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Chargement... A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacherpar Sue Halpern
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Pransky was bored and so was her owner after her last child hit high school. So the author gets them certified as a therapy dog team and off they go every Tuesday to the local nursing home to visit the residents. Quite a few life lessons learned on the way during the years they worked together. ( ) [b:A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher|16158517|A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher|Sue Halpern|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1396844803s/16158517.jpg|21998933] 3 stars This was a short easy read. Something I thought would be a little lighter than what I am currently tackling- I was a little disappointed, as I thought there would be more(at least smile worthy)antidotes of the dogs interactions with seniors. The author used to many pages to quote philosophers and ideology on aging and dying. At times it felt like she needed to let us know how educated and smart she(and she is, not doubt. I just did not need proof of it every chapter). Did not fulfill my need to laugh and smile, but not wasted time either. Though woven with the sadness of the inevitability of death and dying in the County Nursing Home, this book is positive and inspiring on many levels, from basic caring, acceptance, generosity, and empathy to true non-judgment and compassion. Guided by Aristotle's Seven Virtues, the chapters unfold with growing love as Therapy Dog Pransky and companion/owner Sue journey through the hallways and rooms and gardens of the Nursing Home, meeting some of its most memorable main characters. "Pranksy knows the essence of people..." conveys the message of what they together learn and give to each other and to the residents and staff. The book also reveals the history of nursing home "reforms." Many readers may wish for and wonder why their own community does not have a County Nursing Home with a caring, accepting, loving staff and a Pransky. The book would warrant a Super Five Star Rating except for two things: 1. Unaccepting support of Temple Grandin who believes in Animal Experimentation. 2. Jaw-dropping times when Pransky is left alone in a locked car while the author shops. Not only is it easy to kidnap a dog from a car, but overheating and loss of oxygen easily happen even on cold days and nights. Worse still is the fact that the owners may suffer a health breakdown or accident where they are rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, leaving their pet to suffocate and die. I sure hope this practice gets changed in life and in new editions. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life. At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash--er, lease--on life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy dog team. Smart, spirited, and instinctively compassionate, Pransky turned out to be not only a terrific therapist but an unerring moral compass. In the unlikely sounding arena of a public nursing home, she led her teammate into a series of encounters with the residents that revealed depths of warmth, humor, and insight Halpern hadn't expected. And little by little, their adventures expanded and illuminated Halpern's sense of what virtue is and does--how acts of kindness transform the giver as well as the given-to. Funny, moving, and profound, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home is the story of how one faithful, charitable, loving, and sometimes prudent mutt--showing great hope, fortitude, and restraint along the way (the occasional begged or stolen treat notwithstanding)--taught a well-meaning woman the true nature and pleasures of the good life. "--
"A layabout mutt does a second act as a therapy dog working with the infirm and the aged, and fetches from that clarifying, life-and-death realm an inspiring sense of the core human virtues - love, fortitude, justice, charity, prudence, restraint, hope, and fun - and how to live them now.""-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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