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A review by jjp723
Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables by Joan Dye Gussow
5.0
I would give this one 10 stars if I could! A very inspiring, funny and thought-provoking book. It makes the point, thru gardening, that even tho you have to face some unpleasant truths life is still worth living, that hard work and happiness really do pay off. She also shares my opinion on the state of medicine in the USA today, which is just an added plus. Ms. Gussow is my new hero :)
Very highly recommended.
*As I came ultimately to understand, my conviction that I'd had a long and happy marriage was not a delusion; for most of those forty years, I lived a truly happy life. The surprise was that so little of my happiness had depended on Alan.*
*Which brings me back, of course - as almost everything does - to gardening. The great advantage of gardening as a challenge to facial and bodily decay is that even if the body goes, you have something left to love. For working in the garden produces more than exercise; it produces strength, joy, hope, a tan, natural beauty, vegetables, and, in Frances Hodgson Burnett's words, a future. Somehow I can't imagine that having thin knees or perky eyelids can ever provide such rewards.*
Very highly recommended.
*As I came ultimately to understand, my conviction that I'd had a long and happy marriage was not a delusion; for most of those forty years, I lived a truly happy life. The surprise was that so little of my happiness had depended on Alan.*
*Which brings me back, of course - as almost everything does - to gardening. The great advantage of gardening as a challenge to facial and bodily decay is that even if the body goes, you have something left to love. For working in the garden produces more than exercise; it produces strength, joy, hope, a tan, natural beauty, vegetables, and, in Frances Hodgson Burnett's words, a future. Somehow I can't imagine that having thin knees or perky eyelids can ever provide such rewards.*