By Arianne Zwartjes
Zwartjes’s fantastically crafted poetic prose humanizes the technical descriptions of health conditions and illuminates the medical figuring out of emotional states. way over a popularization of technology, Detailing Trauma explores the wondrous anatomy and body structure of the human physique, a geography of our human frailties—and additionally our wealth, as people, of affection and desire and the potential for meditative thought.
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To return to a suitable or correct state. To return to a previous state of health, prosperity or equanimity. But healing from wounds actually changes us. We are a different cluster of cells, blood vessels, and tissue once remodeled. * * * How we choose to respond to the fracture all around us can be transformative. What we make of our own wounding. Which narrative we choose to believe. One of today’s prevalent stories is that of no-narrative. That everything is simply fracture. But I believe a different narrative is also seeping into things.
After that, our body’s role, in an evolutionary sense, is done. There are varying theories about aging. One holds that aging events are random, cumulative, and microscopic. That there is a slow accumulation of damage to cell membranes. That chemical reactions eventually bind together those molecular structures that work best when separate: proteins, nucleic acid, and collagen. 32 Another theory proposes that aging is simply genetically programmed into our cells: they have a set life span, a genetic timetable.
To return to a previous state of health, prosperity or equanimity. But healing from wounds actually changes us. We are a different cluster of cells, blood vessels, and tissue once remodeled. * * * How we choose to respond to the fracture all around us can be transformative. What we make of our own wounding. Which narrative we choose to believe. One of today’s prevalent stories is that of no-narrative. That everything is simply fracture. But I believe a different narrative is also seeping into things.