Includes discussion on the following topics: Individualism, competitiveness and power plays, cooperation, cooperation and the family, guidelines for cooperation, living collectively, cooperative meetings, major breakdowns of cooperation, splits in the left, and how to be cooperative in a competitive world.
The author's exploration of her grandmother's experience with a stroke and recovery. From the introduction: "These are not her diary pages, they are recreations from my memory. Dates are not accurate, but the patterns are attempted demonstrations of one example of stroke recovery."