Generation X, Y and Zeke: Zealously Enthused Kinda Educated
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Living makes growing old inevitable. This book says to any Christian, at any age, that there will be times when motives may be questioned, lifes work made light, and character devalued by future generations. It will hurt the mind, so prepare. But how does anyone handle the erosion of deflowering self-worth at this golden age?
Paulette Brown
Paulette Brown is a freelance writer with over twenty five years experience who now resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received her MSM at Indiana Wesleyan University and began an educational pursuit at age thirty seven while raising her beloved six children as a single parent overcoming the stereotypes associated with welfare.
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Generation X, Y and Zeke - Paulette Brown
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WestBow Press rev. date: 09/11/2014
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Are we done yet?
Chapter 3 Reality Check
Chapter 3 The Awakening of the Invisible Man
Chapter 4 ‘Assumptions’
Chapter 5 Make Lemonade
Chapter 6 Memories Learn, Love, Move-On
Chapter 7 Bus Rides
Chapter 8 We Got This!
Chapter 9 More Biscuits
Chapter 10 First Things First
The Widows of Bethel Avenue
Epilogue
About the Author
For Four-Men and Two Beautiful Ladies
Preface
Chaotic adversities taught me to look for solutions instead of failure and blame. My initial goal after graduation, age 40 something was to break the glass ceiling. Instead, I found myself in a classroom until my own retirement. It was then that I began to recall and chronicle simple observations during my lifetime on the profound effect of God’s love.
Those written observations seem to have universal connection and add discovery to the tremendous ongoing troubles of those beings of S-AGE (senior-age). I found as I grow older that simplicity is a wonderful turnkey attitude. It seems to be that at my simplest, whether in clothing, conversation or deed, I am the most complex, and that names are more than purposed identification. Those fascinating discoveries led to the ultimate creation of Zeke Whitefield and his journey to Gracious Servant Leadership. ZEKE’s first name, by the way, owns up to his being-Zealously, Enthused, Kinda’, Educated and Whitefield, I’ll talk about later over a cup of betterment refreshment.
Acknowledgements
In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths,
Proverbs 3:6. Therefore, I thank the Lord God, His Son and the Church. Their undiminished spiritual encouragement taught me the true essence of Psalms 27:13, 14."
Introduction
It was the Baby Boomer’s Generation
of bargain wealth in the large economy size, known as the 5 and 10
Stores. A relative place of stature to socialize, eat burgers and buy candy to the Wahzoo
for a whopping 5 or 10 cents. This book in that same manner of wealth conveys in ten short chapters the human perplexities of the foreseen plight of those who grow older; yet, written with plausible explanation.
There are so many fights to which the elderly must contend. Tiny issues begin as flakes of intrusion, but then later snowball into just pure casualty. It is increasingly difficult to overcome thoughts of discontent when life’s balance is a constant juggle at any age. Zeke always felt it would be easy to navigate the waters of growing old gracefully, but for Zeke, that was a huge oversight.
Zeke Whitefield, a Northern resident with an acquired Southern soul, lives within the primary confines of his own personal maturation. His poignant, yet sometimes, humorous account of the aging process is a reflective combination of narrative lived by many older folks in