{"product_id":"100-poems-finding-a-moment-every-day","title":"100 Poems: Finding a Moment Every Day","description":"In 2005, my personal world fragmented. I needed space to grieve. At the same time, as a primary care internal medicine physician, I had ongoing commitments to my patients that demanded focus. I needed a way to detach myself from all the thought channels to maintain clear thinking. So, I wrote poems, 100 of them, one each day. With each, I found and recorded a unique moment. Later, I could only find 99. Did I write the last poem and lose it? Did I miscount? Or had I achieved the balance I needed to move on? I do know that the 100 days became the foundation for a different life.\n\nI now face ALS. I went back to where I was years ago to reread my 99 poems, and in doing so, reexperienced the darkest days of my life and the moments that helped me to survive. I am reassured that I had recovered then, that my soul had carried on in the most wonderful ways, and that I came to be surrounded by unexpected love and compassion over the decades that followed.\n\nHere are my poetic memories. Some reflect my work as a physician in patient care (with names changed) while others reflect moments previously unnoticed.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0CWB2QPMS\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0CWB2QPMS.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Goodson MD, John D.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43715153297469,"sku":"BVV.B0CWB2QPMS.VG","price":18.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/B0CWB2QPMS-0.jpg?v=1790291733","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/100-poems-finding-a-moment-every-day","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}