Collar to Cleavage eBook Judith Thomas
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Collar to Cleavage - a compelling read, a book that invites the reader to embark on a series of interweaving 'life' journeys. From a childhood spent in Wales to an adulthood of International proportions; travelling from one country to another - visiting and then living - putting down temporary roots, some in exotic far flung places, some in places where you would not want to live by choice.
To a personal journey which explores the motives and struggles of the human heart. It deals with life transitions both spiritual and emotional. It challenges us to examine how we process not only the joys but the difficulties of life.
It is humorous, poignant, and auto-biographical, yet it resonates with each of us. It invites us to reflect on our own issues in a wonderfully charming and light hearted way.
We meet larger than life characters from Swansea to Sumatra, from enigmatic Japan to a chicken factory in New Zealand. We examine the cultures of the Middle and Far east, especially the role of women.
The author's zest for life in all its fullness is infectious. She deals with the past - the aching loneliness of a marriage, her life as a corporate wife, the shock of a cross cultural adoption and exploring a life as a priest; we find that in her honesty we are able to understand ourselves better. Change is inevitable, life changes happen.
The book is a tale of her life, but it may also be used as the basis for deeper thoughts and discussions on the appropriate sections.
Read, smile and enjoy Collar to Cleavage
Collar to Cleavage eBook Judith Thomas
I received an email from Ms. Thomas about her book. It is only available on Kindle from Amazon so I thought I'd take a look at it. At first glance you would not expect a "can't put it down" book, especially with an autobiography. But that is what I got.I love the way the book starts: "Exotically Welsh' is how my daughter describes herself. I like that phrase. I have spent the main part of my life outside the principality, lived in eight countries and have visited over seventy more...How can I, who have spent seventeen years in the States, still say `lov-er-ly as if I had just come down from the mountains to water the sheep? How come, when visiting the Welsh community in Patagonia, I am faced with the fact that they can speak Welsh (God's own language) and I can't!"
The early part of her life in Neath is nearly heart breaking with the conservative family who refuse to even talk about "things that shouldn't be talked about" leaving the young girl to learn about life on her own. But Ms. Thomas spends time in France each summer with a French family and learns the language. She marries a man who "if I had dropped dead on the floor, would have stepped over me and carried on without a blink..."
But life with her first husband, an oil engineer, gave her the chance to travel the world. Her ability to speak French helped on a number of occasions. While in Belgium, for example, her boss, a American, asked her to explain to his stay at home wife, how to get to the launderette. "I then proceeded for the next few minutes, with my Welsh lilt, to give explicit directions to the facility. She looked blankly at me. Eyeball to eyeball. Then in a slow, paced, every syllable pronounced sentence said, "I don't speak French." Later in the book she and her mother (The Queen Bee) are in London on the subway. Her mother asks a Jamaican porter about the next train. He then asks, "You are not from this country are you?.. Don't they have trains in your country?" The chapter on her mother are heart-warming. She lived to be just short of her 99th birthday.
Thinking they could not have children, they adopted an eight day old Japanese girl leading to many interesting experiences, one of which was the discovery that she herself had been adopted. When traveling back to Britain via Dubai, young Alison Rachel receives a six day "Japanese Businessman's Visa" as there were no visas for Japanese infants traveling with Welsh parents. Of course, soon after the adoption Ms. Thomas had two children of her own, one blond girl and a red haired boy. All three children would dress up in Welsh attire on St. David's Day.
The descriptions and discussions of the cultural divides in the world are fascinating. The stories especially of her life and work in Indonesia are amazing, painful, and humorous altogether. Her work on three masters in theology led to her becoming ordained in the Church of England. Her experience back in the "drafty Welsh chapel pews" had led her to believe there was an 11th Commandment for women: Thou shalt wear a hat. Her work as a counselor in many locations was just as interesting as some of her other positions. Her doctorate from San Francisco Theological Seminary was on "Guidelines to the A Pastoral Care, of Expatriate Women Living on Compounds, in the Middle East." But her experience was much broader and described in detail. At Oxford she received a Diploma for Theology Graduates with Merit.
