Our lives, it may be argued, are but a collection of moments, ranging
from the significant to the trivial, from the bright to the dark, from
the heartening to the heartbreaking. These moments are often fleeting
but it can be rewarding to catch them, hold them and ponder them.
Reflecting on them will trigger a variety of emotions that will help
give meaning to our lives.
Following the success of his collection Moments (2011), John Quinn has
assembled this second volume, Stolen Moments. The moments collected
range from major - the loss of a loved one - to minor - the nuisance of
dandelions - and in between embrace an unlikely variety of 'triggers' -
a spider's web, the lost art of whistling, a chance remark, a page from
a diary, a honeymoon bill. They can all help to nurture and heal, to
console and delight. Each retains, in the words of William Wordsworth, a
virtue 'whence...our minds are nourished and invisibly repaired'.
Stolen Moments offers its readers a deep well of nourishment and
repair.
