Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0385484518 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wyldanthem of Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA on 5/8/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by wyldanthem from Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA on Saturday, May 8, 2004
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live.

Tuesday with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.

Journal Entry 2 by wyldanthem from Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA on Sunday, May 9, 2004
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is one of the worst diseases I've ever read about. It's an illness that hijacks your neurological system and freezes your motor skills, leaving you motionless. Despite the deterioration of your body, however, your mind stays in tact, keeping you painfully aware of every movement you can't make.

But Morrie, Mitch Albom's beloved teacher and story subject, didn't let his fight with ALS get in the way of teaching one last class about life's greatest lesson: If you lead a fulfilling life, you've nothing to fear or lose in death.

Morrie makes some great points about life, death, and society, but the most poignant, I think is this: "Death ends a life, not a relationship." You are remembered by those whose lives you touched. Chasing fame or wealth isn't going to win you any friends. Morrie says to "Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you."

The way we treat death -- mourning a loss instead of celebrating a life -- is tragic. Tuesdays is a very honest chronicle of death, but despite that I was able to close this book with a smile on my face. Because Morrie continues to touch people's lives (like me, for instance), even after his death.

Journal Entry 3 by wyldanthem from Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA on Monday, May 10, 2004
Traded to cytronella! I won't be able to make it to the post office today, which is just as well -- I think it's more fitting for me to mail it tomorrow (Tuesday) anyway. :o) Hope you like it!

Journal Entry 4 by cytronella from Plantersville, Texas USA on Monday, May 24, 2004
Just arrived! I'm looking forward to reading this soon! Thanks for the good trade!

Journal Entry 5 by cytronella from Plantersville, Texas USA on Monday, December 13, 2004
A pleasure to read because even as you contemplate with Mitch the awful devestation of ALS, the grace and wisdom of Morrie Schwartz shines. The truth of the tale allows us to peek in on an experience very few ever really get to have, and I think we are all the better for it. Thanks, wyldanthem . . . again.

Journal Entry 6 by cytronella from Plantersville, Texas USA on Monday, December 13, 2004
Made a wish come true for tabby90, and this book is off to her today.

Journal Entry 7 by tabby90 from High Point, North Carolina USA on Friday, December 24, 2004
Got in the mail just in time for Christmas. Thanks so much!!

Journal Entry 8 by tabby90 at High Point, North Carolina USA on Sunday, March 6, 2016
I've had too many books for too long. Time for deep cuts to MT TBR. Getting this moving on to another reader.

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