adj. 1. Tending or serving to palliate. 2. Relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure.
Here's a teaser.
Anna Deavere Smith gives a gallery of portraits of real people across the US coping with health care and death. As an artist she tells our stories, a broad array of stories. All of us have to deal with the care system at some time or with someone we know in some way. She says that her characters all seem to say, "Don't make it hard, don't make it mean." "Let Me Down Easy" is an experience of caring. It addresses what kind of a country we want. EYNU has pointed out the most vulnerable being closer to harm and hurt.
This production was broadcast in January of this year. Watch the whole performance on PBS Masterpiece Theater here online for the first time or as a repeat.
We've had seven months of painful experiences with the death of Maggie Houlihan, the majority tantrums and hijacking of the GPU, the rejection of Lisa Shaffer or Tony Kranz to her council seat, the third time our Mayor in Exile Teresa Barth was passed over and insulted, the heartlessness of refusing permits for Maggie's memorial gathering, Art Banner honors or flag at half mass, Kristin Gaspar's verbal assaults on Teresa Barth at three different meetings, continued attempts to re-write mayoral selection ordinance, plus the constant negative treatment of the public by the majority council members Stocks, Gaspar, Muir and Bond. Hurt, fear, rage and a host of other strong feelings wash over us and soothing with honesty is a good thing.
And, yes, it hasn't escaped observation, Jerome Stocks is a health insurance salesman.
