At that moment, as an environmentalist working with business, my emotional self met my professional self on very clear terms.
But the struggle of sense-making provokes Graham into what can feel like endless motion-study breakdowns of what happens when the self meets the world.
But neither the girl nor the audience knows which of the women his younger self meets the mother will turn out to be.
Bill's husband has been dead for six months, and in contemplating how she should divide up the fortune he left her, Bill — and the reader — are drawn back 31 years to a time when her younger self meets, falls for and elopes with a youthful colleague of her father's.
("If there is a God, why would he allow war, disease and my fourth-grade teacher, Ms. Barker, who forced us to have a sugar-free bake sale?") Jacobs begins the book by saying that if his new self met his old at a coffee shop they would think each other "delusional".
One thing is certain, if my 20-year-old self met up with me today, he'd have words with me and undoubtedly be a bit confused.
Every home is required to place a light at the threshold of the house: in the space, so to speak, where the inside meets the outside, the inner meets the outer and self meets the world.
In countless versions, the ancient myth strikes a universal chord: person sees self, meets death.
We can envision that a viral infection of acinar cells and the subsequent activation of the innate immune response may be responsible for the inflammatory state that we and others have noticed in the pancreas, which sets the stage for the development of autoimmunity (self meets inflammation).
