TO DANCE WITH WISDOM
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PUBLISHED ON CHRISTMAS DAY, DEC. 25TH, 2024.
One of the most painful experiences of my life was losing my father, John Wisdom Dancer, on September 25th, 2005, three months after the most beautiful moment of my life, my son Ray being born, six months after my grandmother, my father's mother dying in front of me on April 1st. John died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm at the age of 64, right when he was just getting back into writing again.
He completed a brilliant three act play, Waiting for Amanda, a week before he died, and it was to be the first work in a long and involved project of stories called The Planet of Iffin. Prior to Amanda, from 2003 to his death, he was passionately writing equally brilliant work, letters to the editor for pretty much every newspaper across the nation. My dad was extremely disturbed with where the Bush administration was taking our country and the world and wanted to do whatever he could to make a difference in influencing Americans.
Many of his pieces were published in these newspapers, by editors and publications that may have not agreed with my father's progressive humanity, but nonetheless respected his gift for writing. My father was an amazing writer. In addition to publishing Waiting for Amanda, I wanted to publish those letters to the editor pieces but they were no where to be found.
Then after a 20 year disappearance, I found them, or at least most of them, just last month in November, and I knew I had to put them together, edit them (minor grammar and spelling), collecting them together in this one book, To Dance with Wisdom.
This collection is not only an excellent time capsule to the time period, it also is extremely relevant for our own times. My father's deep humanity is timeless, as are all great artists and thinkers work.
CLICK HERE
FOR THE KINDLE AND PAPERBACK VERSIONS
PUBLISHED ON CHRISTMAS DAY, DEC. 25TH, 2024.
One of the most painful experiences of my life was losing my father, John Wisdom Dancer, on September 25th, 2005, three months after the most beautiful moment of my life, my son Ray being born, six months after my grandmother, my father's mother dying in front of me on April 1st. John died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm at the age of 64, right when he was just getting back into writing again.
He completed a brilliant three act play, Waiting for Amanda, a week before he died, and it was to be the first work in a long and involved project of stories called The Planet of Iffin. Prior to Amanda, from 2003 to his death, he was passionately writing equally brilliant work, letters to the editor for pretty much every newspaper across the nation. My dad was extremely disturbed with where the Bush administration was taking our country and the world and wanted to do whatever he could to make a difference in influencing Americans.
Many of his pieces were published in these newspapers, by editors and publications that may have not agreed with my father's progressive humanity, but nonetheless respected his gift for writing. My father was an amazing writer. In addition to publishing Waiting for Amanda, I wanted to publish those letters to the editor pieces but they were no where to be found.
Then after a 20 year disappearance, I found them, or at least most of them, just last month in November, and I knew I had to put them together, edit them (minor grammar and spelling), collecting them together in this one book, To Dance with Wisdom.
This collection is not only an excellent time capsule to the time period, it also is extremely relevant for our own times. My father's deep humanity is timeless, as are all great artists and thinkers work.
