The author brings his love of the English language, nurtured by his life in Palestine, Guyana, Barbados, England and Argentina to a mixture of hope, sadness, love, disillusion and all the other experiences to which human beings are subjected. He has contended with rejection, exclusion, terrorism, injustice, hope and love. He now in old age finds contentment and amusement in the ways of the world, free of illusions, and delusions, while he contemplates the beautiful cattle and crops on his extensive farm, and tries to persuade a golf ball to go straight. May his epitaph be: He tried his best.