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    A Connoisseur's Journey: Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy. A Continuation.
    A Connoisseur's Journey: Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy. A Continuation.
    A Connoisseur's Journey: Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy. A Continuation.
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    A Connoisseur's Journey: Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy. A Continuation.

    By Jeffrey Lant

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    The gloriously written memoir "A Connoisseur's Journey: Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy." by Dr. Jeffrey Lant, gives you what you want in a memoir... humor, indiscretion, secrets, stories of the rich and famous, stories about places and situations you've longed to visit and enjoy.

     Here after a pause in Dr. Lant's memoir writing, because he had entered a phase in his life where he was never quite sure where his life was going and  writing memoirs became not just challenging, but impossible.

    However, given the fullness of time and some patience, here again Dr. Lant is ready to start the process of telling it like it was, telling of major and important events. When you see what was, you'll understand why that decision was made.

    Come now and join Dr. Lant for “A Connoisseur's Journey: Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy. A Continuation".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeffrey Lant
    Release dateAug 29, 2016
    ISBN9781536564549
    A Connoisseur's Journey: Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy. A Continuation.
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    Jeffrey Lant

    Dr. Jeffrey Lant is known worldwide. He started in the media business when he was 5 years old, a Kindergartner in Downers Grove, Illinois, publishing his first newspaper article. Since then Dr. Lant has earned four university degrees, including the PhD from Harvard. He has taught at over 40 colleges and universities and is quite possibly the first to offer satellite courses. He has written over 50 books, thousands of articles and been a welcome guest on hundreds of radio and television programs. He has founded several successful corporations and businesses including his latest at …writerssecrets.com His memoirs “A Connoisseur’s Journey” has garnered nine literary prizes that ensure its classic status. Its subtitle is “Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy.” A good read by this man of so many letters. Such a man can offer you thousands of insights into the business of becoming a successful writer. Be sure to sign up now at www.writerssecrets.co

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      A Connoisseur's Journey - Jeffrey Lant

      INTRODUCTION

      This document has stared at me accusingly for some time now. But frankly, I was never quite sure where my life was going at the period chronicled, which, of course, makes writing memoirs not just challenging, but impossible.

      Now, however, given the fullness of time and some patience, which is not usually mine, I am ready to start the process of telling it like it was. When you see what was, you'll understand why I made this decision.

      I have been, throughout my entire life, a rampant planner. While the grasshoppers danced, I, the ant, planned and worked to achieve the plan. I have never regretted my decision, though when I looked upon the frolics of my peers, I was often frustrated, even sad I could not indulge myself in them.

      In my late 20's, I wrote an extensive document on how I intended to make an independent income and live the independent life I desired more than anything else. I was not afraid of the uknown, because I had planned long and hard for its arrival.

      Then fate, as it so often does, intervened. In 2015, I learned the relevance of this phrase: Man proposes, God disposes. One evening, a misstep in my bedroom began a series of horror stories, thereby showing how little control most of us have. But the consequences came as a decided shock to me.

      First, as described in the graphic fragment that follows, my head and the hard oak floors of my bedroom had a contest about which was harder. The floors won. I had been lucky most of my life to need nothing more than routine medical care. That ended in an instant, in the deep penetrating darkness of my bedroom.

      My partners at the company I co-founded, with whom I had done cordial business for over 20 years, jumped up, and, surpassing fast, made me an offer for my majority interest in this profitable company. They were terrified at what might happen if I did not sell my shares to them.

      As it stood upon the day of my fall, my niece Chelsea and my nephew Kyle, neither of whom have any technology interests as far as I know, would have become, in an instant, the prime shareholders of a very well known internet company with emoluments to show. This was no doubt intolerable to my long time partners, who would have been most unhappy to take any orders whatsoever from two kids. I understood their point, and was willing to work with them to solve the problem.

      Try to keep in mind that during the period I am here writing about, I was very ill, even with the possibility of dying very much present. Thus, I understood why, when my partners called to check my progress, that portion of the discussion was minute compared to their acute interest in acquiring my shares and thereby protecting their company.

      Thus, the discussion went like this: Are you any better today? Now here's what we need to do about the transfer of your shares. It was understandable and macabre, but it got much, much worse.

      When you work with people as closely as I did with my former partners, you develop the relationship people these days call family. One of the benefits of having such a long-term relationship is that you're not bushwacked or the beneficiary of behaviors and consequences you never expected. In short, there is a kind of humanity about such relationships. I was the CEO, as well as the majority shareholder. And this, I thought, entitled me to a certain immunity from craziness and any number of traits condemned in the Ten Commandments. But was I ever wrong.

      To complicate matters, my father died at 91. His demise was not unexpected, of course... over 90 one walks hand in hand with death, but its precise timing was unfortunate, as what death is not at any time?

      Due to my health situation and my father's death, the focus I expected on the publication of the first volume of my memoirs did not occur. The book came out to no fanfare whatsoever, despite the importance of the text, and the remarkable nature of the book. It was as if a tree fell in the forest, and no one heard a peep.

      But then, fireworks truly began. For those of you

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