GRIZZLY PEAR

written snapshots

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi, 2016

How can a first (and last) time author write so beautifully?

A lifetime of thinking.
About life and death.

And doing.
Masters in English Lit.
Then becoming a Doctor, Neurosurgeon.

The book is a powerful, emotional memoir.
A reminder that our days are not guaranteed.
Easy living won’t last forever.

And the dying.
What brutally high cost for living.

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This weekend, Jonathan Tjarks, a 34 year-old basketball reporter, passed away from cancer after writing this beautiful, haunting essay in March.
And Risk Parity Radio posted an episode about dying.

The media gods clearly want me to examine mortality, which has never been a big concern before.
Let’s see where this goes.