The Boy Who Fell: A Father's Memoir of Love, Community, Healing (and a Fall from a Tree): Volume 1 (Felix Maus) - Tapa blanda

One Saturday in June, a young boy climbed too high in a tall tree. The branch and air were thin, and the boy fell, and nearly died on the hard ground. An inch this way or that, and ours would be different lives. That boy was my son. Together we ended up by slow ambulance in the Trauma Department of the University Hospital; from there we were transferred to live two weeks near death in the Intensive Care Unit. As people and community, we strived to overcome the traumatic brain injury meted out for his temerity, and sometimes we surrendered. I wrote to stay sane, and present. This is that story, as first shared over long hours from the hallway just outside the ICU.

Mark Alan Lilly is best known, to his children at least, as their father. To many others, he is known for his work founding Street Yoga, an internationally recognized non-profit based in Portland, OR. Mark has developed practices, curricula and trainings in frontline mindfulness for social workers, doctors, nurses, teachers of all kinds, and citizens on their own healing journeys. He has taught in the US, Canada and Europe, and is currently studying the relationship between grieving, gratitude and over-coming. Mark lives with his family in Portland, sometimes writes software and serves on the boards of Street Yoga and the Yoga Service Council. He walks and swims a lot, likes plants, and dances as often as he can. More can be found at MarkAlanLilly.com.