When Hearts Surrender: Memories in a Shoebox & Other Keepsakes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781977213235)

Ronald Montgomery is a world-traveled writer and community activist. His perspective of life is formulated based on several decades as an academician and life-coach, as a humanitarian and as a professional writer of business publications.

His poetic writings are an avocation and acknowledgement of life's nuanced and collaborative construction of our individual pathways. Our interactions with one another are elaborated on with a core theme that he identifies as "the real secret."

He also shares an underlying theme of "common experiences." That is, we do not experience things in a vacuum and no experience is so unique that others have not experienced something similar. Pervasive in his writings is the belief that we all influence others and are also influenced.

A fundamental belief expressed throughout is that there is always something to be learned from each experience. Each experience has a thread that connects to the next and ultimately leads us to the "one thing and the real secret" that connects and empowers everything. That one thing is finally identified for readers in his book.

He brings all of his skills to bear by identifying this concept that a lifetime of research has revealed.