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These Precious Days: Essays

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I wonder if we could just pretend to move,” she asked her husband: “I could have said: ‘I wonder if we could just pretend to die? I was so immersed in this book, I read it well into the evening, until it got too dark for me to able to see. Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer . Had I known she had a husband, might I have assumed that she was taken care of and so not followed the story as closely? These Precious Days is no exception and the best of those I’ve read in 2021 — All of the essays in this collection are at least good, almost all great.

They arrive daily in padded mailers—novels, memoirs, essays, histories—things I never requested and in most cases will never get to. It took me a few weeks to figure this out but soon I could track it, the way her voice got quieter, the way she was less likely to look me in the eye. She had a son and a daughter-in-law with two children who lived south of her and a daughter and son-in-law who had recently moved north.The Worthless Servant is a very moving story about Father Charlie Strobel and the lessons the author has learned from him. You may be surprised to hear my favorite issues center not on her writing experience but on complex family relationships, as she does in "The Nightstand" and "Two More Things I Want to Say About My Father. The problem wasn’t how the trip would be organized, but what it meant—pandemic, cancer, ninety-four. Kundalini is nothing if not an exercise in breath, and as it turned out, breath was what Sooki was craving.

Sweetest Ann, I am traveling today—just for the day—up to Stanford for a second opinion, with the magician’s elephant in my carry-on bag. I had to turn myself away from the movie of what I thought was happening, the movie I had made for myself, so that I could see her. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. My official badge-carrying title at the New York City Department of Health’s Bureau of Animal Affairs was ‘public-health sanitarian.The producer of the audiobook sent me an article about Sooki from a 1978 issue of New York magazine. The other partners in his clinic asked him to stay home and practice telemedicine until there was a better sense of how the pandemic would be resolved. I also have a hard cover copy of the book and love Sooki's stunning paintings on the glossy front and back cover.

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