Happy Monday, CoSo. 🕊️
Still terrifically behind, but after being on tenterhooks for much of yesterday, here's this week's #BetterWorldsTheory.
This week, I offer updates on the family in crisis I've been helping (with *your* help: thank you!), and use the opportunity to reflect on the fairy-tale endings we long for (scientific, redemptive, and otherwise)... versus the far messier middles that reality more often provides.
Hug your loved ones. 💙
And keep kids housed.
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/humanly-ever-after-life-is-no-fairy
We got the worst-case news, I'm afraid.
Now comes the really hard part.
I can't stop César from throwing part of the money we were putting toward him buying his humble apartment at this desperate hope of a double-lung transplant for his son. The money isn't enough, the surgery has high risk rates & a low long-term survival rate, but... it's his son.
I can only tell him that I can't cover the cost of the surgery, & hope that his impossible decision works out.
No words.
Hug your loved ones.