A week ago, I flew from New Zealand to Australia.  As I wandered around Wellington’s gates, I discovered a book called When Breath Becomes Air. Three hours later and a solid landing, Paul Kalanithi’s raw, gentle truth of a memoir made a home in my heart.

Paul, a Stanford University neurosurgical resident and husband, was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic lung cancer at 36 years old. So much has been shared and written about him and his book since his death. I use this blog entry to say: read this book, get to know this man…you will be reminded of what it is to be human, what it is to live in the present, what it is to be honest. (thank you, Paul)

“The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”  – Paul Kalanithi