
A Life of Dialogue
Love Letters to My Daughters
Kenneth Paul Kramer(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 23. May 2016
242 pages
978-1-4982-8956-6 (ISBN)
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In A Life of Dialogue: Love Letters to My Daughters, one finds an honest, unflinching, and authentic voice that creates a unique outlook on multiple sclerosis. Kramer juxtaposes the quest for spiritual awakening with hiding from the effects of his MS. In so doing, he offers poignant insights into living with an illness that is even now too little understood.
Composed of short autobiographical letters to his two daughters, Kramer gracefully connects the personal with the universal, and the devastating emotions of MS with the unfinished joys of parenting--each bringing glimpses of new light. His spirituality informs seemingly mundane interactions with a refreshing candor. Turning toward others, trusting what is given, and responding openly, led him to becoming uniquely human in each interaction.
This book is written in an uplifting and surprising way. It finds essential humanity through documenting triumphs within a life of ever-narrowing confines.
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English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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978-1-4982-8956-6 (9781498289566)
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Kenneth Paul Kramer is a Professor emeritus of Comparative Religious Studies at San Jose (CA) State University. He has published Learning Through Dialogue: The Relevance of Martin Buber's Classroom (2013), Martin Buber's Spirituality: Hasidic Wisdom for Everyday Life (2012), Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" (2007), Martin Buber's "I and Thou": Practicing Living Dialogue (2003); he also edited Dialogically Speaking: Maurice Friedman's Interdisciplinary Humanism (2011).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Earliest Memory
- The Bright-Eyed Boy
- No!
- Mom and Dad
- Walking with Roy
- Lipton Tea with Rose
- Alpha Baptist Church
- The Childhood Door
- Baptism
- Decision
- Sports, Sports, Sports
- Never Before
- Missed Free Throws
- On First Meeting Eliot and Buber
- Setting Forth
- Andover Newton
- "The Travesty"
- Yale's Unexpected Calling
- First Class: First Day
- Finding Out
- "I'd Like to Get to Know You"
- Temple University Professors
- Phillips' "Let That Dilemma Be Your Way"
- DeMartino's "True Self is Awakening Awakening to Itself "
- Friedman's "All Real Living is Dialogic Encounter"
- Fidelity to the Task
- Baptist to Buddhist
- The Materializing Guru
- Loneliness
- The Forbidden Kiss
- The Gypsy Lady
- Leila Ann
- Santa Cruz
- Yvonne Rose
- SJSU
- "The Castilian Rose"
- "You No Longer Need to Sit"
- Holy Trinity Brothers
- October 11th
- Separation and Divorce
- In Each Other's Hearts
- Halfway Between University and Church
- From Crayons to Perfume
- The Faces of MS
- "I" Exam
- "Jesus, as a Jew, Would Never Have Said That"
- The Divine Comedian
- The Right Question for the Wrong Person
- Teaching on the Narrow Ridge
- The Limits of Dialogue
- "The Search Will Make You Free"
- What's Missing?
- Bowing Deeply
- Dialogic Awakening
- Dad's Death
- Mom's Death
- An Anonymous Student
- Retirements
- Risking Enchantment
- A Large Cup of Java
- Sacramental Existence
- Still Swimming at Sixty-Five
- Twin Lakes Prayers
- Tuesdays with Todd
- Ever-Narrowing Confines
- The Turn Not Taken
- Weddings
- A Day in the Life at Seventy-Three
- Dark Moments
- The Rhythm of Sitting Here
- No More Needs to Be Said
- Trust with a Capital T
- My Brother
- "I Carry Your Heart"
- Cyberknifing
- Growing Up
- The Great Light
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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