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The World Spins By: A Gift of Time, Love, and the Long Bike Ride Back to Myself
In three months, Jerry thought he lost everything-his meaningful career, the woman he was supposed to grow old with, and a close friend to a terminal illness-but he soon realized that he was given a gift.
Jerry had worked in corporate America for 10 soulless years, following a laminated road map to happiness handed to him at graduation from business school. Then he founded a hospice with his mother. Serving patients at the end of life, Jerry learned his greatest lesson, one not found in any textbook or cubicle-the value of time.
The World Spins By is an intimate journey of loss, curiosity, and love-recounted one pedal stroke at a time along Jerry's two-year bicycle journey back to himself. Over mountains in Tibet, across deserts in Israel, and even a clinic to treat worms in India, Jerry discovered that although you may have a map, real life is unscripted. It goes beyond the borders and occurs at the intersection of fear and control. Throughout the book he shares tales of comical and harrowing adventures on the road and lessons learned from his hospice career, while continually pondering the question, am I using my time well?
Jerry had worked in corporate America for 10 soulless years, following a laminated road map to happiness handed to him at graduation from business school. Then he founded a hospice with his mother. Serving patients at the end of life, Jerry learned his greatest lesson, one not found in any textbook or cubicle-the value of time.
The World Spins By is an intimate journey of loss, curiosity, and love-recounted one pedal stroke at a time along Jerry's two-year bicycle journey back to himself. Over mountains in Tibet, across deserts in Israel, and even a clinic to treat worms in India, Jerry discovered that although you may have a map, real life is unscripted. It goes beyond the borders and occurs at the intersection of fear and control. Throughout the book he shares tales of comical and harrowing adventures on the road and lessons learned from his hospice career, while continually pondering the question, am I using my time well?
356 pages, Paperback
Published December 6, 2022
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February 8, 2023
“Get dressed F***** we’re going on an adventure”
April 20, 2024
This was quite good. While there's some cliched experiences here: a white person from Boulder who seeks yoga and hard physical challenges by biking through India; the author seems quite self-aware and doesn't express any unrealistic epiphanies, mostly regret for how he didn't treat his relationships with more compassion and understanding, which is realistic as he shares his background. The rewarding parts are both his bonding with the two Swiss bikepackers he meets and joins on his travels, the photographs throughout, and the good balance between describing the biking and describing the color of life around him as he goes. Found this via the Let's Go Bike podcast, which interviewed Kopack and it was true to the podcast description.
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