Yesterday...
Albert and I have taken to bed in the middle of the day with the book "When Breath becomes Air"; the story of the neurosurgeon who discovers he has stage four lung cancer at the age of 36. His op ed after his diagnosis (New York times "How long have I got left? By Paul Kalanithi) lead to fans and followers and a book; the very book I am reading this rainy afternoon.
It's moving and interesting. Also he is very cute and I developed a serious crush on him. He had everything a girl could want : raging, incurable brilliance (MD and Ph.D. In science AND a degree in English literature from Cambridge); moody brown eyes, and a hopeless condition. Swoon.
He dies before finishing it, but it's worth reading- especially a section where he artfuly explains why he walked back from atheism. (Yes yes before he got cancer..)
Going to Boston on Thursday to meet the Wehlens and - drum roll: Thomas Adams Brigham in his triumphant return to the hallowed halls of "The Academy". (A place he left in 1981). Keep in mind the import of this- he was, after all the first Brigham since 1920 to leave of his own accord.
Fertile Blogging is all I'm sayin.
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