In a small town near the city of Boston lives Filomena, a 12-year-old parakeet. In the first book in this series Filomena discovers that we all see the world through a frame of mind, and that observation is a powerful tool to help us understand how others see the world. In the second book in the series, Filomena spends many days in the garden during the summer with a diverse group of friends who enrich her life. They discover together how much friends, working together, can achieve.

In this third book in the series, as the summer winds down, Filomena reflects on the passage of the seasons, and realizes how they punctuate our lives. As she remembers her friend, Winter, she discovers that as we spend time with others we become a part of who they are, and they become a part of who we are.

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University. When he is not researching and writing about how to educate children and youth in the 21st century, or teaching and advising his graduate students, he writes The Adventures of Filomena, a series of books to encourage intergenerational conversations about living well, of which this book is the third.