The Closer's Song

The Closer'S Song Is The Story Of A Life So Far. A Journey Of Self-Realization Through An Era Of Self-Discovery And Then An Era Of Self-Indulgence And Eventually The Fall From Hubris That Comes When We Have Become Too Proud. A Spiritual Quest To Find The Answers To Age-Old Questions Seen Through The Eyes Of A Newfound Innocence That We Can Only Regain Once We Have Been On The Odyssey. Standing No Longer In Judgment Of Ourselves But In Awe Of What We Will Never Know For Sure And The Forgiveness Of Having Taken Roads Less Traveled.. The Closers Song Opens In The Rapidly World Of Always Affluent Then Rural Now Suburban Westchester County New York. It Is The Fifties And We Are Thrust Into A World Of Poverty And Subsistence Farming In The Last Days Of Rural Living So Close To New York City. An Immigrant Family Of A Young Boy Our Hero And Our Eyes Whose Matriarchal Grand Mother Still Holds The Sound And Strength Of Her Mother Country Italy That She Left To Bring A Better Life For Those Who Come After Her. His Rough Searching Childhood Finds Shelter In The Local Church And The Early Guidance Of Local Priests. Encouraged To Find A Life As A Catholic Priest The Now Young Man In The Tumultuous `60'S Attends A Seminary That Brings Him Away From His Rural World And Into The Bustle Of New York Only To Be Thrust Into The Sexual And Drug Induced Euphoria Of The Time And A Discovery Of Life Long Love At The Pinnacle Event Of The Day Woodstock.. The World Changes Again As Our Hero Adapts Aptly To The Me Generation And The World Of Greed And Self-Satisfaction. He Discovers Gifts About Himself That Allow Him To Climb In The World Of Luxury Automotive Sales. The Treadmill And Over Indulgence Get The Better Of Him As He Continues To Battle The Ghosts Of His Childhood And Of A Life Search Unanswered.. All And All This Is The Story Of A Mundane Life Lived In The Later Part Of The Twentieth Century In Suburban New York. Uninteresting On The Surface But Told In A Way That Makes Us Realize The Similarities In All Life'S Journeys And The Discovery That Life In Itself Anyone'S Life For That Matter Can Be Seen As An Oracle Of Potent Poignancy And Poetic Beauty. A Book That Makes You Appreciate The Mythology In A Mundane Event Like A Sons First Baseball Practice. I Thank Christopher Cole For Giving The Gift Of This Insight And Outlook.Keith Gilroy