Dancing with Power

By Francis D. Natali

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970504101
• ISBN13: 9780970504104
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: RavenSpeaks Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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.

A wonderful guide to help transform your life

This book helps illuminate a path to a more full and meaningful life. It does not suggest that this is easy, but rather guides the reader in a gentle, humerous, and deeply honest way too see the joy in the process of it. The author uses true, inspiring, and touching stories to illustrate how this transformation has been accomplished by different people, of different backgrounds throughout the world, including stories of his own personal transformation. It is an honest depiction of how one can move from the struggle of "everyday" life to the profound joy that is the appreciative life, and makes the reader see that this is available to anyone willing to take it on.

I'm glad I read this book!

Dancing With Power came into my life at the perfect time. It is one of those books that I need to keep handy and whatever page it opens to is precisely what I am needing to read at that moment. This book presents extraordinary material in a readable, down to earth style, often using anecdotes from the author's life to illustrate his point. Dr. Natali is inviting all of us to live our own unique extraordinary lives and his book gives us the tools to do this.

Dancing with power by Dr. Francis D. Natali

This is an awesome inspiring book!!! I read it in 3 sittings as I couldn't put it down. Oprah needs to put this book on her book of the month club list!!!

Great book

I found this text to be insightful, inpirational, and original without ever coming across as preachy. I highly recommend it to all those looking for a fresh outlook or a little direction in their every day lives.