Are You Happy Now?
A young woman walked into the waiting area and spoke with the women behind the covid plexiglass barriers, something about wondering where other members of her family were. She walked slowly past me to a seat like mine at the end of the row and sat down. After a few minutes another woman, a sister I think, came into the room and the two women made eye contact. As she went to sit with her she asked, "Do you feel like you've been put through the ringer?" I was sitting in an institutional padded waiting room seat next to an institutional end table, oddly shaped with 2 levels, and bare except for a box of tissues. It's a place to put my coffee while I read my book and wait to hear my name called. Juli waiting with me at the Cancer Center I was reading a book by Rod Dreher called "Live Not By Lies." It's a book I'm finding hard to put down as Rod interviews many people who suffered under Soviet totalitarianism. The title comes from a quote by Alexandr Solz...