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    The Impossible Dream
    The Impossible Dream
    The Impossible Dream
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    The Impossible Dream

    By Jean Parkin

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    The Impossible Dream is about changing the disillusionment and mental ravages of aging into a time of new goals, vigour , happiness and joy, by following a few different strategies, conserving health and wellbeing.  

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGlobal Summit House
    Release dateOct 23, 2020
    ISBN9781636492605
    The Impossible Dream
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    Jean Parkin

    She was born and reared in South Africa.She emigrated to Canada, and has Canadian Citizenship. She was married to the late Dr. Don Parkin and has five children. She is a classically trained Soprano, collects Art and reads the Classics.She believes in Sir Ernest Shackleton's motto " By endurance we conquer"

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      Book preview

      The Impossible Dream - Jean Parkin

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      The Impossible

      Dream

      Jean Parkin

      Copyright © Jean Parkin.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by reviewers, who may quote brief passages in a review.

      ISBN: 978-1-63649-261-2 (Paperback Edition)

      ISBN: 978-1-63649-262-9 (Hardcover Edition)

      ISBN: 978-1-63649-260-5 (E-book Edition)

      Book Ordering Information

      Phone Number: 315 288-7939 ext. 1000 or 347-901-4920

      Email: info@globalsummithouse.com

      Global Summit House

      www.globalsummithouse.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Introduction

      Dedication

      Part 1: Poem; The Elderly

      Part 2: Redemption in Aging

      Synopsis

      Bio

      Introduction

      Many changes have occurred in life in the process of aging, but none has become as stationary and blocked as those that is the way people age today. The elderly is caught in a swirl of social changes that has left them far behind, even totally out of society. They have become the walking dead, unable to be stirred to enthusiasm, embracing the most morbid depths of their soul. Like the created creature of Frankenstein, society has created the contorted life of the elderly in modern times, whereby the elderly had been robbed of the natural freedoms of the last years of life, before reaching their full humanity as a natural course of daily living, overflowing with promise and hope. Instead of experiencing the grandest

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