Tag: Waiting

A Coward With a Gun is a Death Waiting

When I was 18 years old (1974) a friend and I were traveling south towards Greensboro, NC on US 220 late one night when his car started overheating badly. After going as far as he dared drive the car we pulled to the side of the highway in front of a house that had the lights on, and turned on the 4...

Healthy or not, here I come. Physical and mental shapes of waiting.

Rethinking and redesigning health and care is both easy and difficult. It is easy if we see healthcare as a smooth assembly line that produces either cured or dead people — one of the two will inevitably happen sooner or later. If we look at healthcare as a production li...

Are You Sick and Tired of Waiting?

I am tired of waiting. But waiting is what I do best. The Morning Wait I wait for the alarm clock to go off in the morning so I can get out of bed. If I wake up before the chime jars me out of my dream world, I don’t leave my bed. I don’t dare. I wait until the device says it&rs...