You’ve nailed me too: “I innately poorly handle quick changes.” I do better when I have a little time to think about how to respond to change, given the choice. 🙂 I hope you’re right that in growing older, we can do that a little better than we did as young wives and mothers. Because, definitely, our days are full of change! (Has a single day every gone exactly as planned? I can’t think of one. ha)

Perhaps you’re right and this is harsh for me. haha. Typically if I don’t like a book, I won’t mention it at all (out of sight, out of mind). But sometimes that’s not possible. And fortunately this wasn’t a bad book; just not particularly informative to me at this season (that’s a nice way to put it, yes?).

I liked the book’s title too. I like more the wisdom you’re sharing: we don’t have to read every word to get what we need from a book. There’s a lot of freedom in that for someone like me who is usually too compelled to not skip a word once I commit to a book. ha. I recently “read” Thoreau’s “Walden” (finally) but definitely did not read every word yet I still feel like I benefited from the pieces I did read.

I don’t think I saw the review on The Radical Pursuit of Rest, but you’ve definitely got me curious now, Pam. Thanks for sharing your find! I like hearing what inspires others.

That’s a good way to look at it all, Debbie. After I started reading this book, I wasn’t sure why I had agreed to, but you’re right: maybe it wasn’t just for myself but to share something from it that someone else could use too.

I agree with you, Betty. I still have things I need to learn of course, but these books are sometimes better suited for those still learning things that we had to learn years ago. 🙂