Goldberg Natalie
Goldberg Natalie - Let The Whole Thundering World Come Home A Memoir - Paperback
Goldberg Natalie - Let The Whole Thundering World Come Home A Memoir - Paperback
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Description: A powerful memoir from Natalie Goldberg the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home begins at the grave of Katagiri Roshi Natalie's Zen teacher in Japan. Twenty years after Katagiri's death and Natalie's return to New Mexico she is permanently settled in Santa Fe with her partner Yukwan. Except that as Buddhism teaches us nothing is permanent. Natalie learns that she has CLL a potentially fatal form of blood cancer. For two years Natalie dances with her cancer visiting doctor after doctor attempting treatment after treatment. Nothing helps; in fact one of the treatments only feeds the cancer and encourages its growth. Then Natalie's partner Yukwan discovers that she too has cancer breast cancer as well as an off - the - charts oncotype score that requires her to have surgery immediately. The cancer twins as Natalie calls herself and Yukwan now must each navigate her own illness carve out her own cancer territory. Each can provide only limited emotional and physical energy for the other. And somehow they both need to find a way to stay together to stay in love and to heal. As the title expresses Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home is so much more than a cancer memoir. Through a direct and grounded narrative Natalie illuminates a path through illness: that we need to be in love with the lives we have to embrace the dark and the light in our lives. For Natalie writing and painting represent the light and her cancer takes her deeper into her art practices. Balanced with a Zen practice that helps to her face death this book is a moving meditation on living life in full bloom.
Title: Let The Whole Thundering World Come Home A Memoir
Author(s): Goldberg Natalie
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
Barcode: 9781611805673
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 6/5/2018
Category: Diaries, Letters & Journals
Description: A powerful memoir from Natalie Goldberg the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home begins at the grave of Katagiri Roshi Natalie's Zen teacher in Japan. Twenty years after Katagiri's death and Natalie's return to New Mexico she is permanently settled in Santa Fe with her partner Yukwan. Except that as Buddhism teaches us nothing is permanent. Natalie learns that she has CLL a potentially fatal form of blood cancer. For two years Natalie dances with her cancer visiting doctor after doctor attempting treatment after treatment. Nothing helps; in fact one of the treatments only feeds the cancer and encourages its growth. Then Natalie's partner Yukwan discovers that she too has cancer breast cancer as well as an off - the - charts oncotype score that requires her to have surgery immediately. The cancer twins as Natalie calls herself and Yukwan now must each navigate her own illness carve out her own cancer territory. Each can provide only limited emotional and physical energy for the other. And somehow they both need to find a way to stay together to stay in love and to heal. As the title expresses Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home is so much more than a cancer memoir. Through a direct and grounded narrative Natalie illuminates a path through illness: that we need to be in love with the lives we have to embrace the dark and the light in our lives. For Natalie writing and painting represent the light and her cancer takes her deeper into her art practices. Balanced with a Zen practice that helps to her face death this book is a moving meditation on living life in full bloom.
Title: Let The Whole Thundering World Come Home A Memoir
Author(s): Goldberg Natalie
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
Barcode: 9781611805673
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 6/5/2018
Category: Diaries, Letters & Journals
