So vacation has begun with diving into a book project I’ve been thinking about for some time, dealing with the national conversation we need to begin having about neuroethics. My co-author and I have been talking about this idea for so long that the words pretty much flowed easily today. It’s an interesting idea that writing is easy when you’ve had enough time to really think through an issue. Conversely (at least for me) when I just jump into writing about an issue, it can be difficult going. All of this is potentially an argument against blogging.
Also took some time to work on a consulting project that I’ve been at for the past two years in the area of integrating translational research into mental health delivery.
So where’s the vacation time? Well the other day on the road down to Wintergreen we listened to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book on Lincoln’s cabinet, Team of Rivals. It was one of those “books on tapes” which are now on CD’s. Driving through the heartland of the Commonwealth of Virgina where the Civil War was decided, made the characters come very much alive…across the century and a half.
Jim
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