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...mother once worked with a home-nursing service. One of the ladies she visited had had a close brush with death. She used to tell my mom, "Don't worry, honey. There's nothing out there...
Mesquite is a brush, a shrub, a tree, an infestation and a tremendous thirst...
...Because it exerts such exorbitant claims upon a starkly limited water supply, mesquite (in conspiracy with prickly pear, cedar and other heavy drinkers) dictates what will flourish and what will wither; it decides whether the cattle and sheep will have enough range grass to grow fat upon. Water and brush run certain segments of the West Texas economy in an almost embarrassingly thorough way. Sisyphus rolled a boulder; a rancher in West Texas, tempted to reflect on the existential futility of life (and that must happen now and then), can contemplate his mesquite...
...Coach--Brush Christenson, University of Alaska-Anchorage...
Sabom found that 40% of his random sample had vivid memories of their brush with death. A third had what he calls purely "autoscopic" experiences, in which they remember floating at ceiling height above the operating table (or battlefield) and looking down on their own lifeless bodies. About half had "transcendental" experiences, in which they recall traveling through a dark tunnel toward a bright light. Some, like Owen Thomas, encountered other figures or entered unearthly landscapes like those painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Several patients reported both autoscopic and transcendental elements...