The fact that the governor of California has been keeping ships with infected individuals, from docking tells you this is how serious they are taking this virus.
They also have decided to let them dock in Oakland – after what may have been hours of deliberation considering how haggard the CA governor looks like as he explains what they decided to do so that American’s can come home.
Albeit that this is serious – we are not panicking. Sharing that we are concerned, or afraid, does not equal panic – it equals acknowledging a fear of something we don’t understand yet.
Remember when you are supposing. It may just be my impression that he looks haggard. I don’t actually know. I acknowledge that this is my perspective. Knowing what happens when a crisis comes up – from my experience as a mental health professional, I know that decisions like this have to be made very carefully. And I assume that the Governor of CA would work the same way. If there is verifiable evidence that is contrary to my view, I must then change my perspective to include the new information as part of my reality – and only part.
There’s always a bigger picture.
I’m a writer in the Pacific Northwest, taking a pause from clinical practice to explore the model that has shaped so much of my thinking. I write to understand how people become themselves, how identity shifts, and how meaning is made in the quiet spaces between experiences.
My articles are part reflection, part inquiry — a way of letting the model breathe on the page rather than holding it as a fixed theory. Right now, I’m working on a presentation for a diversity conference, extending this same curiosity into a new setting.