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Tag Archives: death
Live Longer Now
It’s funny how your mind takes vast jumps, transcending time and space, hurling you into the past or thrusting you into the future. It’s happening to me now. I remember sitting in my sixth grade class in Florida, fascinated with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lifestyle, Psychology, Reflections, Technology
Tagged Calco, death, immortality, meditation, mindfulness, psychology, Shinzen Young, The Science of Enlightenment, Vector
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Being Mortal
I’ve just finished reading Being Mortal: What Matters in the End by Dr. Atul Gawande. I had read his previous Complications about life as a surgeon several years ago, greatly impressed. Both books have been highly praised, with the present … Continue reading
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Tagged Atul Gawande, Being Mortal, books, death, doctors, Health, medicine, mortality, Tolstoy, writing
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Intimations of Mortality: Keats revisited
I have always been fond of the poet, John Keats. Maybe it’s because he seems to have been down on his luck so early in life and I just happen to be drawn to underdogs. When he was just eight, … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged death, Fanny Brawne, Hampton Heath, Keats, mortality, Poetry, Romantics, Spanish Steps, When Ihave fears that I may cease to be
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