Another new year looming...! Where to go for enough hope and healing to face and embrace another 12 months...?
Well, we have choices. Perhaps a trip. Maybe a church retreat. Possibly some of those books we've been meaning to read. Or -- unconventional as it sounds -- what about the nearby hospital? No, not to enter; but to experience.
Now before you leave, let me explain.
Sitting for a half hour in the lobby or waiting room of a city hospital is a reality show that truly deserves the name. No lights, cameras, and make-believe people posturing their greedy little needs. The people here enter without makeup. Not only just like you, they are you. Only this time it's them not you with real needs in search of real answers
Watching them, experiencing them, is the drama of life played out on a stage where healers and hopes come together. You may have at one time been a member of this cast. If not yet, chances are someday you will. Either way, in this age where everyone is so obsessed with "reality," here's the real deal. A quiet but galvanizing reminder not to take anything for granted this year.
So...
Life in another new year comes at us with high hopes and expectations. All within our grasp, as we resolutely go through the ambitious ritual of good resolutions. Every time we do, it's like a ship about to voyage into the winds. We do it with full sail. Full speed. Bring it on, I'm ready!
And yet, no voyage is all sail. It's also rudder and anchor. Something to get your bearings by. So wait...don't turn your back. Those bearings, my fellow voyagers, are what you just might find in no better place than that nearby hospital lobby.
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"Sitting for a half hour in the lobby or waiting room of a city hospital is a reality show that truly deserves the name. No lights, cameras, and make-believe people posturing their greedy little needs. The people here enter without makeup. Not only just like you, they are you. Only this time it's them not you with real needs in search of real answers" ..... and the answers they seek would best be met by "Universal Medicare" ... when 'profit' is removed from caring for the sick then America may astart moving into the world of sane people ... but not before then ...
ReplyDeleteGeezer ~ How wondrous that you can pick out
ReplyDeletepassages in which the author has invested himself. There are several literate readers who do that too. For which the author is always grateful
As for heath care -- you are so very very right. Obama has tried, but his vicious rivals are still trying to hack off whatever they can. Damn, but the human species learns so slowly!!!