Dr. Brookes, Our Small Town Doctor Who Changed the World!: Proudly remembered by friends and neighbours in Much Wenlock, fifty years after his death! (Eighty years of Living!, Band 3) - Softcover

Preen-Jones, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798365337176

Verlag: Independently published, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Dr. Brookes campaigned throughout his life for the rebirth of the modern Olympic Games. This story was originally written in 1955 when it seemed our Doc was the forgotten man and all my information was gathered from older members of our town who had known the good doctor and helped him achieve many of his local projects.
It’s a remarkable tale of what one determined person managed to achieve even as he continued to serve as the village Doctor for over fifty years! I have also included copies of old photos of our own Olympic Parades from the 1920’s, 40’s and 50’s.
Back in 1955, when I chose Doctor Brookes as the subject of my college thesis there was, to the best of my knowledge, no Biography in existence and I was totally dependent on the memories and keepsakes of those who had known the good doctor and his family, had lived alongside him in our small town where everyone knew everyone else and had competed in our Annual Olympic games in their youth.
Additionally, many of my sources had frequently been corralled, persuaded or inspired to lend a hand when needed and all were intensely proud of the Doctor's achievements. In fact, our own August Monday Olympic games celebrations were still the highspot of our year!
Dr. Brookes was remembered as a charismatic man, an absolute fountain of knowledge with an extraordinary ability to inspire great enthusiasm in all his friends, neighbours and aquaintances! His ability and proactive attitude not only allowed him to practice his profession for sixty years, but also to drive forward progress in so many areas of interest.
I confess I was mystified as to how he found the time as his Practice was spread over a large area of countryside and involved long hours on horseback. The solution, I decided, lay in his ability to use those long hours of solitude to think, to plan and to organise so that when he returned home, detailed letters, each filled with his dreams for the future plus multiple requests for assistance and support, were swiftly dealt with during his evening hours when, of course there was no radio, television, internet, cell phone,text messages etc.to disrupt his plans for the evening!
In many ways his greatest asset was the luxury of time to think and to dream of future possibilies without constant interruptions.
Today we live in a world where theoretically everything is at our fingertips! But alas it is all too easy to be distracted as we are contantly side-tracked by a digital world scattering useless twaddle which, all to often, diverts us from our original task!
Perhaps we should pay more attention in this modern world to the absolute necessity to make time to allow our minds to think for themselves, to roam and wander amongst knowledge we have already gathered and squirrelled away, to investigate, to explore and to plan without those constant interuptions which currently splinter any available thinking time into a series of 'sound clips' devoid of any creative scope!

'A busy mind in many places true beauty of the soal embraces!'

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798365337176
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 99
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