Don't Live Like You Are Dying

In this collection, Cindy Baldwin (winner of a Cybils Award for Poetry) explores what it means to live an embodied life: The intersection of illness, love, death, spiritual journeying, and storytelling, each viewed through the lens of lifelong disability. As a cystic fibrosis patient who has already outlived many life expectancies, Baldwin pushes back against the romanticization of a "live like you are dying" mindset, exploring instead the innate beauty of a quietly expansive life, one in which you have room to truly live in the world around you and notice each of its tiny, sublime wonders.