I prefer my art random

Sometimes I'd rather stumble upon some random public art without any warning then spend a day in a museum. Don't get me wrong art museums are great. But sometimes it's nice to be caught off guard without any warning  or time to study in advance. Sometimes when I'm out for a run or a walk in a park or any other public place I like to stumble upon art.  It could be official art placed  there by the government. It could be graffiti. It could even be a tree. But not knowing what you're about to see makes what you see even more beautiful.

I decided to take that approach with the last book I just finished reading. It's not like I found a book in the street. It was written by someone I met on Facebook and I only knew two things about the author. She lived in New Delhi, India. At one point in her life she had the same disease I had, Guillain-Barre Syndrome.  I guess I knew three things, she was a she. Warriors in White by Sujata Sharma

" I remember telling my children some years ago that we were the lucky ones, as by the time we were born, global calamities like the World Wars were reduced to being mere chapters in the history books. How far from the truth I had been!"

I started reading with a completely open mind. It turned out the book was the memoirs have a medical researcher during the first year of the covid-19 epidemic.  For most of the book I appreciated the perspective have someone living in a parallel universe to my own. And the greatest reward of reading this book was that it helped reduce the size of my Gigantic American ego. It's certainly not a parallel universe. It's just the universe.

I was kind of honored to get a peek into Sujata's  life in 2020.  There was only a little I was able to relate to since it's been 30 years since I've been in an academic community  Now I'm looking forward to reading A Dragonfly’s Purpose.  That's the book she wrote about her journey with GBS