David Grayson

Quiet contemplations on the delights of life that we so often overlook, the common everyday pleasures: "Some may think that these common things are not riches; so many people have riches all around them that they never see".

When you give A Gift of Friendship, you give some of the finest of David Grayson's writings: "What is more satisfactory to the human heart than to be needed and to know we are needed?"

"I have tried to relate," explains Grayson, "the experiences of that elusive, invisible life which in every man is so far more real, so far more important, than his visible activities -- the real expression of a life much occupied in other employment." He is successful. In this, one of his most sensitive books, Grayson introduces us to his 'Woman of Forty-Five', his 'Green People', pragmatic old John Templeton, and the irascible James Howieson. Then there's Horace, "a Yankee of the Yankees, who loves nothing better than to chase his friends into corners with questions, and leave them ultimately with the impression that they are somehow less sound, sensible, practical, than he is -- and he usually proves it, not because he is right, but because he is sure...". This book is a symphony for the five senses, recognising the best in each of them.

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Authors, American; Farm life; Amherst Region (Mass.); Contentment; Country life; American essays; Biography

Your own personal diary with excerpts from Grayson's writing and lots of space for your own reflections.