Learning to Fall The Blessings of an Imperfect Life

Name: Learning to Fall The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
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ISBN: 9780553381580

ISBN-10: 055338158X

ISBN-13: 9780553381580

Edition: N/A

Authors: Philip Simmons

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Now I find myself in late August, with the nights cool and the crickets thick in the fields. Already the first blighted leaves glow scarlet on the red maples. It’s a season of fullness and sweet longings made sweeter now by the fact that I can’t be sure I’ll see this time of the year again.... — from Learning to Fall Philip Simmons was just thirty-five years old in 1993 when he learned that he had ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, and was told he had less than five years to live. As a young husband and father, and at the start of a promising literary career, he suddenly had to learn the art of dying. Nine years later, he has succeeded, against the odds, in learning the art of living. Now, in…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.352



Acknowledgements


Foreword


Learning to Fall


Getting Up in the Morning (And Other Essential Duties)


In Praise of the Imperfect Life


Unfinished Houses


Wild Things


Out of the Cave


Mud Season


Choosing the World


Winter Mind


The Art of Doing Nothing


Returning Home


Living at the Edge