People Laughed At An Elderly Woman In A Hospital Waiting Room Until A Doctor Asked One Question

been there in the preceding hours of waiting: a sharpening, a consolidation, as though some interior resource that had been held in reserve was now being summoned.

“Are you sure you can’t manage it yourself?” she asked. The question was not doubt. It was a kind of careful honesty, the question of someone who understands that summoning her represents continue reading …