[Dialogue] Fwd: From The New Yorker app. Article on Ophelia Dahl and Partners in Health

[Karenbueno]

"...an antidote to despair."  That is the line that stuck with me in the article Jim Wiegel cites below.  May we all live our lives as an example of that antidote!

Karen Bueno



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Subject: [Dialogue] Fwd: From The New Yorker app. Article on Ophelia Dahl and Partners in Health



Article gets at one of the life questions I wrestle with these days.  


Thirty years of experience has not made persevering any easier for Dahl.  "This work feels more crushing and sadder to me than it's ever felt--you see all the ways in which you've failed to do certain things, even though there's incremental progress," she said.  "I am unfailingly optimistic, though.  I think to not be optimistic is just about the most privileged thing you can be.  If you can be pessimistic, you are basically deciding that there's no hope for a whole group of people who can't afford to think that way."  Ophelia Dahl via Ariel Levy in The Poetry of Systems, The New Yorker 12/18&25/2017


I thought you would want to read A Reporter at Large: The Poetry of Systems, by Ariel Levy. For Ophelia Dahl and Partners in Health, the time to fix global health care is in between crises. http://nyer.cm/1PU0O8e Download The New Yorker Today app: http://nyer.cm/ba5wYPW



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Loneliness does not come from having no people around you. But from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.  Carl Jung



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