Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously' How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion' The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
Learn to communicate with your dog—using their language “Good reading for dog lovers and an immensely useful manual for dog owners.”—The Washington Post An Applied Animal Behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years’ experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell reveals a revolutionary new perspective on our relationship with dogs—sharing insights on how “man’s best friend” might interpret our behavior, as well as essential advice on how to interact with our four-legged friends in ways that bring out the best in them. After all, humans and dogs are two entirely different species, each shaped by its individual evolutionary heritage. Quite simply, humans are primates and dogs are canids (as are wolves, coyotes, and foxes). Since we each speak a different native tongue, a lot gets lost in the translation. This marvelous guide demonstrates how even the slightest changes in our voices and in the ways we stand can help dogs understand what we want. Inside you will discover: • How you can get your dog to come when called by acting less like a primate and more like a dog • Why the advice to “get dominance” over your dog can cause problems • Why “rough and tumble primate play” can lead to trouble—and how to play with your dog in ways that are fun and keep him out of mischief • How dogs and humans share personality types—and why most dogs want to live with benevolent leaders rather than “alpha wanna-bes!” Fascinating, insightful, and compelling, The Other End of the Leash is a book that strives to help you connect with your dog in a completely new way—so as to enrich that most rewarding of relationships.
Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.
How would you react if you went to sleep one night, a young dentist beginning to build a successful practice to support your wife and two kids, and woke up fuzzily seven months later to find that you were a different person. You had a cast on your important right hand, not because it was broken, but because your brain wouldnt or couldnt send the signals to relax the muscles, and your hand tried to curl into a fist. Your right foot was pretty weak because your Achilles tendon had been cut and stretched, so that your foot wouldnt curl up like your hand. You had lost your sense of balance, and your mind wouldnt allow you to speak without repeating your words so fast that your tongue couldnt keep up, and people could no longer understand you without straining. You had difficulty making decisions, and you couldnt remember any decisions that you made. To make things worse, you saw two or three, or sometimes more images, and your brain wouldnt integrate them into one. Brad Fralick woke up in this way in 1994. His practice had been sold, and his life was forever changed. This book is a record of his remarkable journey toward thinking clearly again. It might be called a book of short essays. It is actually a chronology of his thoughts. As Brad recovered, he initially had to write his thoughts down, because his short term memory was so bad that he couldnt sustain a thought train, and he couldnt communicate verbally. He couldnt straighten his right hand, and couldnt control his left hand well enough to write with pen or pencil, so he began to learn to type on a keyboard with one finger of his left hand. We encouraged him to write everything that went through his head, and he initially found it easier to write about a fictional character going through his own life experiences. Later, he began writing his views of politics, religion, and just about any aspect of life. Writing was important to Brads recovery, but computer games have been even more instrumental. Contemporary research suggests that mental activities with many arbitrary, simple rules may help recovery of cognitive function. Have you ever heard of a more enlightened description of computer games? Hoping that a game or two would help put other broken brains back together, we set up a web site to present comments on games as a sort of mental gymnasium, or biofeedback treatment thats fun. Brad wrote a few game reviews, and then began to write about a fictional character Dr. Sgt. Milko, a dentist who was an enlisted man in the Army. As the fictional stories were written, Brad published them on this web site in chronological order, with most recent stories at the top of his table of contents. These stories are collected in the second portion of this book "THE MILKO STORIES". They are published pretty much in reverse chronological order, newest stories first. Some make you laugh, some make you cry, and some just make you think. They each reveal a new aspect of the recovery of his brain. Surprisingly, many of the stories are of adventures that actually took place years ago as Brad was growing up. Brads long term memory was not impaired by his brain injury. Neither was his imagination. Brad eventually began to publish his thoughts about contemporary life as a Traumatic Brain Injury survivor. He added a new section to his web site to publish these comments. The subject of his attention ranges from the wild fires that almost burned the Los Alamos national laboratory to his relationship with his son...
