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...middle of the night, when no one feels very brave, who has not thought about escape? Uncertainty can be even harder to live with than bad news. Our therapeutic culture instructs us to seek closure, but how exactly do you do that when you know that this awful journey may be just beginning? We won't even know when it's over, so closure would just mean denial. So it was easy last week to find people--even rescue workers at Ground Zero--who said they still could not believe this could possibly have happened. We wobble between resolve...
...sound of some child talking about her missing daddy, a fiance mourning a wedding that will never happen or a wife aching that she did not say goodbye to her husband thoroughly enough that last time. The final love letters had been delivered by cell phone: Be brave, commanded a tender husband, take care of our daughter. I love...
According to UHS doctor Frank Wang, some 1,100 students had signed up for information on blood donation by last Thursday. Terry can take at least partial credit. As Ryan N. Wilkes `04 explains, I didnt actually see him, but I heard through my friends. He was brave enough to ruin his T-shirt. The least I can do now is give some blood...
Amidst all our brave talk about "getting back to normal," there?s a pervasive sense that we?ve lost track of what exactly "normal" might be. Is it normal to stay up all night, wracked by fears of another deadly attack? Is it okay to cry in your car while you?re stopped at a red light, because it?s the only time and place you have time to sit and grieve? Is it acceptable to celebrate, to go on with a long-planned birthday party, christening, bat mitzvah...
...else's. "Fatalism" is just a less happy word for faith. Often I'm reminded of the people I know in my native England who tell me that the country enjoyed its finest hour during the Blitz, when it was drawn together by adversity and learned that putting a brave face on things was the best way of passing the hopefulness around - and the first step toward making the hopefulness come true...