![]() things that may be called simple or ordinary, but really are extraordinary."Īnd with Arthur's appreciation comes acceptance - something else to aspire to, says Berg. "It's very rare that we just go out with no agenda whatsoever in order to appreciate everything that's around us. ![]() ![]() We all, myself included, have a hard time slowing down to just look or just listen," she notes. "That's all I knew, is that he had a fold-up chair, that he brought his lunch, that the sandwich was wrapped in waxed paper, and that he sat there every day and communed with her."īerg reveals that writing about Arthur and his pace of life was refreshing. "I think that in today's hectic world. "I started with an image of an old man going out to a cemetery to sit beside his wife's grave," she says. Berg says that Arthur was the character she fixated on before starting up on this book. Over time, Arthur, Maddy and Lucille form an unconventional family of sorts, guided in large part by Arthur’s quiet wisdom on the concepts of kindness, aging, acceptance, and the meaning of life itself. He eventually crosses paths with another frequent graveyard visitor, the angsty 18-year-old Maddy Harris who also lost her mother at an early age. But he visits his beloved deceased wife Nola’s grave every day at lunchtime, taking a simple sandwich and sometimes a baked good from his neighbor Lucille. ![]() ![]() He lives with his cat Gordon, he tends to his garden. At a glance, his life seems rather ordinary. Arthur Moses, aka Truluv, is an 85-year-old widower. ![]()
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