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    Wherever I Am, I'm Fine: Letters About Living While Dying
    Wherever I Am, I'm Fine: Letters About Living While Dying
    Wherever I Am, I'm Fine: Letters About Living While Dying
    Audiobook6 hours

    Wherever I Am, I'm Fine: Letters About Living While Dying

    Written by Catherine Royce

    Narrated by Becket Royce and Amanda Royce-Hale

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    "Dear Ones,...." So begins each of an extraordinary collection of letters written to friends and family by Catherine Royce as she contemplated how she would live out her life as it was slowly taken from her by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease). Writing with great humor, candor, and insight, Catherine stares, unblinking, into the glare of her own mortality. She asks tough questions about living, dying, and her personal relationship with God, and makes a conscious choice both to live her life as fully as possible every day, and to embrace her death as the ultimate gift and adventure.

    The letters begin as a journal of her trip to India for Ayurvedic treatment after her diagnosis of ALS at the age of 54, and continue after her return to her home in Dorchester, Massachusetts. They chronicle her deep exploration of her personal spiritual beliefs, and how living her life with her death clearly before her both challenged and ultimately bolstered those beliefs. Her meditations in the deep questions of grace, her search for God in herself, and the meaning of life and death play out against the backdrop of her day to day challenges and triumphs.

    In her essay for the NPR series, "This I believe," Catherine gave voice to her belief that, no matter what life hands her, she always has a choice. "Every day I choose not only how I will live, but if I will live. I can choose to see ALS as nothing more than a death sentence or I can choose to see it as an invitation – an opportunity to learn who I truly am." That she truly lived these words is evident on every page of her letters to her "Dear Ones." In them she inspires us to view life's challenges as opportunities to strengthen our own understanding and spiritual connectedness.

    Published by The Royce Sisters. Distributed by Big Happy Family LLC.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateMar 30, 2011
    ISBN9780615478678
    Wherever I Am, I'm Fine: Letters About Living While Dying

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