Barbara Walters Speaks at Agnes Scott Tonight
Decatur Metro | May 19, 2008
TV news icon, Barbara Walters, will discuss her career and new book “Audition” tonight at Agnes Scott at 7p in Gaines Chapel.
According to the Agnes Scott press release…
“She will have an on-stage conversation with Atlanta’s WSB-TV news anchor Jovita Moore at 7 p.m. in Presser Hall on the campus, 141 E. College Ave. in Decatur. Doors to the auditorium will open at 6 p.m. for first-come, first-seated. There are no reservations accepted. Signed copies of “Audition” will be on sale at the event.”
I read an interesting review of Walter’s book yesterday entitled, “The Uses of Enchantment“, which read more like a character study than a review of a sometimes surprising and sometimes dull book.
h/t: AccessAtlanta
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Barbara Walter’s life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she’s written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly – I actually liked it even more. The memoir is “”My Stroke of Insight”” by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke – where language and thinking occur – but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having””, and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!