After reading Murakami’s book, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, I decided to create a simple journal of the same name. I fill it out after each run with date, time, & distance. Then I add in an anecdote or two about the run – how I felt, what I saw, what made the run significant or not. It’s a nice way to catalogue my time running.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is a must read for anyone who considers such things as end-of-life care, elder-care, and helping or working with people at that stage in life. We have prolonged life and yet we still struggle with how to discuss death openly and clearly. Even moreso we struggle with how to help elderly people make decisions that honor their autonomy and that honor their sense of what gives their life meaning at that point in life. Meaning and autonomy are the two takeaways that we must honor for people as they age. This is a great read. View all my reviews
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Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish by Chris Dombrowski My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a GREAT book – even if one is not into fly fishing or fishing at all. There’s a depth to the stories that are shared – an arc, if you will. I learned more about the Bahamas, bone-fish and the history of the place, the people who live there and make their livelihood guiding. In addition, Chris’s writing is dense – I often would find myself needing to take a break from reading to consider what it was he was getting at. There was beauty in the writing, as well. Chris plays a little geographic travel with this as he…
I receive an email newsletter from Jack Cheng, an author. It comes to me once a week on Sunday evenings and I find it a nice way to turn the page towards the new week ahead. In yesterday’s note, he wrote the following regarding travel, which took me back to my days of travel. I found what he wrote hit home on many levels, too. It was the last sentence that stuck, however: A few weeks ago I was telling A., who hasn’t traveled much, about this trip, and he said that the thought of being in a foreign country without knowing the local language gives him anxiety an order of magnitude higher than anything else. It was something about the combination of being able to navigate…
Who reasons death anymore than they can weigh the earth or the heart of beauty? Jim Harrison – Legends Of The Fall