#22 Whipping Up
#22 Whipping Up
A lesser-known offering at MGH is their Integrative Therapies Program. On my first day back, I let the staff know I’d like access to it all: Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Massage, Acupressure, Art Therapy, Music Therapy. Why not? I have already reframed my central line dressing change as a spa experience, why not extenuate the concept?
In addition, I somehow have been rewarded a room with a spectacular, panoramic view — from Logan and the water in the northeast, all the way across to the Blue Hills in the southwest. The hardscrabble brick skyline of Beacon Hill, capped by our gold- domed Capital, where I spent so much time, fills in the rest of my vista; I am immensely grateful for this truly expansive panorama.
The cityscape offers up a kind of beauty so different than my bucolic Western Mass. Even on this cold January day, where the sun is trying its best to pierce the gray-blue sky and where snow graces the rooftops, I see beauty in the geometry, in the thousands of windows winking in the morning light.
I am humbled by the industry of it all. Everywhere I look there is an expression of creativity: architecture, engineering, horticulture, city planning (okay maybe not so much of that in this city!) I think about all that is going on in these buildings: children playing, work getting done, conversations happening, food prep in…
