Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's Paperback - 2010
by Hoblitzelle, Olivia Ames
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"Ten Thousand Sorrows & Ten Thousand Joys offers a vision of lives well-led, and of love in the thick of crisis and loss. Beyond inspiring."-Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
"This beautiful book is unlike any other personal account of living with Alzheimer's disease that I have ever read . . . it offers patients and families practical insights into how they can live their lives more fully amidst the heartbreak of a mind-robbing illness."- Paul Raia, Director of Patient Care and Family Support, Alzheimer's Association, Massachusetts Chapter
"A story of courage, love, and growing wisdom in the face of Alzheimer's."-Joseph Goldstein, author of One Dharma, Founder / Director of Insight Meditation Society
In this profound and courageous memoir, Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle describes how her husband's Alzheimer's diagnosis at the age of seventy-two challenged them to live the spiritual teachings they had embraced during the course of their life together. Following a midlife career shift, Harrison Hobliztelle, or Hob as he was called, a former professor of comparative literature at Barnard, Columbia, and Brandeis University, became a family therapist and was ordained a Dharmacharya (senior teacher) by Thich Nhat Hanh. Hob comes to life in these pages as an incredibly funny and brilliant man who never stopped enjoying a good philosophical conversation-even as his mind, quite literally, slipped away from him. And yet when they first heard the diagnosis, Olivia and Hob's initial reaction was to cling desperately to the life they had had. But everything had changed, and they knew that the only answer was to greet this last phase of Hob's life consciously and lovingly.
Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows provides a wise and compassionate vision for maintaining hope and grace in the face of life's greatest challenges.
(This memoir was originally self-published as The Majesty of Your Loving.)
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- Title Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's
- Author Hoblitzelle, Olivia Ames
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher TarcherPerigee
- Date 2010-09-30
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1585428272_new
- ISBN 9781585428274 / 1585428272
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.18 x 5.58 x 0.95 in (20.78 x 14.17 x 2.41 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Topical: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Alzheimer's disease - Patients, Alzheimer's disease - Patients - Care
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010023611
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.196
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Summary
"This beautiful book is unlike any other personal account of living with Alzheimer's disease that I have ever read . . . it offers patients and families practical insights into how they can live their lives more fully amidst the heartbreak of a mind-robbing illness."- Paul Raia, Director of Patient Care and Family Support, Alzheimer's Association, Massachusetts Chapter
"A story of courage, love, and growing wisdom in the face of Alzheimer's."-Joseph Goldstein, author of One Dharma, Founder / Director of Insight Meditation Society
In this profound and courageous memoir, Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle describes how her husband's Alzheimer's diagnosis at the age of seventy-two challenged them to live the spiritual teachings they had embraced during the course of their life together. Following a midlife career shift, Harrison Hobliztelle, or Hob as he was called, a former professor of comparative literature at Barnard, Columbia, and Brandeis University, became a family therapist and was ordained a Dharmacharya (senior teacher) by Thich Nhat Hanh. Hob comes to life in these pages as an incredibly funny and brilliant man who never stopped enjoying a good philosophical conversation-even as his mind, quite literally, slipped away from him. And yet when they first heard the diagnosis, Olivia and Hob's initial reaction was to cling desperately to the life they had had. But everything had changed, and they knew that the only answer was to greet this last phase of Hob's life consciously and lovingly.
Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows provides a wise and compassionate vision for maintaining hope and grace in the face of life's greatest challenges.
(This memoir was originally self-published as The Majesty of Your Loving.)
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/2010, Page 21
- Library Journal, 11/15/2010, Page 81
- Publishers Weekly, 08/30/2010, Page 38
