Robert Firger

Ten Thousand Presents: a Poetic Adventure in Love on the Journey to Healing Robert Firger

TenThousand Presents leads us, by way ofprose and poetry, through the adventures of Betsy and Robert Firger as they rose to meet the challenges of a lifetime. The prose traces the course of their marriage, careers, family, travels andultimately Betsy's illness and death from cancer. The poetry of how they livedthrough the social demands and personal struggles of their generation evidencestheir singular world, which they created with spirit, joy and love. Their story addresses a range of triumphs over crisesincluding mental illness, evolving careers and health and recovery whenconfronted with cancer. It inspires and teaches by the example of their resolveto challenge conventional wisdom and respond uniquely tomany of the difficulties we all will face with maturity and aging. TenThousand Presents demonstrates how creativity and responsibility can yieldthe fortitude and courage to deal with life's most extraordinary trials. Byturning despair to hope and revisioning problems asopportunities, Robert and Betsy applied these lessons of success to findsolutions as gifts of love.