Thread by @usnehal

Accountability

Flowers, I will go see she said.

Headed to Esplanade (cuz this photo alone would check a box but would actually be cheating - the power of “optics” or manufactured data whose lives & careers are Twitter).

Question everything you see
See like a #pediatrician

I shall see from a new perspective she said - I will cross on the other side.

(Actually, I wanted to be on the other side but would have to walk a block to cross so, fine, I’ll cross on this side. Bah humbug).

I shall admire the barely born green hope unfurling into the crisp Spring air, fragile yet #resilient, she said

(Yay #Science and @museumofscience #BostonStrong #Boston ... and yes, and requisite monuments to male anatomy and war as well)

I shall be as perfect as I am, bridging worlds as I do is my purpose, she said. You see blemish? I see strength that carries you over the river. Look again with fresh eyes.

(Yay #healthcare & #science & #Engineering #BostonStrong #Boston)

I will seek to improve my vision, she said

(Yay @MassEyeAndEar @DGlaucomflecken #ophthalmology #ORL #ENT)

I shall be old as stone and new as blossom, rooted as steel and effervescent as pollen, sturdy as concrete and delicate as petal, she said. Secure me as you will, but you shall not contain me.

(@LibertyHotel used to be a jail)

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall traverse this labyrinth you built but know your gatekeeping is your weakness, not mine, she said. I shall go my way for my purpose, planting seeds as I go.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime @LibertyHotel @MassEyeAndEar @MassGenBrigham @MonganHealthPol @MGHCCHI1

I shall be both shadow and light, she said. In my shade you can dream, in my illumination you can grow.

(Okay, this is getting grandiose but grew up to a mom who quoted Byron & Ghalib. That is a Longfellow poem line inscribed)

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall light the way towards the sea, she said.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall recede, not flow forward always, she said. The way of knowledge is not straight.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall go it alone she said. The fast way is is not my way, not today.

(The Red Line had just stopped)

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime @MBTA

I shall defy your boundaries for me, she said. There is no wrong way.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

(“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” -Rumi)

The way is wearisome, she said. Why do you begrudge me this rest? I shall inhabit crooks and crannies.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime #Homeless #unhoused #housinginstability

I shall turn my face to the light, she said.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall pollinate, she said.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall scale any wall, she said.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall wear scarlet, she said. Mine is not a demure or delicate blush. Beware the thorns, if you seek to pluck this bloom.

(It’s also the color of @Harvard my alma mater & of @MIT where I am now)

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall radiate joy, she said.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall be plant gardens as I go, she said.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall blossom with abandon, she said.

(“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” -Neruda)

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall be exuberant, she said.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall remain free no matter how you seek to capture me, she said. You are chained to your greed while travel with the wind, rivers, and earth.

(The MA seal is *finally* getting changed instead of showing conquest & subjugation)

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall embrace and envelope the past, she said.

#boston #BostonStrong #spring #SpringTime

I shall bedazzle, she said. When grasped I shall disintegrate and spread my essence in the wind.

#spring #SpringTime #boston #BostonStrong #esplanade @MassDCR

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