tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987262365249938109.post4459762166755328199..comments2023-10-29T10:41:34.791-04:00Comments on Bookworm's Dinner with Wisteria Leigh: Sunday Salon..Meeting Barbara Walterswisteriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02620398484256424032noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987262365249938109.post-29477216840814746232008-06-05T17:19:00.000-04:002008-06-05T17:19:00.000-04:00Anonymous, thank you for your wise comments.I will...Anonymous, thank you for your wise comments.<BR/>I will read the book you recommend. I had a stroke at 50 and it left me blind. Fortunately, I have made a near total recovery of my sight. This is a miracle by a higher power according to my doctors. This certainly puts life into perspective. I am glad you have read and think so highly of Dr. Taylor's book, "My Stroke of Insight." Yes, I was a bit older than her, but still considered young for a stroke. Especially, when the nurses and doctors kept looking at my wrist band thinking they had the wrong patient. <BR/>I'm striving for the same bliss, the same inner peace. You know, I really have to say, I don't run like I used to. I do stop to smell my Wisteria, listen to my wind chimes, cancelled cable, and play with my dogs. It just is that easy. Thanks for writing.wisteriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02620398484256424032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987262365249938109.post-51171767918115121252008-06-05T02:48:00.000-04:002008-06-05T02:48:00.000-04:00Barbara Walter's life was influenced greatly by he...Barbara Walter's life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she's written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is ""My Stroke of Insight"" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.<BR/><BR/>What I took away from Dr. Taylor's book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don't have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. ""I want what she's having"", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987262365249938109.post-39180466850798995562008-05-19T22:06:00.000-04:002008-05-19T22:06:00.000-04:00Just wanted to let you know your package has arriv...Just wanted to let you know your package has arrived. YEAH!!! I took pictures and will be posted them to my blog. <BR/><BR/>Thank you - thank you - THANK YOU!!! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987262365249938109.post-62163825269909814622008-05-11T02:48:00.000-04:002008-05-11T02:48:00.000-04:00It was actually more than I expected.As you can se...It was actually more than I expected.<BR/>As you can see I am still awake...my time is 2:46AM. I can't get a color to change and it's bugging me. LOL<BR/>Thanks for visiting planetbooks.<BR/><BR/><I>Wisteria</I>wisteriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02620398484256424032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987262365249938109.post-70262423659788846262008-05-11T02:28:00.000-04:002008-05-11T02:28:00.000-04:00I loved your post!! Thank you for sharing your ad...I loved your post!! Thank you for sharing your adventure with us out here in the bloggesphere. My copy of AUDITION is in the mail and on it's way to me here in Okinawa. I have been watching anything I can find with Barbara Walters interviews on it. What a fantastic opportunity to beable to share a few moments with such an influential and impressive woman.<BR/>-KAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com