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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Jan 22

“First, we are all still here.” cupofjo.com/2025/01/21/t...

A Big Hug, Plus Four Things | Cup of Jo

Last night, my sister texted me...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 11

“Let me show you how I cried when you were born.”
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Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege

a poem by Joseph Fasano

No, we are not going to die. The sounds you hear knocking the windows and chipping the paint from the ceiling, that is a game the world is playing. Our task is to crouch in the dark as long as we can and count the beats of our own hearts. Good. Like that. Lay your hand on my heart and I’ll lay mine on yours. Which one of us wins is the one who loves the game the most while it lasts. Yes, it is going to last. You can use your ear instead of your hand. Here, on my heart. Why is it beating faster? For you. That’s all. I always wanted you to be born and so did the world. No, those aren’t a stranger’s bootsteps in the house. Yes, I’m here. We’re safe. Remember chess? Remember hide-and-seek? The song your mother sang? Let’s sing that one. She’s still with us, yes. But you have to sing without making a sound. She’d like that. No, those aren’t bootsteps. Sing. Sing louder. Those aren’t bootsteps. Let me show you how I cried when you were born. Those aren’t bootsteps. Those aren’t sirens. Those aren’t flames. Close your eyes. Like chess. Like hide-and-seek. When the game is done you get another life.

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

Spent some time Sunday hopping across tree stumps with these 7-year-olds. I got a little scared of shinning myself at one point and hesitated, to which one of them yelled, "USE ALL YOUR BRAVERY!!" which is really the best pep talk I've ever received. Sending it out to you💚

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

.@StanfordMedMuse announces 7th Annual Kalanithi Writing Award—for essays, poems & stories about illness—deadline 1/8/23, open to all💗 https://stan.md/3rkNEpl

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

Can't wait to chat with @RebeccaSoffer about the immortality of love 💗💗 and her latest, the interactive "Modern Loss Handbook"! Bay Area, join us 6/20: @bookpassage @Ferry_Building...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

Seven years is so long and so short. 💚

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

“Caring for an individual and protecting a population require different priorities, practices and ways of thinking. While it may sound counterintuitive…. we need to think less like doctors.” 👏🏼
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/opinion/covid-america.html @aaronecarroll

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/01/lack-paid-sick-leave-undermines-covid-isolation/621233/ @olgakhazan

The Real Reason Americans Aren’t Isolating

Many workers with COVID-19 still—still!—can’t afford to i...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

“The government could fix the paid-leave issue—it showed in 2020 that it is capable of doing so. Instead, it issues ‘guidelines’ and watches people spread COVID because they can’t afford not...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

Just so beautiful. @reallyalexronan via @joannagoddard
https://cupofjo.com/2022/01/on-losing-my-brother/

On Losing My Brother | Cup of Jo

Alex Ronan shares the meaningful tattoo she got after her...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

“It’s great that people are paying so much attention to long Covid, but I think that too much research is starting from the beginning as if this is a new phenomenon. It isn’t.” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/could-this-scientist-have-the-answer-to-long-covid-5sszbxpz9

Could this scientist have the answer to long Covid?

The Stanford biochemist Ron Davis’s mission to cure his s...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

.@StanfordMedMuse announces 6th Annual Kalanithi Writing Award—for essays, stories, poems about illness—deadline 2/1/22, open to all 💗 https://stan.md/3pfJHRf

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

Spent some time Sunday hopping across tree stumps with these 7-year-olds. I got a little scared of shinning myself at one point and hesitated, to which one of them yelled, "USE ALL YOUR BRAVERY!!" which is really the best pep talk I've ever received. Sending it out to you💚

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

“What if we were driven by some sense of moral obligation as a nation?” @donberwick 🙏🏼

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

https://x.com/timeforselfcare/status/1441125754964791296?s=20

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

This shirt! This question! Just arrived in a surprise package from my twin sis @joannagoddard 🌸🌸

In case you need this today —

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

Now 💚✅

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

“Long-term romance is such a sweet adventure precisely because it is not destiny.” Love this @arthurbrooks ❤️❤️❤️
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/soul-mates-love-destiny/620014/

Stop Waiting for Your Soul Mate

Love isn’t destiny. That’s what makes it so sweet.

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 6

15 years today. Ditto.❤️

Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Sep 3

married paul kalanithi 9 yrs ago today. it was-always will be-one of the best things that's ever happened to me.#LCSM http://t.co/uz37BcYSuY

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

"To have a movement that breathes, you must build a movement with the capacity to grieve." @culturejedi https://inthesetimes.com/article/freedom-grief-healing-death-liberation-movements h/t @courtwrites

Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It?

A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, co...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22639674/elder-care-family-costs-nursing-home-health-care

Caring for the elderly has never been more expensive, exh...

As millions “age in place,” millions more must figure out...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

“By locating responsibility for care squarely on the family unit, it also continues to limit or excuse greater society — which is to say, the government — from the responsibility of providing care to the most vulnerable members of society.” @annehelen...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

"'Why do you need to be positive?... 'I’ve seen some of the biggest bitches come in, and they’re still alive.'" @CaitlinPacific 💖
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/caitlin-flanagan-secret-of-surviving-cancer/619844/

I’ll Tell You the Secret of Cancer

It’s been almost 20 years since my diagnosis, and I’ve le...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

https://the-contract.ghost.io/the-cult-of-personal-responsibility-is-killing-us/

The Cult of Personal Responsibility Is Killing Us

Working backwards from the absence of a note, you dig int...

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Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social · Dec 5

“Maybe these things sound completely unrelated—climate change, mental health care, childcare—but to me they are all layers to the same uniquely American issue: the idea that each of us can and should solve systemic problems on our own” @amywestervelt...

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