Dialogues of the Loon

This is a book about Love – the most enduring plot engine of literary history, from ancient times to modern. Some things have changed, others have not. Many other things appear to have changed, but really remain the same. What wisdom can be found that will enlighten our modern understanding of love? "Dialogues of the Loon" is the fifth book in the Jack Slack Shoebox Dialogues series that explores contemporary issues of finding, losing, and recovering love.

This is a book about Love – the most enduring plot engine of literary history, from ancient times to modern. Some things have changed, others have not. Many other things appear to have changed, but really remain the same. What wisdom can be found that will enlighten our modern understanding of love? "Dialogues of the Loon" is the fifth book in the Jack Slack Shoebox Dialogues series that explores contemporary issues of finding, losing, and recovering love. This book turns to characters and storylines to compel imagination and deeper thought on young love, finding love at an older age, love surviving the challenges of life crises, and finding love again after loss. Each chapter is told from a unique point of view and offers a different perspective on love. From a more modern philosophical construct, the sum of the stories offers up a perspectival assessment of love that enables readers to engage both with the book and with their own friends in gaining wisdom about love.

George Benda grew up in the Chicago area and studied at the University of Chicago during the 1970s. A lifelong environmentalist, George has led both public agencies and private companies in the pursuit of a sustainable world. His personal mission from his late teen years to now has been to create modern philosophical dialogues that will help right the human relationship with our natural world. George is the author of the Jack Slack Shoebox Dialogues.