2016.07.16 09:38
A Lone Pine Road - Atonement
An autobiography by John Soosup Lah, M.D. 서울대 의대 1950년 졸업반 Ah, "A Lone Pine Road"... It sounds so sentimental as if it was a part of our past. Isn't that what we walked along in a foreign country since we left our home long time ago? It is a story of Dr. Lah, me, and all of us.
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The back page texts: At this summit of life named retirement, I look down on the misty mountainous paths in the distance which I overcame in my life. I gave up a comfortable personal life in Seoul, Korea as a professor at a medical school and left my homeland behind with the sole purpose that my children would not have to face egregious hindrances on account of political and social impositions in their lives as I had to encounter. My second life in the U.S.A. had certainly been a series of rough paths. I accepted them all as processes of atonement for leaving my homeland. I endured at times almost intolerable tasks imposed on me with solemn resolve. It was all the way more or less solitary, but never lonesome struggles. To my thinking, it was befitting my nature characterized by simplicity and clarity.
In his biography, he describes himself from the very beginning by his family genealogy. Just like any Koreans, including me, would say, he dedicates the autobiography to his father who passed him an unceasing spirit of independent search in life, and to his mother for her sacrificing love, and to his wife for her patience and wisdom.
I agree how truthful what he said are. I, as well as all of us, would not be what we are today without our parents and wives. From the beginning, his story made my eyes warm because his story is more or less our own stories in Korea and America.
From the prologue, the book starts like this... As it were, human life is a process of weaving a beautiful fabric for each individual. I compare the anguish and torments of life to coloful threads, Without travail, the thread would be without sparkle.
I am not going to describe the rest of the contents. It was so well written. If some of us are to write autobiographies, this book shows the way to go. I am sure Dr. Lah will show you how to publish it if you are ready for it. Well, first of all, go ahead and write a long-overdue autobiography of yours now. Our life stories are one of the most precious and rarest ones among all humanities in the world. To have been born in such a window of time in our history, we were given colorful threads of blessings and curses at the same time, so that we can weave beautiful fabrics (as Dr. Lah has poetically said). In other words, we have been given a chance and materials to write unforgettable stories that only a few can do.
Incidentally, I could not believe how such unexpected coincidences are with us. Not only that I was born in North Korea, but, in a month, I will be heading literally to the town of "Lone Pine" in California for a summit climb of Mount Whitney, the highest in the lower 48 states. I consider my attempt to the climb an "atonement of some sort" of my mountain climbing career that had been "truly a lone pine road" and is about to come to an end very soon.
오늘 전화 걸어서 책을 어디에서 살수있는가 여쭈었더니, 나수섭 선배님께서 현재 여분의 책을 갖고 계시다 합니다. 누가 요청한다면 아직 여분이 있는 경우그냥 보내줄 수 있다하십니다. 아래에 주소, E-Mail이 있으니 거기로 연락하시면 됩니다.
나수섭, John Soosup Lah, M.D. 608 Copperhead Circle St. Augustine, FL 32092 |
2016.07.16 13:29
2016.07.22 14:34
2016.07.23 23:00
나수섭 선배님,
미래의 수없이 닥아오는 젊은 세대들에 격려와 귀감이 될,
한국인들의 선구자로서의 훌륭한 자서전의 출판을 진심으로 축하드립니다.
제가 동창회 주소록 주소를 남가주로 바꾸고 미시간집이 안팔려 매년 6개월 이상을 미시간에서 사는 바람에 책 기타 소포들이 postage료 때문에 미시간에서 받지 못하는 경우에 있습니다.
선배님께서 제게 책을 혹시나 보내셨다면 분명히 선배님께 다시 돌아갔거나 실종되었을것입니다.
책이 아직도 여유가 있으시면 저의 미시간 주소로 보내 주실수 있으면 고맙겠습니다.
저의 세자식들과 다섯 손주들에게 언젠가 읽도록 하고 싶습니다.
저의 미시간 주소: Hahn Lee, MD, 780 Hidden Pine Rd, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48304-2407
부디 선배님 내외분 만수무강 하시기를 빕니다.
이한중 부부 올림
2016.07.25 02:05
이 한중 님,
오래간 만입니다. 반갑습니다.
사정을 잘 알었읍니다.
우리에게 낯 익은 Bloomfield Hills 주소로 오늘 보냅니다.
성하지 절 을 행복하게 지나세요.
나 수섭
2016.07.25 06:34
선배님,
고맙습니다.
한번도 수고스러우실텐데 두번씩이나 수고하시니
오직 죄송한 마음뿐입니다.
선배님의 특출하신 문장력, 항상 속시원하게 명백하게 기술하시는 아름다운 문장들을
두고두고 즐기겠습니다.
부디 항상 안녕하시길 빕니다.
한중 올림
저도 선배님께서 이 책자를 보내주셔서 지금 읽고 있습니다.
일제 강점기-6.25 한국전쟁-의과대학-미국이주등 대부분 우리들이 겪었던
시기들이어서 더욱 흥미로우며 선배님의 유려한 필체로 써 내려간 이책자는
우리들 뿐만이 아니라 많은 후학들에 귀감이되리라 믿어 의심치 않습니다.
이기회를 빌려 선배님께 다시한번 감사의 말씀 올립니다. 규정