The Heart Of The Matter

by Rick Baldacci


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 12/03/2006

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 172
ISBN : 9781425912369

About the Book

This book is about a journey of a person looking for the heart of the matter of life. It is a story of a person who found welled up in his soul the residue of one emotional event after another. With the help and encouragement of some very special and gifted teachers, he endeavored to learn how to release those emotions by putting them into word paintings.

 

Day to day activities fill the pages of our lives; however, it is the poignant events that turn them. Because these events hold such hallowed ground, they are easily resurrected. They come dressed in the same images of the past and rekindle many of the feelings last remembered. Some are warm comforting “reunions,” welcomed home as one would welcome a friend. Others remain the sobering reminders they always were. A special few are as painfully sore as the day they happened. They are hard to relive, harder to forget, and are the hardest to share. Nevertheless, they are permanently inscribed on the walls of our souls and play a significant role in the sum of who we are.

 

This book is a gallery of emotions that began in a young heart, and grew as life and his many experiences marched onward. It is a look back and a look forward. It is also a realization that there is an answer to the question, “What really lies at the heart of the matter?”


About the Author

Although a native of Richmond, Virginia, he has lived the greater part of his life in Colorado. He is married with two children, and three grandchildren. His mother and father both came from large families. His mother, one of eleven siblings, came from an Irish Catholic family. His father, one of eight siblings, came from an Italian family. Growing up with these two very different cultural styles, provided an abundance of life forming memories. As distinctive as they were, both families shared certain things in common. They both loved to come together for meals and parties no matter the circumstance or day of the week. Each also loved to retell the stories of family experiences and revisit the emotions, both laughter and tears, that came with them. It was as if they knew intuitively the role they played in strengthening their very unique family relationships. The author grew up loving those stories and the directions they laid for his life.

 

He has spent most of his career in the field of Human Resources, currently working as a Human Resources executive for a biotechnology company in the Seattle, Washington area and spends some time consulting for companies in Minneapolis and Denver. Throughout his career, he has interviewed thousands of people from all over the world and even today continues to spend much of his time listening to the stories which bind people to a course in life or to a dream they hope to achieve.

 

A love for stories, a desire to express emotions and a delight in creating word pictures, has served as the driving force for his writing.