Dappled grey and white female long tailed duck on reflective blue water
Beautiful afternoon on Lake Ontario. Winter very much still here but it won’t be long until these long tail ducks head back north. 🪶
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A sepia family portrait of faceless young people and the title “We are in the Details”
Learning the details of each others’ lives is the key to solidarity - more compassion, less stigma, less judgement - less we vs them.
A sepia family portrait of faceless young people and the title “We are in the Details”
Learning the details of each others’ lives is the key to solidarity - more compassion, less stigma, less judgement - less we vs them.
Bird with red head and long orange beaks swims away from camera
Merganser enjoys milder weather on Lake Ontario 🪶
“Sea”
Water bird eating crustacean
Large see bird, White-winged Scoter, makes guest appearance on Lake Ontario 🪶
Close up 🪶
Edie’s strength—the self-proclaimed worry wart who opposed her mad father when no one else would, worked without education, & managed her family through beer storms and the Depression—somehow matched malignant forces that were in motion long before she was born.
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Raptor soars with apartment building in background
Urban eagle. A juvenile bald eagle in the city🪶
Hawk perched on branch, brightly lit by sun
Cooper’s Hawk today in Toronto. -17 but nice and sunny. 🪶
Validation is not agreement, and it helps
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Two ducks of different size and colouration swimming on blue water on sunny day.
Hooded merganser thinks it is a goldeneye. This pair has been inseparable lately. 🪶
Elijah didn’t drive alone. Charger was always in the shotgun seat beside him, and usually they were on their way to a park... Elijah would drive around, looking for good places for a dog to run and for a good place for him to jump.
Yalom's Spare Prescription
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Carmen's fourth specialist was useless to her. There was nothing that he could say that would carry weight; he gave that authority away with his brisk indifference to her experience...
#pain #healthcare
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View of hooded merganser from behind as it swims away. Small water bird with big hooded head with white patch , back and brown back with white stripes.
See ya. #birds
Small duck with big helmet- like head and patches of white, brown and black feathers
The hooded merganser is an awesome winter #bird
Train platform with workers in orange uniforms shovelling snow. Sky is dark and lights are on.
Early morning digging out train platforms after #Toronto snow day
The goals of psychiatric care - more freedom, less cruelty, less suffering - are brought into relief by the story of a woman who chose medically assisted death. open.substack.com/pub/bobmaund...
Fat blue fancy pigeon with multicoloured neck fringe, banded, standing on rock
Red parrot like bird in an enclosure
Pink galah walking on log
Zoo #birds
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Great picture!
Red-tailed hawk perched on streetlight
City hawk 🪶
Two ducks, one brown, one white and black with fancy feathers on green water
Hooded Merganser and Goldeneye toodling around icy water 🪶
Brown and white duck on rolling blue water
Light was beautiful this afternoon on Frenchman’s Bay, Lake Ontario 🪶
A bed and sink in an old hospital with the title, Sandbags: When I knew nothing, Harry taught me that relationships are the foundation of medicine.
My night with Harry foreshadowed a career in medicine. This is what we do… using whatever blunt tools are available to buy time, waiting for a better solution, knowing that the stakes are high, the solution is often elusive, and that just being there may be the best medicine we have to offer.
On being genuinely human in health care
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Grey and white bird with crossbill perched on winter branch with blue sky in background
This was exciting (to me). On a day with no birds to see except gulls and chickadees - my very first sighting of a Northern Shrike. 🪶
Irvin Yalom asserts humans are "'the uncontested authors' of their lives... individuals create everything... including their own suffering. I have no idea how a thoughtful, observant, person who spent a life in the business of caring for others could believe that."
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