Dancing with Power
Author: Francis D. Natali
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ISBN: 0970504101
Publisher: RavenSpeaks Press (01 November, 2001)
Sales Rank: 979,349
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Finding a life that makes sense
In the interest of full disclosure, I know Dr. Francis "Nat" Natali, the author of "Dancing with Power." I met him 30 years ago, when he showed up at my house just as my wife and I were sitting down to breakfast. He was accompanied by one of the most striking women I had ever seen in person, a statuesque, olive-skinned, dark-haired beauty a little taller than Nat. He looked to be in his early thirties, she about ten years younger.
Nat quickly and politely explained why they had come. It seems he, a very successful but dissatisfied engineer, as he later explained, had been on one of his many peregrinations alone (described in the book), when he met my wife's father, Dan. Dan, too, was a kind of dissatisfied seeker, a gentleman in his middle fifties who had taken the last of his inheritance and bought a commercial salmon fishing boat.
Nat and Dan met in a fishing port somewhere on the northern California coast. They were both unusual people among the salmon fishermen, in that they were well educated. In fact, Nat approached Dan on hearing him speak, thinking, "He sure doesn't talk like a fisherman." Their ensuing conversation ended with Dan inviting Nat to visit him in Saratoga, California, where Dan lived in a little cabin on his ancestral land. My wife and I lived in "the big house" on the same land.
So Nat and his wife had come to our door that morning looking for Dan. Dan wasn't at home, so we invited them in to share our breakfast with us.
We were immediately taken with both of them. My wife, truth to tell, was a bit threatened by Nat's wife's beauty and was not inclined to pursue the friendship further. But I prevailed and, in any event, she and I parted company a few years later. I stayed in touch with Nat over the years, sometimes frequently, sometimes infrequently.
What I can say here is that his book is an agonizingly true and beautifully told account of the the adulthood of a man who would not settle for anything less than the ever-elusive "life that made sense." Watching his outwardly enviable life unfold, as I did, I eventually saw that he was constantly peeling away layers -- financial, interpersonal, psychological -- in which the world had somehow wrapped him, at first unnoticed, later against his will.
This book is an account of what he learned in that process. One rarely gets the opportunity to look inside the mind of a person who starts with nothing, eventually has it all, including two children by his beautiful wife, then jettisons most of it piece by piece as he keeps looking for the "life that makes sense."
Does he find it?
Read the book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
DANCING WITH POWER
DANCING WITH POWER is the tale of a 'Zenith Warrior' written with great clarity and soul searching. A must for anyone on the 'path'.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Dancing With Power
This is a tale of a 'Zenith' Warrior written with great clarity and soul searching. Easy to read. Full of positive energy. A must for anyone on the 'path'.
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