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From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes “a book about vision loss that becomes testimony to human courage, a moving memoir that offers perspective, comfort, and hope” (Booklist, starred review).One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye—forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. He could lose his sight altogether. In this “moving and inspiring” (The Washington Post) memoir, Bruni beautifully recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions. The result is a poignant, probing, and ultimately “a positive message, a powerful reminder that with great vulnerability also comes great reward” (Oprah Winfrey). Bruni’s world blurred in one sense, as he experienced his first real inklings that the day isn’t forever and that light inexorably fades, but sharpened in another. Confronting unexpected hardship, he felt more blessed than ever before. The Beauty of Dusk is “a wonderful book. Honest. Poetic. Uplifting.” (Lesley Stahl).

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Author : Frank Bruni
★★★★☆ 4.5 from 5 stars (946 Reviews)
Langue : English
ISBN-10 : 1982108584
File size: 11 MB

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I had an ischemic stroke with permanent, mild effects, and not my eyesight, which makes me unfairly think he whines too much. I always read his thoughtful opinion pieces with interest.He notes that stroke is similar to the effects of aging, so it is useful for that. The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found eBook Online gratuit The man can write. If you love the written word, as I do, that alone is worth the trouble to take in his prose. It’s witty. It’s profound. It’s succinct. And you never need to open a dictionary. It doesn’t get much better.Bruni lost the sight in one of his eyes, or at least all clarity of sight, to a non-arteritic anterior optic neuropathy, which, to his credit, he only writes out once. Recovery was unlikely and there was always the chance that the same thing would eventually besiege his other eye and he would be essentially blind. He was fifty-two.There are two major themes to the book, but a lot of context around each. The first is that with catastrophe can come perspective, but he goes out of his way to note that it’s not a zero-sum exchange. This is not a book about silver linings. It is more a book about our ability to grow as people if we have the tolerance to do so. “Someone somewhere has probably floated the proposition that for every loss there’s a commensurate gain, but that’s not what I’m peddling here.”The second theme is the central core of Buddhist belief and what every therapist, without exception, will tell you – life is suffering. Sometimes, however, it takes a little suffering to see it around us, a sad reality that can be a further catalyst to more of that personal growth. He suggests we all wear sandwich boards detailing our suffering to spare us the time and awkwardness of discovery. A good idea conceptually, I think, if not quite practical on a crowded urban sidewalk.There are digressions. About his partner. About a dog. About the many people he has met in his work and the places he has been. He ultimately wraps them all up in a bow, however, and you ultimately realize that digression is his ultimate theme, although even he may not agree with that assessment.In 1962, at the age of eight, with pediatrics in its infancy, my parents were told that the frequent seizures I was experiencing would likely be permanent and that they should plan accordingly. I spent a year in isolation because although there was nothing wrong with my thinking our public schools were not so enlightened in those days as to allow me to attend. (Seizures would be too disruptive.) And when I was allowed out of bed I was forced to wear protective headgear to protect my head in case it came into contact with the corner of the coffee table. (Childproofing a home wasn’t an industry yet.)Not long after the dire diagnosis was delivered, however, the doctors ran what was to be a strictly diagnostic test involving draining all of the fluid from around the brain and replacing it with gas, without anesthesia, a procedure which modern neurologists who have looked at my file routinely refer to as barbaric, but I haven’t had a seizure in the sixty years hence. My existence at the time, in fact, prepared me well for life during the pandemic when I often found myself wondering why people were so distraught over the solitude of the lockdown. (I didn’t have Netflix in 1962.)My point is that Bruni gave voice not only to his own affliction, but to the affliction all of us have suffered in one form or another. Only he did it with the skills he has honed over a long and distinguished career, skills that few of us could have brought to the task.The result is insightful, delightful, and inspiring. I highly recommend it. PDF The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found read online Far beyond what I expected. Bruni’s writing is as wonderful as ever, and he extends his reach and vision to so many expressions of life and living. Resonated for me in many, rich ways. Very highly recommend. ePUB The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found scarica online gratuitamente This is a book I will savor and re-read for the rest of my life.If you are planning on getting older, this book will help you navigate before you get to the point where you can’t do everything that you did before. The author’s wisdom, as well as that of his interviewees, is astounding.I am grateful that writers like Frank Bruni exist. (PDF) Download The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found Bruni, F. (2022). The Beauty of dusk: On vision lost and found. Avid Reader Press.One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with blurred vision. He later discovers that during the night, a rare stroke had ravaged one of his optic nerves, leaving him functionally blind in that eye. In The Beauty of Dusk, Bruni invites us into his inner journey as he grapples with the fact of being blind in one eye and as he encounters friends and acquaintances who similarly negotiated some sort of physical trauma. The byline - vision lost and found - forecasts how Bruni realized the power of one's perspective in illuminating what we see. Some quotes:"I went to bed seeing the world one way. I woke up seeing it another." “Eyes are a locus of power, but even more so of vulnerability.” “Humor. It takes the punch and sting out of what's happening, turning scary to silly.” “You have to become patient. And you have to become resilient.” “When God gives you lemons, try as best possible, to summon an intellectual curiosity about the bitter bequest and, to find some fascination in the science and mystery of what you're going through.” “What I really did. . . is learn how to sift through a mix of constructive and destructive impulses inside me, of buoyant resolve and leaden sorrow, and to accept that there was no predicting or controlling which took precedence at a given moment. But the severity of the sorrow could be minimized. The frequency too. . . People who flourish make a decision to flourish. They point themselves towards joy.”“As our physical muscles grow weaker, our emotional muscles grow stronger, and we're better at seeing the comedy in the tragedy, the advance in the setback, the good in the bad. We become grand masters at perspective, which is the tweak of all tweaks, the trick of all tricks, the cornerstone of all coping.”