A warm and moving collection of stories and poems that survey a long life well lived. Ms Leete had the good luck of a loving family, headed by a doting father, several of whose remarkable letters to his wife and daughters are justly included here. Her own stories and poems include her youthful journalism, from when she covered the American civil rights movement for Parisian papers. She includes as well, with moving clarity, her struggle to cope with the loss of her beloved husband and the healing powers of returning to the cello and taking up T'ai Chi, of delving deeply into the healing power of friends and home.