Last night there was a lot going on in TV land. So far I have posted the following:
David Archuleta, David Cook, and Syesha Mercado on Idol
Switchfoot’s performance on the Tonight Show
Death Cab for Cutie on Letterman
Evangeline Lilly on Letterman
Natasha Bedingfield on Chelsea Lately
Steve Carell on Conan
Today Newbie Videos
Barbara Walters on Ellen
Carly Simon on Ellen
New Bachelor Matt Grant and Fiance Shane Lamas (I love his accent!)
More as they become available……..
Barbara Walter’s life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she’s written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly – I actually liked it even more. The memoir is “”My Stroke of Insight”" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke – where language and thinking occur – but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!