As the subtitle says, this is a book about how laughter, love, abundance, understanding, gratitude and hope helped me heal from emergency heart surgery and how these important elements of life, which organically, and quite graciously, identified themselves to me through much contemplation, reading and discussion of life and mortality. I was then compelled to write down what I consider to be some of my own life lessons, if not just for my own good, then perhaps for the good of someone else good who might read it along the way.