Gratitude
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"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and how to live out the months that [remained] in the richest and deepest way possible"--
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Five stars for being so moving and well-written. Feel a little odd counting it toward my goal of books read because it's really only four short essays that were published after Sacks died. But, a book is a book.
For en fin liten bok, om aldring og død og om et liv vel levd. Selvbiografi fra en velskrivende mann.
Beautiful. These essays are still sifting through my consciousness, so it's difficult to say a lot right now. The avid sense of life throughout these pages is startling; not for what was said or declared, but rather how it made me, a living, healthy twenty something, realise how detached from my own walk I feel at times.
