Feeling Loss and Alive

“I’m not who I was since Parkinson’s,” he said. And sometimes, “I don’t find the first word I’m after. But I’ll take the second word, the third word. I’ll take it because I like new ways of expressing things. It makes the work alive.”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2013/11/11/novelist-reveals-a-twist-in-the-tale/?ref=todayspaper

Losing a Garden

A garden, Mr. Golden said, should be a place “to sit in, think about, look at the sky in, live in. In my case, it’s sort of a psychological exploration of the hidden, the part of myself that never got expressed because I was such a timid, shy little boy. I learned to adapt over the years to living in the world. On sunny days, when the garden is in full growth, it’s quite exuberant and in-your-face. It’s pretty much the opposite of my personality.”In other words, Mr. Golden’s garden is useless, except as an all-encompassing creation that fills his days and reveals his innermost feelings to the world. Someday, Mr. Golden said, “someone will buy this house and cut down everything.” The prospect is abominable and also just fine. “I think most gardens should depart with their owners,” he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/garden/the-good-for-nothing-garden.html?ref=todayspaper  Molly Stuart

OBIT: /Ruth Benerito cotton chemist of permanent press renown

OBIT: Widely available since the mid-1960s,wrinkle-free cotton is considered one of the most significant technological developments of the 20th century. For her role, Dr. Benerito was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/business/ruth-benerito-cotton-chemist-of-permanent-press-renown-dies-at-97.html?ref=todayspaper

Art and Death Class

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OBIT: Herman Wallace held 41 years in solitary dies at 71

“One of the final things that Herman said to us,” his lawyers said in a statement, “was, ‘I am free. I am free.’ ” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/us/herman-wallace-held-41-years-in-solitary-dies-at-71.html?ref=todayspaper

An incredibly powerful story, the “will” to live; and hope:

An incredibly powerful story, the “will” to live; and hope: http://www.radiolab.org/story/288733-23-weeks-6-days/

Suicide and terminal illness – deBlasio

“It’s kind of an unbelievable, incredibly difficult moment in life,” Mr. de Blasio said in an interview with the radio station WNYC. “We all thought we would be saying goodbye in some more traditional way, and suddenly he was gone.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-addresses-ailing-fathers-suicide-in-70s.html?ref=todayspaper

Book Review: Daughter’s Care of Parents

“She was no longer a trusting and deferential patient,” Ms. Butler writes. “Like me, she no longer saw doctors —perhaps with the exception of her internist, Dr. Fales —as healers or her fiduciaries. They were skilled technicians with their own agendas. But I couldn’t help feeling that something precious —our old faith in a doctor’s calling, perhaps, or in a healing that is more than a financial transaction or a reflexive fixing of broken parts —had been lost.”   http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/health/knocking-on-heavens-door-a-daughters-tale-of-caring-for-her-parents.html?ref=todayspaper&

 

A Medical Student’s thoughts:

A Medical Student’s thoughts: My classmates and I thought we were applauding the gift of an organ and the training of a friend. Instead, we had celebrated a seizure that ended a life and the dissection of a woman we did not know.

It’s eerie to think about that morning, the strangeness of medical students cheering the news of someone’s death. Yet these contradictions happen all the time in our education. Our lecturers say, “This is a great case,” when describing a toddler who died from a rare cancer. Or, “Look at this beautiful pathology,” when holding up the clogged heart of someone’s father. I wonder if other professions share these kinds of perverse excitements. Do human resources trainees hear of “great” instances of sexual harassment? Do law students study “beautiful” murder cases? http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2013/08/14/beautiful-pathologies/?ref=todayspaper&_r=0&amp;

Be CLEAR in your intentions – Wills

Be CLEAR in your intentions: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/nyregion/tentative-deal-in-feud-over-will-of-huguette-clark.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;