Ouch!

> ...though we sang in our (social media) chains like the sea. https://t.co/RHQ8XDyebH — Tim Carman (@timcarman) April 24, 2015 [https://twitter.com/timcarman/status/591640108064899072] Count me emphatically in the 6.7% who have read poetry in the last 12 months. And it's not just…

Junot Diaz

> "To read a book is to be in the slow zone of the human" Acclaimed writer #JunotDiaz [https://twitter.com/hashtag/JunotDiaz?src=hash] on q: http://t.co/q7YuNGALPN pic.twitter.com/Tvrd6Oxzg6 [http://t.co/Tvrd6Oxzg6] — q (@cbcradioq) April 24, 2015 [https://twitter.com/cbcradioq/…

Sic fluunt...

> We are all stumblers, and the beauty of life is in the stumbling - in trying to become more graceful as the years go by. #theroadtocharacter [https://twitter.com/hashtag/theroadtocharacter?src=hash] — David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) April 15, 2015 [https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/588447956879179776] This should drive me…

Back at the gym

Falling was so simple, but it seems like getting my regular routine re-established is really hard. When I finally made it back to the gym for the first time today, I was amazed at all the choices I had to make and all the details I had forgotten—seat position,…

The way it used to be

> Physiotherapy machines from 1895, from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, a 19th century German encyclopedia. pic.twitter.com/2wgTbl8dlx [http://t.co/2wgTbl8dlx] — ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) April 19, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Libroantiguo/status/589853148518477825] Thank goodness it's not like this any more.…

Stunning Juxtaposition

These two posts appeared side by side in my Twitter stream. > "I have come to think of beauty as a core moral value." —@kristatippett [https://twitter.com/kristatippett] — On Being (@Beingtweets) April 17, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Beingtweets/status/589062954965979136] > “Nourish yourself with grand and austere…

Phase III

I surprised myself yesterday when I went to outpatient rehab to start the third stage of my recovery. In OT I learned some new conditioning exercises for my arm, changed my splinting schedule (more pronation; less wrist extension), and learned I'll be getting a new splint fabricated for…