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...
Urgent and Exciting!
The post could also be called Connecting the Dots, or What Can We Do? In it I want to share my enthusiasm, concern, excitement, for what’s happening, as well as some awesome and inspiring links relating to these pressing issues. I also urge you to engage with these movements in any ways...
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...
Emergency
There are so many ways to describe the flow of feelings and events around my stroke, (and those on the kayak trip :-)), and each one results in a different perspective, different pictures, different impressions… With my new mode of operating, which is more to simply let things arise and to plan and organize less,...
