TY - BOOK AU - Taylor, Mark C. AU - {Taylor} TI - Field Notes from Elsewhere: : Reflections on Dying and Living SN - 9780231147804 U1 - 155.9 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Columbia KW - Death to life KW - Non Fiction N1 - Day / Night -- Beginning / Origin -- Elsewhere / Silence -- Reflections / Reticence -- Premonitions / Postcards -- Home / Afterlife -- Stealth / Sacrifice -- Killing / Elemental -- Abandonment / Mortality -- Displacement / Place -- Creativity / Thinking -- E/Mergence / Emptiness -- Walls / Garden -- Painting / Play -- Perhaps / Numbers -- Pleasure / Money -- Vocation / Teaching -- Last / Burial -- Solitude / Loneliness -- Things / Ghosts -- Levity / Grief -- Humor / Monsters -- Faction / Dishonesty -- Inheritance / Withholding -- Letting Go / Dinnertime -- Compassion / Suffering -- Clouds / Waiting -- Freedom / Terror -- Forgiveness / Cruelty -- Daughters / Obsession -- Failure / Success -- Balance / Simplicity -- Face / Aging -- Stigma / Autoimmunity -- Patience / Chronicity -Technology / Addiction -- Pain / Intimacy -- Blindness / Aura -- Cancer / Surviving -- Trust / Bitterness -- Hands / Will -- Secrets / Tripping -- Strangers / Tips -- Sharing / Fatigue -- Idleness / Guilt -- Driving / Accident -- Imperfection / Vulnerability -- Friendship / Doubt -- Love / Fidelity -- Hope / Despair -- Happiness / Melancholy -- Ordinary / Extraordinary N2 - "Field notes from elsewhere is Taylor's unforgettable, inverted journey from death to life. Each of his memoir's fifty-two chapters and accompanying photographs recounts a morning-to evening experience with sickness and convalescence, mingling humor and hope with a deep exploration of human frailty and, conversely, resilience. When we confront the end of life, Taylor explains, the axis of the lived world shifts, and everything must be reevaluated ..."--Jacket ER -