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Something to Think About

by Steve Frank Montoya, Jr. M.D.

98 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0592; ISBN 1-55369-779-0; US$15.50, C$17.65, EUR13.00, £9.00

Selected memoirs from 5 decades of life presented by a physician who seeks to understand the human characteristics of time, love and patience.

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About the Book These are selections from a collection of daily thoughts from over five decades by a person who is searching for the balance in life. These memoirs are presented and followed by an explanation that expands the scope of the original thought. The reader can view life at the points of extreme joy and pain. The reader gets to look into the private mind of a young man trying to grow and cope with the world around him. A philosophy is developed that helps the writer survive, that is, attention to patience and understanding relationships in reference to time.

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About the Author Dr. Montoya is a Texas physician specialist who has practiced medicine within the last four decades. he started writing daily memoirs at the age of 16. He is continuing to write daily notes through the joys and trails of life, becoming a father of six, marrying the same woman twice and re-discovering athletics in his middle age by competing in 5 sports.

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Excerpts

"The memory of love is like a thread into
time,
the memory of love serves to help me
make life bearable from moment to moment.
When life seems so hard and cruel,I
can reach within me to find
the softness of the memory
of our love.
The memory of love is sweetness against
the bitter coldness of changes in time.
The memory of love is like a shelter against
the elements,and it protects my heart
from the outside and keeps my spirit
warm within.
The memory of love sustains me and helps
me to hang on until the next time we meet.
Your memory allows my senses to come
aglow and alive with the memory
of the sensations of you."
September 16,1982

Through life we
collect memories,
be careful to only
collect the best ones,
for they must sustain
you until you let them
go at the moment of death.

"Freedom and love are at times uniquely
incompatible and at other times
beautifully compatible and congruous-
as if one has the freedom to
choose his love but love
once found is freedom lost"
November 18, 1975

Love is a tie,a binding,
a hook into an emotion
that grabs us from
that time forward.

"Love is never so far away that one can never
find it"
October 31,1967

When you are lost in love,the
distance to find it is immeasurable,
and will stay that way until
you open the door, allow
patience within your heart
and find love next to you

"Beauty does not lie in the
eye of the beholder,
it lies in the heart
of the beholder."
March 10,1982

We need to imagine
more how blind people
view beauty without their
eyes to guide them.
Perhaps beauty is
best viewed with
the eyes of our heart.
Beauty should be felt
not just seen.

"Sometimes behind the most ugly and
monstrous face exists the most
tender and sensitive heart,
Sometimes behind the most beautiful
and flawless face exists the
most cruel and insensitive heart" January 10,1982

Life constantly is presenting
us with opposites. Only if we are wise enough
to notice the differences can we make life mean more to
ourselves and others. Perhaps we can understand
beauty if we study things that
lack beauty or have beauty taken away from us.

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