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A Scrapbook for Sandy

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"A Scrapbook for Sandy" was sent to me by a dear friend who lives far away, who I don't see very often but with whom I shall always have a very close bond. I received the book after a long days' journey, too full of too many different airplanes and airports. Just as I was thinking how exhausted I was to be back in New York, I saw this large package on my desk, awaiting my return. Upon opening it, I sat for at least two hours reading and laughing, smiling and thinking, completely unaware of tasks in front of me and the exhausting trip behind me. What warmth and inspiration! What a passion for loving and living the book contains! For any of those most dear, I recommend sending a copy of Cecile Mactaggart's "A Scrapbook for Sandy" right away! They will cherish it for years to come and they will return to it often for sustenance, solace and delight!

"A Scrapbook for Sandy" is a marvelous love poem. Its author has worked her pictures and text together so that both, reinforcing each other, present a large and moving serenade.

We can all only hope to live our lives with kind of heartfelt passion that this author chronicles. Truly inspired and inspiring!

The only problem was that as I read it from cover to cover, I kept crying - it was the darndest thing. But my tears fell continuously.

I thought I will write her after I have finished reading it. I can't finish it! Every time I start, I have to begin again at the beginning. I never get very far.

"During the past weeks, I read a few pages of A Scrapbook for Sandy each morning with breakfast, looking out over the ocean towards the island hills. It was with a pang that finally I finished it today."

During the past weeks, I read a few pages of A Scrapbook for Sandy each morning with breakfast, looking out over the ocean towards the island hills. It was with a pang that finally I finished it today."

There is little more that I can add to the already glorius reviews, but I can try. This is a book of consument love. I have a certain distant relationship to Sandy, and have constantly been impressed by his multitude of most positive traits . He is my idol of what a true humanitarian should be, What would his biography be like/ A list of dates, places, gifts and rewards; all dry and tedious? No! This rendering by Cecile is the most descriptive picture of a man's soul. It is trite to say just that it is beautiful; one does cry and laugh, but truly one thinks as the pictres and pages flip by. The reader gets not just the pure picture of Sandy but also of Cecile , the children, Scotland , the Bahamas and the world around us- which the biography truly represents. Who was called,"A man for all Seasons"?