Valley Bookseller joins Mike Strand for the launch party of his third book in the Meditations trilogy, Final Reflections.  Stop by Tin Bins to celebrate and get your signed copy!

Final Reflections is the final book in popular “Here and Now” columnist Mike Strand’s Meditations Trilogy (Meditations on Brain Injury, Expanded Consciousness, and Final Reflections).  Final Reflections contains the culmination of Mr. Strand’s nearly thirty-year journey living with a severe brain injury that resulted when his pickup truck was t-boned by a semi-truck. Final Reflections contains over 50 short essays that consider brain injury from every angle. The author has seen brain injury not only through his own experience, but through listening to numerous experiences from those who’s stories have entered his mind and touched his heart as he participated in, and then facilitated numerous support groups. We all share a common experience in our own way, and Mike has a natural gift with words that allows him to express the many frustrations and emotions in clear language, often with humor. He also realizes that sunny expressions and breezy quotations, while they have their place, are a dime a dozen. His lines are from the heart and his words ring true. He talks about finding the real world tools an individual can access to confront the here and now.