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I awoke in a dream feeling incredibly good. Better than no pain; feeling literally incredibly good through my mind and entire body. I thought I must be dying. What do I do now? I said the Lord’s Prayer. Then I started over in the prayer and drifted back into unconsciousness.
2.
We were talking about what we were trying to do. Leslie was working on increasing quality and decreasing suffering – what makes us (patients and providers in the healthcare system) do better. I was thinking about the complexities of the interactions of people with the system. “If anyone can make it better it’s you,” I said to her. I was thinking about what a thing it is to do this work on the bodhisattva road.
Amen