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Blind Leap (Paperback)
Diane Anderson-Minshall, Jacob Anderson-Minshall
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When Jeff Conant, executive director of San Francisco's Frameline
Film Festival, dives off the Golden Gate Bridge, he's considered
just another statistic - until an independent filmmaker's camera on
the bridge reveals that Jeff's death was neither accident nor
suicide.
There are moments in life when we are knocked off our usual
balance, our normalcy, and from that vantage point we can view life
in general, and our own lives in particular, at a different level.
This is a simple story about one person's decision to draw out the
best from a difficult experience and to use a dramatic break in the
regular routine of life as a learning experience about elevating
one's life. The story is based upon a surgical experience and a
thinker's response to it. The approach also would apply to other
experiences like losses of jobs, deaths of loved ones, burning down
of houses, spousal affairs, children's serious illnesses, economic
setbacks and any other fracture of the usual activities of life. If
the opportunity to elevate your life through creative response to
trauma comes to you, the reader, you might respond through
different creative endeavors, by painting, perhaps, or composing,
or dancing, or building things, or working, or gardening. The
message, however, is still the same: step into the experience, be
assured that there is meaning in it for you, ask what you can learn
from it, and know that your life will be deepened by both the
experience and your response to it. This is a book about responding
to unexpected, unusual, and traumatic experiences in life. Another
personal story with deep philosophical insight from Dr. Diane
Harvey, the author of DOCTOR, PATIENT, OBJECT, THING: A Story about
a Surgeon and a Teacher.
"The surgeon bounded into my life uninvited. He was thirty-nine,
talented, charming, and a self-proclaimed yuppie. I was sixty-two,
a successful academic, popular with my students, and a
self-proclaimed teacher. We had little in common, my surgeon and I,
except a vulvectomy: a surgery that he would perform and that I
would undergo. The vulvectomy was well done, the relationship was
not. This is the story of that relationship." Professor Diane
Harvey weaves an engaging story about the relationship between a
charismatic, confident, competent young surgeon in his late
thirties and a popular, award-winning senior professor of
philosophy. At first, the young man is her surgeon. As the story
enfolds, she becomes his teacher. The purpose of the story is to
share the sensitive surgical journey of a patient with others,
especially those who are undergoing or have undergone personal
female surgeries such as hysterectomies, mastectomies, and
vulvectomies, and to engage the reader in a discussion about the
effect on the patient of "assembly-line surgery" in which the
patient is treated by the surgeon as an object. While the emphasis
is on personal female surgeries, any reader, male or female, who
has undergone or is facing a surgery for life-threatening
conditions, will be interested in the relationship between the
surgeon and the patient. Certainly, however, this book is a
"must-give" to your mother, sister, adult daughter, wife, lover, or
partner and to any friend traveling the surgical journey.
General chapters cover management, housing, feeding, breeding
including parent rearing and artificial incubation, handrearing.
Genetics and mutations are supported by images of each mutation.
This book is a must for both pet and breeding enthusiasts. Chapter
on health and diseases is written by an avian veterinarian.
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