My daughter has just gone in for her second jab so I'm waiting for her to come out. We don't know how long they might want her to wait to see if there is a reaction but it could be up to an hour.
We're back and all looks good. She had temperature and blood pressure checks every ten minutes and they were happy she wasn't having another reaction. A big relief!
The whole household is now double-jabbed so it's certainly a weight off. Yes, you can still catch it and get ill but the risks should be greatly reduced.
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After what seemed like an age, I finally finished How to Live by Derek Sivers, he of the /now page fame. He states that it's "meant to be read slowly" but I think I took that to extremes.
When writing about Hell Yeah or No, one of Sivers' previous books, I observed:
"The beauty is in the curation of these individual atomic units of wisdom, each building on the last within their specific scope. It's in finding the connections between seemingly disparate pieces and being able to thread them into a meaningful narrative as though they belonged together from the outset."
I could almost have written those exact same words about HTL.
The book's tag line is "27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion" but, once you get over the initial surprise, it's not really that weird at all. It's deep, really deep. Just like a Buddhist koan, the more you meditate on it the more you uncover within your own mind, the more you understand. If I said any more I would spoil it, but read it and you will get there sooner than you might expect.
The subtitular 27 answers are indeed conflicting, at least to a point, and you might think "why would I want to read something that doesn't give me one true answer?" Oh, but it does, you just have to find your own way there – follow the subtle signposts until you reach that "Aha!" moment.
This time, the atomic units of wisdom do more than build, they become entangled into an amorphous quantum energy that feels ready to explode at any moment. It is a wonder that each answer is presented and argued as eloquently and passionately as the one before – in isolation, each could persuade you that it is, indeed, how to live. But, think on them a moment longer, and you can observe that entanglement in action, tease out some finer threads that would have been far more apparent were the answers provided in a different order. Again, the beauty is in the curation, in the deliberate juxtaposition of "truths".
What should be a relatively simple premise made me think more, and deeper, than I have in a while. What more could you want from a book?
