Perspective

Mama Melodrama posted this link to a lecture given by a brain scientist who suffered a stroke. I found it very interesting considering my religious beliefs and our challenge and goal toward self- mastery as human beings. It also made me think of The Host, a book I am reading right now. For those of us who have had family members who have had strokes it gives you more of a feel of what they might have experienced. She gets a little "cosmic" in parts, but given the fact she has lived through this I figure she deserves creative license to express the experience in whatever way she deems best. Check it out:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/when-a-brain-scientist-suffers-a-stroke/