Summary of Susan Moon's Alive Until You're Dead
Summary of Susan Moon's Alive Until You're Dead

Author: Everest Media,

Publisher: Everest Media LLC

Published: 2022-06-13T22:59:00Z

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13:

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The experience of watching someone you love die is a classic human experience. The sudden realization that they might die is not. #2 My friend Friedel was in the hospital after having a major stroke. I was with her, and I decided to spend the night there in the emergency room. I would do whatever I could for as long as it took. #3 Friedel had the surgery, and it went well. She came out of it smiling, and Dr. P. declared, I’m proud of her! Death receded. But a clot lodged in the new stent, and Friedel had a stroke immediately after returning to her room. #4 The Grim Reaper metaphor is wrong. We think we’re separate from death, when in reality, we are not. Death keeps giving us life, killing old cells to make room for new ones.

Alive Until You're Dead
Alive Until You're Dead

Author: Susan Moon

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1611809630

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Poignant and humorous insights on fully embracing our lives as we age from Susan Moon, beloved Buddhist teacher and author. Aging isn't easy. But it can still be filled with joy—maybe even more joy than we expect. Described by the New York Journal of Books as "a Buddhist Anne Lamott," Zen teacher and writer Susan Moon persuades us that as we notice we are impermanent, we get to come alive in new ways. Joining levity with tenderness, Moon shares stories from her own life on topics including knee replacements, Zoom chats with grandchildren, ongoing companionship with a close friend who is moving deeper into dementia, and a season as a Zen monk in the wilderness. Moon illustrates the strength that can come from within, sometimes unexpectedly, even as our bodies fail. Our radiant aliveness can be discovered and rediscovered any time up to the last moment. Alive Until You're Dead offers a Zen approach to facing our impermanence. Moon's stories explore being present with what is, not turning away from what's difficult, wishing for and working for the wellbeing of others, and being willing not to know what's next. These field notes from an old human being invite us to feel more alive in the final stretch, whatever it holds.

Life as We Knew it
Life as We Knew it

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0152061541

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I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in a year's worth of journal entries, this heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. An extraordinary series debut Susan Beth Pfeffer has written several companion novels to Life As We Knew It, including The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.

The Dead and the Gone
The Dead and the Gone

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2010-01-18

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0547422261

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Best-selling author, Susan Beth Pfeffer, delivers a riveting companion to Life As We Knew It in this enthralling tale that follows seventeen-year-old Alex Morales as he fights to survive in the aftermath of apocalyptic events in New York City. Alex Morales is an average high schooler focused on his after-school job, helping his dad out with building superintendent responsibilities, and getting good grades so he can make it into an Ivy League college. But when the moon alters its gravitational pull and catastrophic events ensue, everything changes. Now, he has to care for his younger sisters, decide whether it’s ethical to rob the dead, and keep the hope alive that their lost parents will return. Bone-chilling and harrowing, Susan Beth Pfeffer investigates what it takes to survive when the odds are stacked against you in this captivating story about sacrifice and humanity.

The Shade of the Moon
The Shade of the Moon

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0547813376

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In this eagerly awaited addition to the dystopian series begun with New York Times best-seller Life As We Knew It, Jon Evans is one of the lucky ones--until he realizes that escaping his safe haven may be the only way to truly survive.

The Hidden Lamp
The Hidden Lamp

Author: Zenshin Florence Caplow

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-10-21

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1614291330

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The Hidden Lamp is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In these pages we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road. Each story is accompanied by a reflection by a contemporary woman teacher--personal responses that help bring the old stories alive for readers today--and concluded by a final meditation for the reader, a question from the editors meant to spark further rumination and inquiry. These are the voices of the women ancestors of every contemporary Buddhist.

This World We Live in
This World We Live in

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0547248040

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The highly anticipated follow-up to Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone

The Slow Moon Climbs
The Slow Moon Climbs

Author: Susan Mattern

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 069121672X

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A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history—and why we should change the ways we think about it Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moon Climbs, reveals just how wrong we have been. From the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of Tokyo, Mattern draws on historical, scientific, and cultural research to show how perceptions of menopause developed from prehistory to today. Introducing new ways of understanding life beyond fertility, Mattern examines the fascinating “Grandmother Hypothesis,” looks at agricultural communities where households relied on postreproductive women for the family’s survival, and explores the emergence of menopause as a medical condition in the Western world. The Slow Moon Climbs casts menopause in the positive light it deserves—as an essential juncture and a key factor in human flourishing.

Ghost Hawk
Ghost Hawk

Author: Susan Cooper

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1442481412

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At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.

Pack Up the Moon
Pack Up the Moon

Author: Kristan Higgins

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0451489497

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They used to joke about it. Like many brilliant scientists, Josh sometimes had trouble remembering things that needed doing in the “real” world—like buying groceries, eating regular meals, and talking to people. But he was happy to have his beloved wife, Lauren, remind him with her “honey do” lists. He just never realized how much he would need one when she was gone. Being a widower is not something Joshua Park ever expected. Given his solitary job, small circle of friends and family, and the social awkwardness he’s always suffered from, Josh has no idea how to negotiate this new, unwanted phase of life. But Lauren had a plan to keep him moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters she leaves him, giving him a task for every month in the year after her death. A plan that leads Joshua with a loving hand on a journey through grief, anger, and denial. It’s a journey that will take Joshua from his first outing as a widower to buy groceries…to an attempt at a dinner party where his lack of experience hosting creates a comic disaster…to finding a new best friend while weeping in the dressing room of a clothing store. As his grief makes room for new friendships and experiences, Joshua learns Lauren’s most valuable lesson: The path to happiness doesn’t follow a straight line. Funny, sometimes heart-wrenching, and always uplifting, this novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins illuminates how life’s greatest joys are often hiding in plain sight.