Posts tagged "choices"

Holding It All…

Over the last couple of days I have immersed myself in the NOVA series called The Elegant Universe, and capped it off with a recent episode entitled The Fabric of the Cosmos, all about String Theory and Quantum Mechanics, as intrepreted in Brian Greene’s book by the same name.  Oh m’gosh, do we live in a fantastic universe! I don’t want to...

Highlights and Insights

So magical, yet so very ordinary and earthy.  Eminently practical, matter of fact, and at the same time, absolutely miraculous… that’s the way it was on my kayak trip, and has been as my stroke recovery progressed. Relishing and absorbing the richness of intertidal life while drifting along in a kayak; or lying quietly and...

New Neural Pathways

I have been moved now out of Emergency, and up to the fifth floor, the Neurological Ward. It’s still Saturday, the day of my stroke, I settled in to my bed and to the strict bed rest.  I was allowed to sit up only to eat and to use the bedpan.  (It’s cool the way...

Pivotal Moments

I am pleased to share with you that I will be hosting a book reading through the Vancouver Public Library, Joe Fortes Branch. It is billed as a ‘Meet the Author’ event, yet I rather think of it as a time to come together to reflect on key moments in our lives. I will select...