Between the worlds

[sabrinamari]

The two talks couldn't have been more different. The first was tiny: I talked with three people about how to get their doctors and social workers to help them as much as possible. It was tricky to see so much need and help strategize about how to meet it. What I offered seemed useful, but far short of what was truly needed. It wasn't nearly enough.

The second talk was a world and a half away, at an elite university, with a packed crowd of interdisciplinary MA, PhD and MD students. The room was transfixed as they listened to stories of the people who survived on not nearly enough. Lots of questions; lots of curiosity.

I feel like I've been traveling very slowly and laboriously between worlds, and all I want to do is snuggle up and go to sleep.

Comments

[angiedub.livejournal.com]

That was a lot of emotion work going on, I think. No wonder you're tired!

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

It means a lot to me that you take the time to reinforce the good that I do. It means a lot that you really understand.