My Brain: An Owners' Manual

By Andrei Fedunyk

An Owners Manual created by life experiences and miss-adventures. We are born, grow up, get raised, get educated, but never get an Owners Manual issued as to hoe it all should/could come together to make it work.

We also, do not get any guidance to identify any factory re-calls.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491753552

Andrei Fedunyk

Andrei is currently retired. He studied at the University of Alberta, University of Toronto, and some extension courses at Ryerson in Toronto. Main course of study was in Voice-Opera however, illness caused a change to Public Administration/management. I am a widower with three adult children. I lived in various locations across Canada but now reside on the west coast in British Columbia.

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MY BRAIN

AN OWNERS’ MANUAL

Copyright © 2015 Andrei Fedunyk.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-5354-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4917-5355-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014920381

iUniverse rev. date: 01/22/2015

CONTENTS

Foreword

Chapter One – Impressions

Chapter Two – Perceptions

Chapter Three – Assumptions

Chapter Four – Reality

Chapter Five – Babel

Chapter Six – Communicate

Chapter Seven – Wisdom

Epilog

FOREWORD

FLASH-BACK

Spring 1992

My world as I knew it, came CRASHING down. I was informed that my marriage of some 20 years has come to an end. Attempts at counselling failed. Attempt at reconciliation/healing without success. I moved out as asked and sought to find healing for myself.

After a few periods, when thoughts of suicide were entertained, a few re-locations as to where I lived, and a new relationship which lasted about six years, but drifted apart, much less traumatically, I was ready to rejoin my life journey.

Then in 1997 I undertook to write down my thoughts, impressions, conclusions, wisdom, gained during my struggle to rebuild.

This is what I wrote down back in 1997. Upon rereading this in April of 2014, and being exposed to several friends starting a similar set of challenges, to their marriages and/or health traumas, I decided that maybe sharing