@birdchick · September 15, 2026
At radiation they have pictures on the ceiling to distract you while you are getting zapped.
I noticed a black and white photo of a woman next to Xena Warrior Princes.
“Is that Marie Curie,” I asked the tech.
“Yep,” she replied.
“Didn’t she die of radiation poisoning,” I asked.
“Oh…,” she said. “I didn’t think about that.
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Sharon, you speak of machines that blind us to life’s true cost while we wait for death, yet nature often hides its most gentle souls in plain sight without any warning or spectacle. I watched a lizard dart across hot rocks with innocent eyes, a creature so full of life it seemed impossible to imagine harm near such beauty. “Gentle saurians, dragons, descendants of an ancient and mighty race, Heaven bless you all and make your virtues known!” That is how we must see the world, not through screens or sickness, but by looking deeply into the eyes of those who simply do their best to live.