Day 4885: Between Two Kingdoms

I’ve just finished the audiobook Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, read by the author Suleika Jaouad.

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I have also lived my life between the two kingdoms of the sick and the well, so I identify with much of what Suleika Jaouad so beautifully describes in her book and in this TED talk:

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While cancer (hers) and a congenital heart condition (mine) are different kingdoms in certain ways, Suleika and I have both have spent much of our lives between the two kingdoms of the sick and the well.

The title Between Two Kingdoms was inspired by this quote from Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor.

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Now that I am between two kingdoms of great books, I’ve just put a hold on Illness as Metaphor.

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Here are the images I captured while listening to Between Two Kingdoms.

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Here and now, I’m between two kingdoms of home/work, land/sea (I’m taking the ferry today), connection/solitude, and blogging/not blogging.

Thanks to all who accompany me as I navigate between many forms of two kingdoms, including YOU!