A Time for Everything

by Cecil Rhodes

A Time for Everything explores all the things that happened to one family in one generation and how they dealt with them. Each life story is fictional though some are based on actual life experience. The book also explores how our beliefs and philosophies are tied into and try to interpret the things that happen to us. It addresses controversial and difficult experiences such as dying, death, grief, divorce, gender identity, same sex relationships, drug addiction, suicide, incest, immigration, and a traditional view of faith versus modern changing views.These things that happen, mostly beyond our control, turn out to be the very things that take us into a richer and deeper second half of life and into a greater discovery of who we are and why we are here. Through the window of the lives of the Gilmore family, and the things they face, A Time for Everything, helps us look at life, actual life, and make sense of it all. This is a book about life. As he tells the stories of what happened to Paul, Annabelle, Max, Winston and Jono, we are taken into the ups and downs, the joys and the heartbreak, of what can happen to people in the events that make up their journey. We can feel the depth and reality of what each of them was going through.

277 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 15, 2021

About the author

Cecil John Rhodes, Privy Councilor to Queen Victoria, was a co-founder of the British South Africa Company and of De Beers Consolidated Mines, which was at the time the sole owner of all diamond mining operations in South Africa. He soon became the seventh Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, and a controversial colonialist, imperialist, Freemason, Anglo-supremacist, and supporter of the policies that developed into the apartheid system, while ultimately aiming for "the extension of British rule throughout the world".

The territory of Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe and Zambia) was named for him, and his last will established the prestigious and controversial Rhodes Scholarship, which was originally open only to white men from then-current and former British colonies (including the USA, which he considered to be "an integral part of the British Empire") and Germany. His grave site is part of Matobo National Park in Zimbabwe, which the governor of Bulawayo called an "insult to the African ancestors" despite its draw as a tourist attraction and historic monument.