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Lessons From the Porch has received much critical acclaim:
"Spring is the time to pull out the ice tea and get comfortable on your porch...Are you ready to sweep away the dead leaves and invite friends to gather and share their stories? Maybe even take time to rest, refresh, and reflect on your own life as you ponder these important and sometimes difficult questions: Where have you been and where are you going? What is your purpose? What are your goals?
In the book, Poole presents stories of personal, professional, and spiritual journeys that, in turn, question readers about their own lives and journeys...
Not sure if there's really a value for you to pause on your personal "porch"? Visit www.thelessonguy.com for more information on Poole's inspiring book Lessons from the Porch: A Gathering Place for Telling Our Stories and the free report, "Seven Reasons to Pause on Your Personal Porch."
--New Smyrna Beach Florida Observer
March 18, 2005
"Although some might be embarrassed or remain silent about their brush with mental illness, Poole reflected on what he learned during his time in the hospital and wrote a book titled Lessons from the Porch: A Gathering Place for Telling Our Stories."
--The Naperville Sun
"Lessons from the Porch: A Gathering Place for Telling Our Stories is Ed's personal travelogue of an inner journey that began in Columbus, Indiana, where he grew up, and continues today. In it, this gifted communicator relates stories of a dysfunctional childhood that explain why he was a candidate for clinical depression at midlife."
--The Daily Herald
"Lessons from the Porch is Ed Poole's thoughtful memoir of life's lessons, which he shares with endearing charm and good natured heart. A thoughtful journey and an engaging remini- scence of what it means to socialize and cultivate true friendships, the burden of life's hardships, and what it means to persevere and search for purpose, Lessons from the Porch is enthusiastically recommended as being a most enjoyable, thoughtful, and thought-provoking read."
--Midwest Book Review
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In his book, Poole presents stories of personal, professional and spiritual journeys that, in turn, question readers about their own lives and journeys. Poole explains, "The porch attached to the house in which I was raised has assumed a special meaning to me. The porch looked huge to my childlike eyes...It's the place I used and continue to use to rest, refresh, and reflect. The time spent on that porch has taught me an important lesson: how to live life with personal meaning, self-reflection, unconditional love, and forgiveness."
--Lamar Daily News
Lamar, Colorado
Although written about his own experience battling depression, the book is meant for anyone embarking on a journey to know themselves and cultivate true friendships. So Poole began the long journey delving into his own soul to come to peace with himself. Poole suggests people, especially men, not hesitate to seek professional help from a therapist, and perhaps a psychiatrist, if they feel depressed. Family and friends can help by continuing their relationships, being supportive, sensitive, and understanding.
--Aurora Beacon News
Waiting. Everything we do in life during change, between the beginning and the ending, puts us in a place where we're not there yet, and this forces us to wait. Contrary to conventional wisdom, waiting is not a passive action. Waiting is a kind of doing. The problem is that our society is inflicted with the dehumanizing characteristic known as "instant-itis." Whatever it is we want, we want it now. Waiting, second only to suffering, is the greatest teacher of maturity and spirituality that any of us will ever encounter in life. Waiting helps us learn who we are, if we can value the place we are in, and if we can avoid rushing someplace else. On our journey from beginning to ending we both act and wait. Lessons from the Porch will inspire you to enjoy the transitions, the beginnings/endings and the wait.
--The New American
Brooklyn, NY
Architecturally, we've somehow lost the porch in today's world. The front porch has been replaced by the back patio or deck, thus ensuring a more private existence where friends can't readily be invited to tell their stories and listen to ours. Metaphorically, porches still can offer a friendly and instructive window to the world, if we let them. We all have a porch in our lives, don't we? A place we return to and use as we pause to reflect on our lives. For Poole, it was indeed his porch. For others it may be that stream meandering lazily through the countryside. Or it may be the lapping of the waves along the seashore. Your "porch" may even be that easy chair at home that gives you the opportunity to get away from the pace of life and reflect for a while. Wherever and whatever that place is for you, it's important to value and honor its presence in your life, just as Poole has come to do with his porch.
--Greenville Journal
Greenville, SC
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