Nineteen: 19 Insights Learned from a 19-year-old with Cancer
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Overview
how to bring joy to the lives of those around you as well.
– Haydn Robarts
Nineteen is a book of nineteen lessons learned from Haydn Robarts, whose short life profoundly changed all around him. Written by his father, it combines a personal memoir, universal lessons, insights from religion and science, and perspectives from Haydn and his parents. The result is a work that ultimately inspires an awareness, an awakening, and a mindset toward living this precious life with purpose and clarity. Haydn was a remarkable young man whose dignified response to his own suffering provides essential wisdom and hopeful possibilities for your own life.
The philosopher is not influenced by praise or blame. He knows the truth and is not afraid, regardless of what happens to him in this world.
—Tao Te Ching, LXVII
In December 2018, during a family vacation in Canada, Adam was asked what he would choose to be if he were not an architect. He replied without hesitation, “A hospice nurse.” Five years earlier, he had a profound experience accompanying his father through the final weeks of life before he died of cancer in Uganda. Adam could not have imagined then that nine months later he would begin to accompany his nineteen-year-old son, Haydn, through a battle with a rare brain cancer. Haydn graduated from this physical world in May 2020, one week before his twentieth birthday. Nineteen, Adam’s first book, shares the beautiful and poignant lessons learned on his family’s journey with Haydn.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781682452004 |
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Publisher: | Regan Arts |
Publication date: | 05/17/2022 |
Pages: | 224 |
Sales rank: | 1,054,647 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
In December 2018, during a family vacation in Canada, Adam was asked what he would choose to be if not an architect. He replied, without hesitation, “A hospice nurse.” Five years earlier, he’d had a profound experience accompanying his father through the final weeks of life before he died of cancer in Uganda. Adam could not have imagined then that nine months later he would begin to accompany his 19-year-old son Haydn through a similar battle.
Nineteen, is Adam’s first book. It is written in collaboration with Karen Malmqvist and Lou Aronica.
Karen Malmqvist is a recognized journalist, photographer and public speaker. She has written for leaders of nations as well as Fortune 500 companies around the world. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of live it up! and a high-altitude mountaineer.
LOU ARONICA collaborated with Sir Ken Robinson on the New York Times bestsellers The Element and Finding Your Element, and with Jim Kwik on the recent New York Times bestseller Limitless. Lou is also
the co-author of the nonfiction bestseller The Culture Code with Clotaire Rapaille, and The Greatest You with Trent Shelton. He is the author of national bestselling novels The Forever Year, Blue, The Journey
Home, and When You Went Away. He is the President and Publisher of the independent publishing house The Story Plant, and a past president of Novelists, Inc.
Table of Contents
Mapping the mountain
1 Haydn's Path 5
Preparation to climb
2 Acceptance "You get what you get, and you don't get upset." 25
3 Authenticity 'I am who lam, and it is good enough." 33
4 Positivity "Cause health!" 43
Base camp
5 Hope "Where there's life, there's hope." 53
6 Faith "Conscious knowledge expressed in action." 61
7 Prayer "One hour's reflection is preferable to seventy years of pious worship." 75
High camp
8 Nature "Think of yourself as a river." 85
9 Dreams "Maps from the mountain." 93
10 Fear "Danger is real, but fear is a choice." 105
Approaching the summit
11 Detachment "You are not your body!" 117
12 Calm "Be courageous. And don 'I do normous!" 129
13 Happiness "Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." 137
The summit
14 Selflessness "Take the "self out of 'self-help'!" 147
15 Mindfulness "To live our lives as if it really mattered …" 157
16 Trust "We have each been entrusted to a family, who will one day return that Trust." 169
Reflections on descent
17 Time "Never miss your moment!" 181
18 Accompaniment "Mutual aid and reciprocity." 191
19 Afterword 197
Notes 203
Acknowledgments 207
About the Authors 211