The March of Days

Although Patricia M. Boyer won a scholarship to McMaster University with the highest mathematics marks in Ontario and graduated at age 19, literature and languages were her specialty. She first worked as a public librarian, next as a secondary school teacher, then as a newspaper editor. A community leader in arts and theatre, Patricia was devoted to human rights action in her local community and around the world, church work, drama, the education of children with disabilities, and music.

Each week she wrote a newspaper column inspired by episodes in the world around her, both local and global. She rewarded readers through articles infused with learning from literature, astute sensibility to human psychology, and balanced insights on the tragedies and comedies of life's passing parade.

Patricia Boyer summed up her approach to life as 'optimistic realism'.

This collection of the best of her celebrated columns, organized through the twelve months of the year or 'the march of days', includes reflections on seasonal celebrations, changing atmospheres of nature, and calendar milestones in the human cycle. A number of these concise yet poignant writings will move many readers with nostalgia as they evoke the happy events and tragic developments of the Sixties and Seventies. All of them, however, convey the wisdom of a woman whose message of optimistic realism endures like a timeless guide to living a satisfying life in the real world today. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

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• Published by

  Blue Butterfly Book Publishing, Incorporated

• Publish Date

  December 31, 2010 

• Print ISBN

  9780978498214

• eBook ISBN

  9781926577265

• Imprint

  Blue Butterfly Book Publishing, Incorporated

• Filesize

  1.21 MB

• Number of Print Pages*

  226

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