Sue Webster

Between Optimism and Pessimism: How to Set Our Baby Monitors?
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Between Optimism and Pessimism: How to Set Our Baby Monitors?

Pessimism is not particularly hard. I thought of this last month when I spent an hour in my brother’s kitchen near the baby monitor through which I could hear my poor twenty-two-month-old niece hacking up phlegm. After an hour I began to mistake this noise for the wind, or for my own thoughts. Moments of…