18-08-2011, 03:39 AM
By the way, Garry, the reading of all those books and my assembly process for excerpting, editing, and digitizing all of the material pre-dated my medical events. It generated a high degree of curiosity that continued through and after those events. Of course other people have suffered similar personal and medical crises; the book "Deep Survival" talks about wilderness and other similar encounters with the possibility of death; the neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's book and TED video chronicle her stroke (different nature medically than mine but fascinating nonetheless), and of course there are many others. They keep the issue of winning in competition in their proper perspective.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"