How Do I Know What I Know?
I'm listening to RadioLab's podcast called "Oliver Sacks: A Journey from Where to Where" and it has recordings of Oliver Sacks writing. That's right, the act of him writing, where one can hear the scratchings and his thought processes as he puts the words down, as well the conversations and verbal musings as he writes down his words. It breathes even more life into his work, more than he already put there through the words themselves. We get to have a window into the workings of his mind. He died August 30, 2015.
Brain Injury Update, Two Months Later
Okay, here's a blog post update on how I'm recovering since my bike accident! I'm sparing my FB feed from what would be a horribly long status update. Two months ago, April 9th, I was in the ICU after crashing my bike, losing consciousness, and having a tiny bit of bleeding in the brain (final diagnosis: minor traumatic brain injury). And here I am, June 9th, at the computer and heading to the studio this afternoon. I'm almost back to normal! Well, sort of. :)
Crash. Boom. Opera. (Or: My Bike Crash in the Clear Light of Day.)
Thump. Thump. Thump. The sound of a kid doing basketball drills, bouncing the ball in that monotonous way. The picture of the afternoon sunlight on a driveway, the passing of time marked by the mundane. The beat. The beat. The beat.