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