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Posted by A.J. Mahari on December 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It is important to realize the fundamental and vital role that books play in our lives. Books are vehicles for education, connection, and entertainment. Books serve many purposes both for those who write them and those who read them. The wisdom, knowledge, experience, history, and imperative information imparted through the reading of books enriches us and connects us as it weaves, within our over-all experience in life, a tapestry of what the journey of humanity entails and encompasses.
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Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Authors of the book, The Body Has A Mind of Its Own, Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee as you to imagine lying on a therapy table as a healer places her hand under the back of your neck. Her touch is gentle, calm, tranquil. She places her other hand lightly onto your left shoulder, then onto your right shoulder. A sensation of tingling warmth ripples through your body. A nagging pain in your lower back begins to drain away. It’s not vanquished, but it fades drastically. You relax under the spell of the healer’s hands.
Filed under Books, Health · Tagged with body and mind, Books, brain healing, Dialectic Magazine, hypochondria, insula, Matthew Blakeslee, Mental Health, Sandra Blakeslee, The Body that has a Mind of Its Own
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The writing of a memoir is a tricky proposition, and not only because the form has been dragged through the mud by its own practitioners in recent years. Philip Roth has a passage in his novel The Counterlife about “the strange bind” in which the family members of a writer find themselves: “Their own material is articulated for them by someone else who, in his voracious, voyeuristic using-up of their lives, gets there first but doesn’t always get it right.” Having written a memoir about my daughter Sally’s manic breakdown in 1996, I’ve put my own family in this bind.
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