“Easy Listening” is nothing more than what essayist Andrew Rooney merely called “pieces of my mind,” an old man’s rumblings, notes, and notations on nouns and verbs, on persons, places, and things, little essays on family and friends, life and times, on flora and fauna, cats and dogs, customs and traditions, experiences that strike a chord, not necessarily discordant, on this one passerby who’s been there, done that, yet not quite over the hill, searching for more rainbows in an already colorful life and career. Happily, they are just that, rumblings, not rants, on what is true, good, beautiful, and memorable. Jotting them down, glossing over them, make, for the author, a veteran journalist and university lecturer, the essence of a good life, like savoring a cup of brewed, steaming hot coffee in the morning. Enjoying them through sheer remembrance, seizing the moment, listening to winds of change, looking back with joy, love and thanksgiving in one’s heart, is one secret to youthfulness and towards happy old age.

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