Jan. 23rd, 2009

This is my view every morning as I come up the Metro escalator into Dupont Circle, where my office is. That's a quote from Walt Whitman's "The Wound-Dresser" engraved in the stone around the escalator in honor of AIDS/HIV caregivers:

"Thus in silence in dreams' projections,
Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals,
The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young,
Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad..."