Patchwork

by Elaine Ginn

Overview

PATCHWORK stitches together the challenges of caring for ailing elderly parents, facing personal life-threatening illness and surgery and embroiders it all together in a beautiful quilt of hope and love and understanding. You will find yourself thinking about your own choices and what really matters in life. The author gratefully reports surviving three deaths, her mother’s, her father’s, and her own. This book focuses on making a blessing of each moment. This is an easy yet profound read. Don’t be fooled. You’ll zip through it and wish there were more.
PATCHWORK is lavishly illustrated with photos of handmade quilts, each with a real-life patchwork story of its own that enriches and illumines the promise of the message. While the book is not about quilting, there is a reason for the quilts and the color photography adds a sense of comfort and a true appreciation for the metaphor of making things whole again, as we instinctively and repeatedly do with our lives.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016435329
Publisher:	Sea Light Press Inc
Publication date:	04/09/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Elaine Ginn was born in Iowa, has lived on both coasts, in Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois, and is now happily ensconced in sunny Florida. While her bachelor's and master's degrees belie an interest in nursing and health education, her heart and career have primarily been in teaching, writing, philosophy and spirit. Her children can literally claim that their mother wore Army boots (in the Army Nurse Corps), but not for long, as her independent nature did not take well to the military environment and was far better suited to the academic climate where she settled for twenty-five years at Western Illinois University. Fascinated and thrilled by her grandchildren and deeply grateful for every breath she draws, it continues to astonish her that anyone on this planet could claim to be bored. There is so much to learn and explore, understand and enjoy, how could anyone ever begin to fit it all into a lifetime, she wonders. In addition to Patchwork, you will enjoy her first book (as Elaine Vail), A Personal Guide to Living with Loss, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1982 and used as a text in her very popular course on Death and Dying at the university. She was also a contributor (as Elaine Blom) to a best-selling multi-author book, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love, published in 2004 by Seven Locks Press. All are available at www.sealightpress.com.
Elaine has also been a guest on the Oprah show, dialysis instructor, kidney/liver transplant survivor, and remains an enthusiastic writer. Now she has started a publishing company and is a professional speaker, passionate about empowering people to recognize how powerful they and what an amazing influence each one of us has on the world just by being ourselves. We are not broken nor do we need fixing, we need only to believe in ourselves and others and be open to loving and receiving the love that is already ours. The rest naturally flows! When you hear why and how much she believes in you, you will be absolutely unstoppable!

Editorial Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars A Book for Boomers 9-6-12 By Brian R. Hill Aging baby boomers seeking a story of substance in an often insubstantial culture can appreciate "Patchwork." Ginn presents a personal story of her aging and infirm parents that will strike a responsive chord in many boomers' hearts. The story of Jack and Marilyn, both prototypes of the Greatest Generation, is authentic in its valorization of the best of American parentage. The author's nurse's training brings added credibility.

http://www.amazon.com/Patchwork-Elaine-Ginn/dp/0985522100/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365819231&sr=1-1&keywords=Patc - Brian Hill

Elaine is resilient, compassionate, gifted and giving. Patchwork shares her story of challenges met with love and peace found in the midst of turmoil. If life seems to be coming at you a little too fast, wrap yourself in Elaine's story and be renewed.

http://www.amazon.com/Patchwork-Elaine-Ginn/dp/0985522100/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365819231&sr=1-1&keywords=Patc - Cindy Shellum, Rev.

With unflinching honesty and wry humor Elaine Ginn gives a touching personal account of her overwhelming health challenges and how this brave woman dealt with them. Her laser sharp eye for detail and total candor take you into the fears, tears and cheers of one family's momentous journey through sickness, death and emotional healing.

http://www.amazon.com/Patchwork-Elaine-Ginn/dp/0985522100/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365819231&sr=1-1&keywords=Patc - Dave Montgomery