Ms (or should I say Rev. Dr.) Thomas ends with a short chapter on her marriage to her second husband Ron and the more full and sharing life she leads. "I can understand better what is meant by the `holiness' of it all amid the very real physicality. It is `Collar to Cleavage.' Cleavage as a metaphor for all that it means to embrace my womanhood, my sense of being feminine, of being capable and a voice `brought to speech.' To understand in the later chapters of one's life what is meant by, `the spark' is a blessing indeed."
Each chapter ends with a series of questions as if this book is meant for class rooms or seminars. That may be true, but it is the one thing I felt annoying in the book.
"What arrogance has caused me to think that anyone in their right mind would want to read or indeed hear, about such an oddball life? The sheer conceit of it all." I hope many of you will take up this book of life.
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Collar to Cleavage eBook Judith Thomas Reviews
I received an email from Ms. Thomas about her book. It is only available on from so I thought I'd take a look at it. At first glance you would not expect a "can't put it down" book, especially with an autobiography. But that is what I got.
I love the way the book starts "Exotically Welsh' is how my daughter describes herself. I like that phrase. I have spent the main part of my life outside the principality, lived in eight countries and have visited over seventy more...How can I, who have spent seventeen years in the States, still say `lov-er-ly as if I had just come down from the mountains to water the sheep? How come, when visiting the Welsh community in Patagonia, I am faced with the fact that they can speak Welsh (God's own language) and I can't!"
The early part of her life in Neath is nearly heart breaking with the conservative family who refuse to even talk about "things that shouldn't be talked about" leaving the young girl to learn about life on her own. But Ms. Thomas spends time in France each summer with a French family and learns the language. She marries a man who "if I had dropped dead on the floor, would have stepped over me and carried on without a blink..."
But life with her first husband, an oil engineer, gave her the chance to travel the world. Her ability to speak French helped on a number of occasions. While in Belgium, for example, her boss, a American, asked her to explain to his stay at home wife, how to get to the launderette. "I then proceeded for the next few minutes, with my Welsh lilt, to give explicit directions to the facility. She looked blankly at me. Eyeball to eyeball. Then in a slow, paced, every syllable pronounced sentence said, "I don't speak French." Later in the book she and her mother (The Queen Bee) are in London on the subway. Her mother asks a Jamaican porter about the next train. He then asks, "You are not from this country are you?.. Don't they have trains in your country?" The chapter on her mother are heart-warming. She lived to be just short of her 99th birthday.
Thinking they could not have children, they adopted an eight day old Japanese girl leading to many interesting experiences, one of which was the discovery that she herself had been adopted. When traveling back to Britain via Dubai, young Alison Rachel receives a six day "Japanese Businessman's Visa" as there were no visas for Japanese infants traveling with Welsh parents. Of course, soon after the adoption Ms. Thomas had two children of her own, one blond girl and a red haired boy. All three children would dress up in Welsh attire on St. David's Day.
The descriptions and discussions of the cultural divides in the world are fascinating. The stories especially of her life and work in Indonesia are amazing, painful, and humorous altogether. Her work on three masters in theology led to her becoming ordained in the Church of England. Her experience back in the "drafty Welsh chapel pews" had led her to believe there was an 11th Commandment for women Thou shalt wear a hat. Her work as a counselor in many locations was just as interesting as some of her other positions. Her doctorate from San Francisco Theological Seminary was on "Guidelines to the A Pastoral Care, of Expatriate Women Living on Compounds, in the Middle East." But her experience was much broader and described in detail. At Oxford she received a Diploma for Theology Graduates with Merit.
Ms (or should I say Rev. Dr.) Thomas ends with a short chapter on her marriage to her second husband Ron and the more full and sharing life she leads. "I can understand better what is meant by the `holiness' of it all amid the very real physicality. It is `Collar to Cleavage.' Cleavage as a metaphor for all that it means to embrace my womanhood, my sense of being feminine, of being capable and a voice `brought to speech.' To understand in the later chapters of one's life what is meant by, `the spark' is a blessing indeed."
Each chapter ends with a series of questions as if this book is meant for class rooms or seminars. That may be true, but it is the one thing I felt annoying in the book.
"What arrogance has caused me to think that anyone in their right mind would want to read or indeed hear, about such an oddball life? The sheer conceit of it all." I hope many of you will take up this book of life.
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