A View from Above

 

The huge wrap-around windows in our Neuroscience tower offer a view of the Columbus cityscape off in the distance.  

This is especially true from the 9^th floor where I was seeing a patient today.  It always gives me pause, to stand and look out.

It reminded me of a recent conversation with my son who is a junior at the University of Dayton.  He in a sort-of existential phase.

He shared how wonderfully strange it is that thousands can live in a city in close proximity, all with their own unique lives.

In a very real sense it is a multiverse of beings who are physically self-contained but spiritually interconnected and intermingling.

I remember those days in my early 20’s when wider views and deeper thoughts shook up my small town perspective, changing me.