Compassion fatigue: a symptom of caring

listening to their anguished voices she too became undone and the lines of life etched in the palms of her hands faded in all the wrong places . . . “Burnout is a physical, social, emotional and spiritual situation where people have really lost themselves and lost meaning.” “Compassion fatigue is “a consequence of caring, and human beings care for each other.” [W]e often don’t recognize that cost.

Storm Lantern 1999

Storm Lantern 1999

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Fantasy Palace, Iqaluit, Nunavut June 27, 2002

Fantasy Palace, Iqaluit, Nunavut June 27, 2002

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This is a partial truth, more like a flicktion, or a dream, or the virtual than the real. It’s not science or art, more like an invention or innovation. Pieces of this a flicktion are scattered throughout my semi-nomadic cybercamps like tiny inukshuk on a global [...]