- May 13, 2008
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Wa Wa Barbara
We snapped a couple pics of Barbara Walters leaving CNN after being interviewed by Larry King yesterday in Beverly Hills, California. Barbara took some time to sign some copies of her new book Barbara Walters Audition – A Memoir. We wonder how memoirs even make any money – all the juicy good stuff is already out in the press!
Photo by Antony Mercer/BuzzFoto.com
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!