Anthony Harding begins to ask himself shortly after arriving in San Diego. Have you ever wondered if you are really in control of your life? Or could it be that someone or something has been placed in front of a computer somewhere and is pushing buttons and sending messages to your brain? What really influences our daily decisions: friends, family, God, the government perhaps, or a dog? These are the questions Dr. Believing in Magic is her very personal story of survival and triumph as a wife, mother, and faith-filled woman. Never before has Cookie shared her full account of the reasons she stayed and her life with Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
Believing in Magic is the story of Cookie’s marriage to Earvin-nearly four decades of loving each other, losing their way, and eventually finding a path they never imagined. Twenty-five years later, Cookie Johnson shares her story and the emotional journey that started on that day-from life as a pregnant and joyous newlywed to one filled with the fear that her husband would die, that she and her baby would be infected with the virus, and that their family would be shunned. For the millions who watched, his announcement became a pivotal moment not only for the nation, but for his family and wife. On November 7, 1991, basketball icon Earvin “Magic” Johnson stunned the world with the news that he was HIV-positive. In her powerful and inspiring memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever. Ending with an invitation to a ‘Certain Kind of Vow’ this collection is a personal testament adding to what Goethe calls the praise of what is truly alive and what longs to be burned to death. The final section ‘Glad Arrivals’ reveals the wonder he came to experience, and moves into ‘The Starving Edge’ challenging the age of austerity asking more than simply the recreation of a broken system. ‘Unearthings’ narrates what the commonplace contains when approached with fierce attention. The ‘Tuscany’ section recalls a trip in 2010 with the Poet David Whyte and how this alerted him to the magic of everyday life. The chapter ‘Path Crossings’ celebrates the people whose presence has given him a magical awareness of life and death. In Arriving in Magic he describes a refusal to ‘pass the gap that gates the path unnoticed’ and this opened many ‘Gateways’ disclosed in poems like ‘When will you be ready’ and ‘The Edge of Bleakness’.
This second collection charts a three-year period in the author’s life beginning right after publication of ‘The Call of the Unwritten’ and into his six-month sabbatical in early 2011 - when he unearthed a new way of looking at his life.
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