📖 The book is a collection of assorted essays which chronicles the author's professional business failures and his struggle to recover from economic demise; as well as his frequent road-trips - oft times alone, and sometimes with young grandsons - by way of adventure and in his quest to acquire and compile a family genealogy. It includes philosophical essays dealing with the nature of reality, delusion, and miracles; as well as essays that deal with his concerns pertaining to political and economic threats to the nation. And finally, a few brief essays concerning observations of odd phenomena from the natural world. In all, a variety of topics such as to suggest the necessity of even a specialist for delving into the realm of a generalist.