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I’m here and healing. The newly- sanded floors allow the\u00a0 easiest-possible paces and I need to walk a lot.\u00a0 I’m reading while healing, but\u00a0 Roseledge Books Regular ME suggests a reading about healing\u00a0 in Victoria Sweet’s God’s Hotel,<\/strong> which I have ordered immediately, and to which I would add as a neighbor about-healing read, T. R. Reid’s The Healing of America<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jerome Groopma’s<\/strong> How Doctor’s Think<\/strong> might be good here, too, because healing is a two-way\u00a0 responsibility.\u00a0 The more you understand how a doctor thinks and your body works, the more you know how to describe your body’s cues and thus help avoid a dreadful misdiagnosis.<\/p>\n Then there are books to read while healing.\u00a0 The titles may vary by reader, but page-turners (e.g. David Baldacci’s The Forgotten<\/strong>) probably use the least amount of mind which is what you have to give when you are sickest and need everything you’ve got to heal.\u00a0 Memoirs or journals(e.g. Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies, <\/strong> Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone)<\/strong> are focused with some fact and some fiction which makes them a good intermediate read when you’re better, but not quite on top of things.\u00a0 Then when energy, impatience, taste for coffee and gummi bears return, you head for the careful, involved read.\u00a0 Right now, for me, that is re-reading Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs<\/strong> to find any clues in the text that support her being for a time in or near Tenants Harbor.\u00a0 A friend wants to do a booklet about her time here and he has actual evidence.\u00a0 I am to offer “speculative insights.”\u00a0\u00a0 Oh the fun of entering the local fray among those who favor TH, Martinsville, or Port Clyde!\u00a0 When the booklet exists, Roseledge Books will have it.<\/p>\n Who would sail into any other harbor? Surely not SOJ.<\/p><\/div>\n The native strawberries are in, the (newly invasive) rosa rugosa are blooming, and an orange crane was stepping masts at the public landing.\u00a0 Nights are still cool, but the heat in my spa-recliner takes up any slack.\u00a0 I am being one with nature and planting an already-big tree to shade the porch from mid-morning to mid-afternoon.\u00a0 Umbrellas are heavy or electric and always iffy in the wind.\u00a0 Does this mean I am green or sustainable?\u00a0 Come and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “It don’t get no better than this,” one ten-year-old said to another in Minneapolis some years ago. \u00a0 Surely they meant to include summer in Tenants Harbor, had they but known. Even with rain and more rain, the flowers, herbs, … Continue reading <\/a>