Summary of Catherine Burns's The Moth Presents Occasional Magic

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was interviewing for a promotion from secretary to daytime casting coordinator at ABC in 1979. I was excited, but some felt that I wasn’t tough enough to manage a job like that. I was humiliated in front of a crowd of strangers by a strange man who harassed me because I was too nice.
#2 The mime was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and he attacked any woman who made the mistake of stepping through the crowd. I waited for him to see me, and when he did, I lifted my can of pepper spray and sprayed him in the face.
#3 I was walking down the street with my canister when I was attacked by a mime. I dropped my canister, and a larger mime came and picked it up. I turned around, and the two of us struggled to get to the canister. I got there first, and grabbed it.
#4 I grew up in Israel in the 1980s, and my father’s mission in life was to make sure that I grew up to be a real man. He took me shooting every Saturday when I was four years old, and when I was six or seven years old, he took advantage of Israel’s surprisingly relaxed car-rental insurance policies and rented a car to take me on driving lessons.

Sujets

• Israel
• General officer
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 22 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822536852
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Catherine Burns's The Moth Presents Occasional Magic
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was interviewing for a promotion from secretary to daytime casting coordinator at ABC in 1979. I was excited, but some felt that I wasn’t tough enough to manage a job like that. I was humiliated in front of a crowd of strangers by a strange man who harassed me because I was too nice.

#2

The mime was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and he attacked any woman who made the mistake of stepping through the crowd. I waited for him to see me, and when he did, I lifted my can of pepper spray and sprayed him in the face.

#3

I was walking down the street with my canister when I was attacked by a mime. I dropped my canister, and a larger mime came and picked it up. I turned around, and the two of us struggled to get to the canister. I got there first, and grabbed it.

#4

I grew up in Israel in the 1980s, and my father’s mission in life was to make sure that I grew up to be a real man. He took me shooting every Saturday when I was four years old, and when I was six or seven years old, he took advantage of Israel’s surprisingly relaxed car-rental insurance policies and rented a car to take me on driving lessons.

#5

My father was a motorcycle bandit, and I hated spending time with him. But he was inducting me into the International Brotherhood of Macho Men, and every chance he got, he would take me to see his heroes, such as Sylvester Stallone or Chuck Norris.

#6

My father was a bank robber. He was good at it, and he became popular. But he got cocky, and eventually he was caught. He spent the rest of his life in prison.

#7

I began to realize that by going to jail when he did, my father freed me from the burden of macho nonsense, as well as my son, who was able to grow up as a happy boy and pretend to be whoever he wanted to be.

#8

I was assigned to do my residency at a hospital in Colombia called Neiva, which was small, hot, and violent. I was scared, but my father had told me to go where I was being called to serve.

#9

I was brought to the hospital to help treat a boy who had an abscess on his face. I knew that if I made a mistake in my incision and touched the nerve that ran by that area of the face, I could cause the paralysis of half of his face for life.

#10

I had to do the surgery right. I was terrified that if I made even one mistake, the commander would come back and kill me. I was so afraid that I couldn’t eat or sleep.

#11

I was a volunteer at the emergency room in Colombia, and I was assigned to take care of a sick child. I was scared, but I had to help him.

#12

I went through the house, and in each room, there was nothing but a mattress on the floor. My mother had taken over doing the laundry, and she had warned me that they wouldn’t have any money for Christmas, so she wouldn’t be able to give me any presents.

#13

I grew up in a small town in New Jersey called Delanco. It was a farming community, and I went to a Christmas tree farm to get a tree. I cut out pictures of gold and diamonds and jewelry and hid them in my room, waiting to put them under the tree.

#14

I was able to get what I wanted for Christmas that year: my parents never got back together. But the next morning, I woke up to find my mom had given me three gifts from the same Rite Aid catalog that was up in her bathroom, because she had completely forgotten about the reconciliation.

#15

When I was ten years old, my best friend died from an asthma attack. I took it hard. I knew she had asthma, and I had been able to provide her with some assistance in the past, but I wasn’t there this time.

#16

I was a UMedics member, and I knew how to apply pressure with a scarf and make an occlusive dressing. But I was still a regular teenager. The following summer, I heard gunshots ring out. I stepped into my role as a first-aid responder and helped treat a man who had been shot in the neck.

#17

While applying pressure to Peta’s neck, I was told by a first responder to take my hand off him. I was nervous and apprehensive of the police being there, because black and brown people do not trust the police.

#18

Change starts with taking action, getting information, and then sharing that information with someone else. And being able to train his family was the experience coming full circle for me.

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