Ms. Shin added: "We take for granted little things like being able to clean a wound ourselves, get antibiotic ointment and put a Band-Aid on it, but a lot of these people can't do that.
Wounded, wounded, wounded!
As it is, we not only do little to help those who, like Neal Bowers, really are wounded, but get ourselves in a tizzy worrying about harmless acts, standard practice, and unavoidable short trips into the common ground of language and thought.
We can be wounded or hesitant ourselves, sometimes profoundly so.
"And that wound also exacerbates because when we get wounded, we medicate ourselves with things that are inappropriate -- which further validates the woman's fear," he says.
A country with this many natural assets should be celebrating, and instead we're inflicting wounds on ourselves.
Each of us has a calling to take inspired action to heal the wounds within ourselves and the fractured and fragmented places around us.
At any rate, as Ezra Klein stressed Thursday on an MSNBC segment we did today (with Zandi, no less), it's way past time to stop inflicting wounds on ourselves.
And we ourselves could well become "dead" and "wounded," perhaps at this next junction, perhaps soon after it.
We're not good at receiving because we have many parts of ourselves that have been pushed under, wounded, and violated.
