ILLUMINATION Book Chapters Extravaganza 3
We have three very different chapters on life learning, teaching, and a memoir you won’t want to put down.
Welcome book lovers! This time we have some titles that captured my attention. Initially, I made a list. But when I reached the point of sitting down to write this; I discovered an amazing video. My pal, Alison Tennent aka The Garrulous Glaswegian created a video introduction for Ulf Wolf’s book. The first author on my list. Spooky.
After being sidetracked by Alison’s sublime Book Chapter author videos, you can find them all here, I went in search of The Zen of Calories. I discovered the easiest (?) way to find all the chapters of Ulf Wolf’s book was to go to his profile, type in Zen of Calories which gives you a choice of three, two with the same date.
So I click All of Medium, et voila! I scroll past Part Three, Part Six, Part Four, and finally The Zen of Calories (Part One) Foreword.
I set to reading it. The foreword does its job. I want to know more about this forty-year diet Ulf designed for himself. Helpfully, Ulf included a link to Part Two. Thank you.
Later, I went back to search on the navigation bar, entered Zen and clicked on the first listed April 24 and got Part 3, dated April 23. It included links to his website, Wolfstuff and Amazon for his book, but no links to Parts Two and Four. Sigh.
As a small aside, an abundance of low-priced meat and fish in Scotland — a result of the impossible Government process to export to the EU — means my diet includes sirloin, ribeye, and steak mince thrice weekly and fish or chicken four times! Heaven. I know it’s bad for me!
Now back to Ulf.
I come from a family — that’s to say, a particular gene pool — where no conversation, whether in person or over the phone, rarely makes it beyond the third sentence without touching down and landing squarely upon the holy subject of food.
Rewarded with the link, it would be rude not to read Part 2. So now I have to read Part Three to find out what Ulf eats, but I’m too hungry at this point …
If you add more heat to the system than you lose as a result of work, you increase the internal “energy” which the body now stores for future use, usually as fat. The technical term for this is “gaining weight.”
Moving on, Wry Welwood writes in an engaging and easy-to-understand style. He also uses a splendid diagram and analogy. I particularly enjoyed the Good Witch and Dorothy.
The Good Witch told Dorothy that to find happiness, she didn’t need to travel farther than her own back yard.
As a human being and psychotherapist, the most compelling lessons I have learned have not been in the library at graduate school. They have been in what I have gathered from my life experiences and those of others close to me.
First attracted to Josie Elbiry’s Day 12 titled Malaria is Not as Scary as Crystal Methamphetamine — I mean how can anyone miss that one? — I’d made a note of it. When read back a week later it looked like Malarias Notas.
So I searched for her name and clicked on the first in the list. Scrolled down to the bottom and — Josie you win top prize for including a table of contents for your memoir. Such a relief to find Day 1 within seconds! Thank you. However, I read Day 10 first and it was fine. Mighty fine.
In Lebanon, I am surrounded by people who don’t question that it can rain incense, that saints can perform surgeries in your sleep, that miracles happen.
Then I read Day 1.
Then the one I had come looking for. I bookmarked the table of contents.
Malaria was way less scary than San Francisco, empty roads, broken down cars and apartments full of speed freaks.
Thank you fabulous authors for your outpourings. I learned, and I cried.
Dear readers, I hope you enjoyed these pieces. See you soon.
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