A few times this week I've been asked to wheel myself from my room to the rehab gym. Though the task is no longer hard, it is difficult to do it without remembering the day nine years ago when other therapists required me to complete the same task…
A. A. Knopf reminds us that Poetry Month is coming with this lovely lyric by Jane Hirshfield [http://aaknopf.tumblr.com/post/113509761963/poetry-month-is-coming-join-us-again-this-april] > Quartz Clock > The ideas of a physicist can be turned into useful objects: a rocket, a quartz clock, a microwave oven for cooking. The…
> There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl…
Got dressed in real clothes today for the first time in more than a week, and did much of the work myself. OT Danielle showed me how to use a grabber to pull shorts and pants up my legs and it went surprisingly well. Tempting me on my bed is…
This is my new sidekick, Hank, in Room 710 at Virginia Hospital Center shortly before I was moved to the Inpatient Rehabilitation Center. I had hoped to show the view out the window there looking west towards Lee Highway, but I couldn't manage a shot—there was a…
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> 'I will be turned into compost when I die': http://t.co/tagnJnkddT pic.twitter.com/Cv9UZtru0L [http://t.co/Cv9UZtru0L] — BBC Future (@BBC_Future) February 25, 2015 [https://twitter.com/BBC_Future/status/570591804803977216] Didn't take much to remind me how far ahead of…
> "I believe in active rest… thinking quietly with books, paper, pens… taking the time to think." http://t.co/q1ESJmINnS via @philosophybites [https://twitter.com/philosophybites] — Tom Chatfield (@TomChatfield) February 25, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TomChatfield/status/570590072430596097] A challenging title at the link: We Need To…