An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life Business_Gift_Guide a gentle narrator muses on

a gentle narrator muses on everything the day might bring

and uncles own and run in Boston's Chinatown

one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los Alamos

and for the mysteries at its heart

An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life Business_Gift_Guide a gentle narrator muses onThe power of solitude to deepen a life. In his twenties, Michael N. McGregor traveled to the remote Greek island of Patmos to spend two winter months alone, 6,000 miles from home. It was a time before cellphones and the internet, when even a phone call was costly. Although he expected his solitude to be meaningful, he wasnt prepared for how it would change him. Before his island days, McGregor had spent years reporting on the worlds poor and months on