Things Ending, Things Beginning.
Jan. 14th, 2015 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptWhat we saw last year has opened our eyes,
but now they must stay open together.
We must train our hearts to see the beginnings and the ends and all the things that connect them to each other and to us.
The people we take inspiration from are leaving us.
The people we will be inspired by are arriving.
The things that seemed endless are now very close at hand,
while things close become distant.
Our potential is great, though our results may seem small.
In truth, what we do is worthy of praise, whether just one thing or many.
Whether they fail or succeed, we make plans, and a new cycle begins.
We are eternal.
We will not last.
but now they must stay open together.
We must train our hearts to see the beginnings and the ends and all the things that connect them to each other and to us.
The people we take inspiration from are leaving us.
The people we will be inspired by are arriving.
The things that seemed endless are now very close at hand,
while things close become distant.
Our potential is great, though our results may seem small.
In truth, what we do is worthy of praise, whether just one thing or many.
Whether they fail or succeed, we make plans, and a new cycle begins.
We are eternal.
We will not last.
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Date: 2015-01-17 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-01 05:00 pm (UTC)Yesterday I read your links here, in particular The Empathy Exams. In one of those coincidences, yesterday I saw an excellent play by Diane Flacks called Waiting Room. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2015/01/12/sons_medical_crisis_births_diane_flacks_the_waiting_room.html Both pieces are dealing with medical empathy.
In Waiting Room we get to see how political the "empathy" issue can be among doctors. Some doctors want to reserve the decisions about patient care for themselves, and if you tell the parents of the child "too much" you might scare them away from taking the risk that will save their child. And is it ever okay to "give up" and let a child have a decent death when there are further (painful and damaging) heroics we can try?
One of the doctors talks of the outcomes in terms of his own wins and losses, as though his personal stats are the most important thing. I think this character needs a Baseball Tarot reading...