At the time of this writing Richard Monkman has witnessed 30,671 sunsets. He takes this literal fact, with its accompanying experiences, into the realm of the spirit and proceeds from there into a description of 20th century social history. His own personal history gives the framework for the story. That history begins in poverty, then moves upward with the nations economy into the Middle Class. The fortuitous career choice of clerical ordination as well as wide international travel and keen personal powers of observation make the author an able interpreter of his time and place.
At the time of this writing Richard Monkman has witnessed 30,671 sunsets. He takes this literal fact, with its accompanying experiences, into the realm of the spirit and proceeds from there into a description of 20th century social history. His own personal history gives the framework for the story. That history begins in poverty, then moves upward with the nations economy into the Middle Class. The fortuitous career choice of clerical ordination as well as wide international travel and keen personal powers of observation make the author an able interpreter of his time and place.
A growing number of the populace is experiencing the trauma of an onslaught of Alzheimers disease. The devastation reaches deeply into the lives of many surrounding the patient. In the early stages an alien personality wafts in and out of the familiar loved one, ultimately ending in a relieving bereavement. Richard S. Monkman, a clergyman with four decades of experience, one day found his beloved wife of fifty-six years asking a daughter, Who is that nice man who goes out and does kind things for people? From this experience, Dr. Monkman was determined to tell the story of consistently loving a person with such an itinerant presence. The result is the psychological novel Trinity Lake.
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