Vital

This review appeared in the November 2008 issue of Valley Business FRONT:

Staring at the Sun:  Overcoming the Terror of Death, Irvin D. Yalom, Jossey-Bass, 2008

Ah, death.  Not a common topic of conversation at cocktail parties.  Yet Irvin Yalom, 75, internationally regarded psychotherapist, asserts that not confronting death--not staring at death as it if were the sun--limits our lives.

Yalom urges us to focus on the here-and-now to experience our full humanity.  He writes, “Staring into the face of death…renders life more poignant, more precious, more vital.”  Applying Yalom’s wisdom, at [almost] 50 I expect my life to end in my beloved Southwest Virginia, but right here, right now, my days feel vitally full of ideas, passion, and precious people.