Brain work on the insurance phones, emotional labour, terrible stories of injury, death, adversity. Repatriation and funerals, missed flights, robberies in Barcelona and Rome.
Why didn’t they stay at home?
Amidst the sorrow, the trouble, the anger and entitlement, the disappointments, the sense always that most people are decent and solid. The sadness, quiet dignity, of the bereaved, stays with me.
Fab ★ I always listen when you read your work 👏 if only ‘they’ knew you are the smartest in the room
Haha! Thank you. We do have some nicely subversive conversations along the way - but here we all are, still in the jobs...
Brain work on the insurance phones, emotional labour, terrible stories of injury, death, adversity. Repatriation and funerals, missed flights, robberies in Barcelona and Rome.
Why didn’t they stay at home?
Amidst the sorrow, the trouble, the anger and entitlement, the disappointments, the sense always that most people are decent and solid. The sadness, quiet dignity, of the bereaved, stays with me.
Yes, I feel most people are decent and solid. They don't make the news headlines.