Former Franklinite releases his third book.

Contact: Charles F. Harrington FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Email: cfh95@aol.com

Charles F. Harrington, born and raised in what his father called ‘Beautiful Franklin Massachusetts’, has released his third book, entitled “Prose and Poetry from a Contemplative Life”.

This is the third book in his ongoing ‘Contemplative Life’ series. The book is a compilation of essays, commentary and observations, a good number of them in poetic verse. They feature postulations and conclusions drawn from a life of contemplation that has at its source the values and concepts he acquired both coming of age in the town of Franklin, as well as since he moved on to Connecticut’s ‘Quiet Corner’ some thirty years ago.

The book, along with his two previous works; “A Contemplative Life; Essays and Musings from the last of the baby boomers” and “A Contemplative Heart” are currently available on Amazon or direct from the author by emailing a request to him at cfh95@aol.com. The first two are also available for borrowing from the Franklin Public Library, where the author spent many hours as a boy honing his love for the literary. This newest book will be added there as well very soon.

As the middle child of nine siblings, children of John and Anne Harrington, Mr. Harrington has often been attributed to possess a significant 'gift for gab'. Growing up on Anchorage road in Franklin, his challenge was to forge an identity in the middle of a large Irish Catholic family, full of quick wit, clever banter and boisterous personalities. Story telling and writing were mainstays in that home, all encouraged by his father the English teacher, and his mother the daughter of her own gifted Irish storytelling parents.

These books are written as a labors of love intended to share the author's optimistic and grateful views on 'The gift of life'.

In a world full of documented tales of woe and misery, with bookshelves brimming with the victim stories of multitudes, it is the author's intent to offer a counter point of view. Every life contains great moments of difficulty and challenge, no one is exempt from that hard truth. Every life also however contains moments of great joy and blessings. We all choose, intentionally or not, how our individual story is both written, and read in our own minds. Mr. Harrington describes the works as follows;

"A Contemplative Life" is my story, a story of hope, optimism and gratitude. The life I have lived, cannot be written any other way, at least not by me.

“It is my sincere hope that others will read and identify with some of my experience, in a manner that reminds them of all that has been good in their lives. We DO have that choice, and this book is a reflection of my choice.”

The book contains just under 32,000 words on 149 pages and sells for $21 on Amazon. Gratis copies are available from the author upon request.