June 25

Hmmm. The main thing I remember learning yesterday was that the waiting room for the ER is not just for patients and their families waiting to be treated, it is also a room where family will be waiting by themselves and scared and crying crying crying while on the phone to someone. My situation was minimal (C cut his finger badly but no major damage) and I just sort of spaced that many times the situations are dire and awful. I felt really bad for her but didn't know how to make her feel that it was okay to be crying without being creepy. so I did nothing, which is it's own thing. So it isn't that I didn't know that before in a cerebral way, but I learned it in my gut yesterday. A totally different thing. The photo is the beginnings of an idea for a painting. Just the outlines that I am looking at.