"The staff were overworked, underpaid, and doubtless had considerable turnover on that account." (p. 442)
Not just in public hospitals in the US. My mother wound up in an expensive "Well Being Home" in Leicester. My two sisters, living nearby, visited regularly but found it very difficult to maintain a consistent relationship with any stable set of caring staff: an essential job that is undervalued.
In the Prologue of Starfarers, a young boy looks at the night sky. He becomes the grandfather of the captain of the interstellar spaceship, Envoy. In the opening chapter of Genesis, a young man studies the night sky. He becomes an astronaut whose personality is later incorporated into post-organic intelligences that traverse interstellar distances. In both cases, the moral of the story is that the present connects with the future and Earth with the rest of the universe.
Onward and upward, maybe.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
One thing I am sure of is that mankind will get off this rock in a chaotic, messy, lopsided kind of way! Which works for me, as long as it happens.
Ad astra! Sean
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