Intime login1/10/2024 ![]() Using remarkable visual imagery, he shows us a woman at the end of life: “Tubes of oxygen she wore like old jewelry, the air flowing through them so fast the room sounded like a Chicagoan wind.” He reflects on their story and muses, “how a man in a spacecraft and a decision to enroll in a physics class, or not to, might make all the difference someday.” In The Astronaut, Benjamin Teasdale, a medical student at Stanford University, listens to a couple as they recall the beginning of their life together and face their final separation. We look beyond the misery to the small moments giving us strength. Our Non-Fiction essays examine grief and suffering, yet somehow find solace and beauty in moving forward. Short and long essays, poems and photos, videos and artwork connect us to a greater truth, one shared by all beings. Out of this rebirth of creativity comes our Spring 2022 issue. Spring comes and the grass grows without being bothered by our sorrows. We can be reminded that joy is only appreciated through the lens of its opposite. Through the written word and visual arts, we can transform our emotions into something more tangible, something that touches both the personal and the universal. What can we do with our fear and anguish? We cannot hide from the pictures of the genocide in Ukraine. We have been sitting quietly these past two years in this pandemic, worrying about our health and that of our loved ones and watching the death numbers as they rise and fall and rise and fall. ![]() Let the master Basho guide us on the path of renewal as we look at the highlights of the Spring 2022 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), the undisputed master of the Haiku form of poetry, is regarded as among the greatest poets in Japan.
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