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But Love Is Long is a testament to the depth and endlessness of love. It need not be romantic as in Emily Bronte's celebrated Wuthering Heights with Heathcliff and Cathy, or as an Oliver and a Jenny played by Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw in the 1970's movie, Love Story; it is just as meaningful and powerful when fashioned after a remarkable dog with his love for family, and his zest for live. J'aime is a beautiful Maltese who brings much love and joy to all around and demonstrates courage and resiliency, starting at three months old. He is not quite three years old, when he unwittingly teaches, through his own transformation from a loving and cheerful demeanor to one of grouchiness and anger, that jealousy and hate are not harmonious with good health. When a second dog is brought into the family, he does not want to share his space and feels threatened at losing his status of being the one and only. This leads him into a cheerless, miserable state which neither his doctor nor a whisperer can fix. Dramatically overcoming this flaw, he matures into acceptance and becomes the new dog's caring and loving friend. Ironically, it is his empathy for the new dog, whose presence he once despised, that helps him to completely recover from his depression. He experiences a near-catastrophic incident while weekend-boarding at a veterinary facility. The cover-up, and a series of lies from those who should have been protecting him, delay the necessary treatment but he miraculously quickly rebounds from the traumatic event. But Love is Long also looks at the power of acceptance and forgiveness; and vividly shows images of immeasurable love as well as images of unimaginable lies and cruelty. It is heartwarming and gut-wrenching-sometimes tempting laughter while stifling tears, as it luminously casts love against hate and humanity against cruelty. Love can live on, long after life is gone, is what the author endeavors to make the reader see in But Love Is Long.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798855682670 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 12/13/2023 |
| Pages: | 294 |
| Sales rank: | 261,763 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.62(d) |
About the Author
Joan Senior writes under the pen name JE Senior. She lives in upstate New York. But Love is Long is her first non-fiction book.
From an early age Joan was fascinated by books. Before she could read she 'read' out loud from comic books by describing the actions of images in each frame. She was the audience for an older brother, who each day after preschool, recited and recounted the lessons he had learned. Learning from him, by the time she was old enough for preschool, she was almost ready to graduate to the next level.
In primary school, she was always ahead of each class, skipping an early grade; and by age 10 was placed in a special class with other students who like her were too young for the senior form but who had outclassed all other forms in the school's curriculum.
While studying at George Washington University, where she received her BBA, she chose a Creative Writing course as one of her electives and excelled. Her essays were often, if not always, chosen as one of those, and later, as those, to be read to the class.
The young Joan while living in Toronto worked under the title 'Correspondent' at Columbia Records of Canada, a job which attracted her for its promise of merging her writing skills with her emerging business skills achieved as a graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (now Ryerson University). But over the years her writing was confined to writing business reports and memorandums.
As a child, some of the classics available in comic book format whetted her appetite for unabridged versions: Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, to name a few. These samplings and stories synopsized, by her mother from memory, notably, Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca,' instilled in Joan a life- long love for the beauty and power of words.
She loves the magic of verse and rhyme and can still write a proper sonnet for any occasion. It is Wordsworth's "The holy time is quiet as a nun, breathless with adoration" that she sees when watching sunsets. In difficult moments, it is Kipling's line "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, which sees her through.
But Love is Long was an idea during the dark hours of Covid-19, which did not gain stature until 2023. The title is inspired by the Cornish folk song "Life is Short but Love is Long."
JE Senior is honest and completely unguarded in this inspirational presentation.
From an early age Joan was fascinated by books. Before she could read she 'read' out loud from comic books by describing the actions of images in each frame. She was the audience for an older brother, who each day after preschool, recited and recounted the lessons he had learned. Learning from him, by the time she was old enough for preschool, she was almost ready to graduate to the next level.
In primary school, she was always ahead of each class, skipping an early grade; and by age 10 was placed in a special class with other students who like her were too young for the senior form but who had outclassed all other forms in the school's curriculum.
While studying at George Washington University, where she received her BBA, she chose a Creative Writing course as one of her electives and excelled. Her essays were often, if not always, chosen as one of those, and later, as those, to be read to the class.
The young Joan while living in Toronto worked under the title 'Correspondent' at Columbia Records of Canada, a job which attracted her for its promise of merging her writing skills with her emerging business skills achieved as a graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (now Ryerson University). But over the years her writing was confined to writing business reports and memorandums.
As a child, some of the classics available in comic book format whetted her appetite for unabridged versions: Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, to name a few. These samplings and stories synopsized, by her mother from memory, notably, Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca,' instilled in Joan a life- long love for the beauty and power of words.
She loves the magic of verse and rhyme and can still write a proper sonnet for any occasion. It is Wordsworth's "The holy time is quiet as a nun, breathless with adoration" that she sees when watching sunsets. In difficult moments, it is Kipling's line "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, which sees her through.
But Love is Long was an idea during the dark hours of Covid-19, which did not gain stature until 2023. The title is inspired by the Cornish folk song "Life is Short but Love is Long."
JE Senior is honest and completely unguarded in this inspirational presentation.
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