Tricks of the Mind

De: DAPHNE SIMPKINS

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When Eugenia Wren retired from her job teaching air force officers how to write a business memo, she chose to downsize and move to a fish camp because when she looked out from cabin number 6, the rolling river was a better view than what she saw flashing by a computer screen.

A linguist by vocation, Dr. Wren had spent a good portion of her life staring at a screen, and she wanted to see the world differently. The sight of the water calmed her, and she chose that feeling of unhurried calm over the hurried pushing of fast-moving images on a computer screen.

It took her body a while to adjust to this new pace.

And when she did, her new life of peace and beauty did not last for long.

While writing in her journal the newest resident of the fish camp experienced an internal blip. If she had been a computer someone could have unplugged her and plugged her back into reset her internal systems, but Eugenia Wren was not a computer. She was human, and the blip she experienced took her to a different place inside herself and to different places in the world where she was treated as someone who now had a disability.

That life of living with a disability became a new way of seeing the world and a new way of experiencing not only the world but her own humanity.

This is her story of finding her own humanity in a time when Artificial Intelligence challenges users of it to question whether being human is a kind of weakness rather than a potential source of learning your greatest strengths of what it means to be alive and live among other people who want to experience an authentic existence.

For readers who are interested in the evolution of human consciousness, Tricks of the Mind explores the mind-body connection of not only illness to healing but validates that mechanical tools which support human endeavors but are not an authentic substitute for life itself.

About the author: Daphne Simpkins is best known for her series of books about church ladies of the South featuring Mildred Budge and friends. But she has for the past twenty years or more also been writing about caregiving. This time, she writes about caregiving from the point of view of the person needing care. Other titles that exploring the gifts of caregiving include What Al Left Behind, Blessed, Belle, a Mildred Budge Friendship Story, and most recently her Christmas theme novel A Gentle and Lowly Christmas.
Her Mildred Budge novels celebrate church life in the South.
Those books are:
Mildred Budge in Cloverdale book 1
Mildred Budge in Embankment book 2
The Bride’s Room book 3
Kingdom Come book 4
A series of shorter works containing short stories featuring Mildred Budge and friends includes:
Miss Budge In Love
The Mission of Mildred Budge
Miss Budge Goes to Fountain City
A spin-off series featuring characters from the Mildred Budge series includes:
Belle, a Mildred Budge Friendship story book 1
A Gentle and Lowly Christmas book 2
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