Sociology Professor SUNY @newpaltz; alum of @earlham1847 & @stonybrooku. Co-author TEACHING WITH COMPASSION: https://t.co/bWDJbpMNYb
Nov 15, 2018 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
What Do I Want to Do Before I Die?
Microburst Twitter Essay #7?
This is my last microburst Twitter essay and last Twitter posts. And most personal. I hope you enjoy them.
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What do you want to do before you die?
I’m sure someone has asked you that question before, right? It’s a fun, frivolous question that allows you to imagine all the wonderful possibilities that await you.
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Nov 7, 2018 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
THE LANGUAGE OF GRIEF REVISITED
Mircroburst Essay #6?
One week ago, I said in a thread we lack the language to talk about #dying, #death, & #grief, and that we also lack the #emotions. I said we might need hybrid emotions such as grief-anger; grief-ambiguity; grief-humor.
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Here is the link to the thread if you want to get yourself up to speed but it’s really not necessary. I think you can jump in from here.
Beautiful
(A microburst Twitter essay--to be finished before I'm done with my cough drop)
I just had an epiphany: #beautiful has become my new favorite word. That may seem strange given my circumstances. In June 2017 I was diagnosed with incurable stage IV #lungcancer.
I naively thought that maybe my lifetime of being a health and fitness junkie would insulate me from such a medical fate. Wrong. And So here I am, fifty-one years old and not sure how much time I have left on earth. I know I could, or maybe should, feel angry, cheated, jaded.