NOTES: A) If Option for “New” & “Used” Paperbacks exist, order "New" to assure getting the latest“4th/Final Edition –“The Final Cut”” of Book; Rev. Date 05/15/2019. B) “Intended Relaxation media”, YouTube link in Book’s section 5.3.1 is no longer available... Please refer to following Blog Post providing Options to either use alternate media, or to obtain the Intended media, Highly Recommended to avoid confusion...: https://riseandshineanxietydepression.net/2020/08/23 4th/Final Edition -- "The Final Cut": Add'l Layer of Rationale/Definition provided Elaborating & Tying Key Pieces of Book together, supporting Why So Effective (!) & Why this is All We Can Do as humans... Book's Effectiveness has not changed since Original, when reading/working Book’s Tools/Skills. Reading Book will Educate the Average Individual who struggles some with negativity/Stresses, on How Best to Optimize their Game plan in Life. When Sufferers Read and Work this TRUE Self-Help Book, this is when It's True Power is Felt/Understood! This for those who Suffer with not only Anxiety/Depression, but for All negative based thinking Issues; PTSD, OCD, ADD, ADHD, Addiction Recovery, BPD, Bipolar 2 (at least)... Since this TRUE Self-Help Book provides all we can do as humans, to take care of Our Well-Being, the NATURAL Way with Permanent results, this applies to most everyone... It's All about a Tremendous Education from a X-Sufferer as I am now, along w/Professionals She Knew and Trusted. Then, lots of Growth/Experience (40 + years), along with additional down times in Life. Key Additions were added which were Huge for me, and Certainly would be Important for any Sufferer... I was a Significant Sufferer with A&D & OCD, for just about 25 years; A Worse Caser! I Do Not Want To See Anyone Go Thru This or Similar, & This Has Been My #1 Incentive In Writing This Book, after starting to write this to Help, if not Save Son after I Saved myself. I Certainly Understand what it is like when Anxiety and Depression goes unchecked; (4) times in a psych wards...attempted pulling the plug twice... We All have to do the Work Ourselves in Life Unquestionably! And without Change, there is no change in the way we Think & Operate which is Key! After So Many Years of Education/Growth/Experience (40 years now actually), Can't Imagine in a TRUE Self-Help/Self-Select Book, there Could Be Anything Better! This Book's True Power & Importance, based on Tying these Key Pieces together: 1.) Optimum/Proven, Detailed Positivity Tools/Skills Process, w/Full Instruction set teaches us How Best To Change Our negative thoughts and mindset to Positive Thoughts and Mindset. This is the Bottom Line Key to Rid Ourselves from negativity which is root cause of most of Our Issues in Life (i.e. those individual neg. thoughts/& sources of, Self-Personalizing Process). Process allows us to Develop & Build-Up Our Inner Strength & Positivity Threshold. 2.) Allowing Our Faith to Grow... (ref. sect. 4). This the Basis of Our Positivity, & Helps Us through Recovery, Helps Amend or Establish that Strong Foundation, Helps Dealing with Life's Issues which push past our Positivity Threshold, especially when things stack up Outside Our Control! In Sum this Solidifies Everything & Our Peace Of Mind! & YES, Need Our #1 Dependence! Section 4 also addresses, what is going wrong in Our Society and People these days complicating Our Lives with so many things unimportant vs. Things of Great Importance, including losing sight of the “Big Picture”... besides Issues of Greed, overuse of social media, our texting ways vs. using the vocal chords we were born with... Of Course Exercise, Eating Well, and Power in laughter/:)s also addressed. Go to Blog post : riseandshineanxietydepression.net/2020/03/10 elaborating on Book's Substance/Effectiveness per what Known & have witnessed w/Book in Hand. Besides, Free as needed Coaching/Cheerleading provided as ID'd per post's last paragraph... Read On for You and Your Loved Ones! Author Ron
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