Bill Valcour
- 60: Rob Koldenhof
- 61: In memory of Bill Egan
- 62: Faith Deloughery
- 63: Life can change in a minute
- 64: Kindness, Comfort Hearts, and cancer
- Part 4:
- Mom and me
- 65: The world our grandchildren will inherit
- 66: Daughters and granddaughters
- 67: Mary Rose d'Entremont
- 68: A treasure trove
- 69: Mom's love of reading
- 70: Oh, what a party!
- 71: We didn't know
- 72: Mary's girls surround her
- 73: A final diary entry
- 74: Cole's Corner
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
