Comfort Measures Only
“Mom is virtually paralyzed and pretty much non-responsive, but this nurse apparently did not get the memo.“
“Mom is virtually paralyzed and pretty much non-responsive, but this nurse apparently did not get the memo.“
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“Seemingly frozen, Jerry now stood up ramrod straight on the bimah, wondering why some of his ideas had abandoned him.”
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“A homesickness for a home to which you cannot return; the nostalgia, yearning, grief for the lost places of your past.”
“I am not the only one battling demons. We are the remains of the day. The longing and horror of despair.”
“Her touch. Her tone. Comforts? Cajoles? I can’t translate the language they’re communicating.”
“An impatient horn outside sends me running from the room, down the stairs, and into the star-filled night.”
I stumble out of the matatu taxi, struggle to hoist up my weighty backpack, and am immediately confronted by several people standing nearby under the leafy canopy of a large thorny acacia tree.