Program for Humanities in Medicine Art Contest Awards

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• 00:10Welcome
• 00:11to
• 00:12the twenty twenty five program
• 00:13for humanities and medicine, health
• 00:15professionals, creative writing and arts
• 00:17contest award ceremony.
• 00:20And I really look forward
• 00:21to celebrating all of you
• 00:23today.
• 00:24I'm Sharon Austell Jones.
• 00:27I am standing in the
• 00:28very big shoes of Anna
• 00:29Reisman,
• 00:30while she takes a very
• 00:31well deserved deserved triennial in
• 00:32her role as a director
• 00:34of the program for humanities
• 00:36and medicine.
• 00:38I wanna welcome everyone, and
• 00:40thank you for coming.
• 00:42I'll just, say a few
• 00:43remarks very briefly, and then
• 00:45hopefully, we'll really spend the
• 00:47vast majority of the time
• 00:48hearing some wonderful,
• 00:50pieces of written art and,
• 00:54having the pleasure to observe
• 00:56the, winners of the visual
• 00:57art contest.
• 01:00I
• 01:01do want to take the
• 01:03opportunity to say that
• 01:05sharing in the joy of
• 01:06art,
• 01:08is a pleasure that transcends
• 01:09every historical and political moment.
• 01:12And togetherness and the recognition
• 01:14and sympathy for each other's
• 01:15humanity is the purpose of
• 01:16today's ceremony.
• 01:19I wanna thank every artist
• 01:20for producing their work that
• 01:21brought us together today.
• 01:24There are times when I
• 01:25wonder,
• 01:26what I can be doing
• 01:27today that helps preserve whatever
• 01:29claim we may have to
• 01:30a free and fair world.
• 01:32Art is one answer to
• 01:34that question,
• 01:35whether it's the written word,
• 01:36visual art, or music.
• 01:39So if you're inspired today,
• 01:41and I think we all
• 01:42will be by the art
• 01:43that's been created,
• 01:46please do something with that
• 01:47inspiration.
• 01:50I am now going to
• 01:51announce the winners,
• 01:53in each category, we'll start
• 01:54with poetry, prose, and visual
• 01:57art.
• 01:57All the winners have been
• 01:59invited to present their work,
• 02:01for prose to read usually
• 02:02an excerpt to keep to
• 02:04time, for poetry to read
• 02:06their poems to us, and
• 02:08for the visual art to
• 02:09describe their work or inspiration.
• 02:12Unfortunately,
• 02:13some of our winners cannot
• 02:14be here with us tonight,
• 02:16and some have accepted
• 02:18the invitation for me to
• 02:20read their work in their
• 02:21stead,
• 02:22which I will try to
• 02:23do,
• 02:24humbly knowing it'll be much
• 02:25better in their voice,
• 02:27and hoping that you can
• 02:28catch the spirit of it.
• 02:32I will
• 02:34oh, I'll tap forward the
• 02:36slide.
• 02:37There we go.
• 02:40At the end, we do
• 02:41wanna try and take pictures
• 02:42of all our winners, so
• 02:43please hang around.
• 02:46And without further ado,
• 02:48we'll get started with poetry.
• 02:52Very unfortunately, our first prize
• 02:54winner,
• 02:54Terry Montagri,
• 02:56with her poem, you departed,
• 02:59was not able to be
• 03:01here with us tonight.
• 03:02But I will read a
• 03:04selection
• 03:05from her poem.
• 03:08It's dedicated for Graham.
• 03:12The daisies,
• 03:13your favorite,
• 03:14are blooming early this March.
• 03:17I still have the dead
• 03:18ones from the hospital bouquet
• 03:19that held your last breath.
• 03:22They're pressed between worn pages
• 03:24atop my sturdy oak desk,
• 03:27and I'm unsure whether to
• 03:28frame them.
• 03:29A muted memento of hands
• 03:31still warm,
• 03:33or rip apart each crumbling
• 03:35petal,
• 03:36wailing.
• 03:38My stethoscope
• 03:40dropped to the floor like
• 03:41a snake surrendered when I
• 03:42received the call.
• 03:44You, just sixty five,
• 03:46unresponsive on a ventilator.
• 03:48Come fast, they said, and
• 03:50I bolted to the airport
• 03:52where unwelcome palms pressed against
• 03:54my rib cage pockets still
• 03:56filled with mint top tubes.
• 03:59Mint top tubes.
• 04:01You, a mother at sixteen,
• 04:03my grandma at just thirty
• 04:04two,
• 04:05you raised me as your
• 04:06own in the taupe and
• 04:08tattered trailer, green mildew stretching
• 04:10up the sides,
• 04:12after my own mother swallowed
• 04:13by her own sorrow snuck
• 04:15away with shadowy men
• 04:17to strange lands unknown.
• 04:20Memories reel like old videos
• 04:22now.
• 04:23You behind the camera,
• 04:25me tiny and waddling,
• 04:27molding snowmen,
• 04:29blowing mermaid candles,
• 04:31looking at you smiling,
• 04:33always smiling.
• 04:35Me, saddled atop a wild
• 04:37horse,
• 04:37bucking, neighing.
• 04:42I, who was mostly taught
• 04:44love through desertion,
• 04:45mistook harbor for horror and
• 04:47vanished to the city of
• 04:48spires and books.
• 04:50I know my clawed escape
• 04:52brought you fee freedom too.
• 04:54I know you beamed at
• 04:55me, the hungry world wanderer,
• 04:58furrowed browed scholar, dutiful and
• 05:01tender nurse,
• 05:02milk leaking from my breasts,
• 05:04always reaching and restless.
• 05:10But I wish I'd stayed
• 05:12and shared bowls of dripping
• 05:13watermelon,
• 05:15wish I'd understood sooner
• 05:17that peace is not found
• 05:18in a pulsing pace afar,
• 05:20but it was always here
• 05:23in our warm home atop
• 05:24rusted wheels,
• 05:26in the background
• 05:27back road country drives,
• 05:29alerting for dashing deer,
• 05:32in the quiet shuttling to
• 05:33and from day in, day
• 05:35out,
• 05:36in the steady showing up
• 05:38and never
• 05:40leaving.
• 05:42This isn't my first letter
• 05:43to you departed.
• 05:45I slipped the other into
• 05:46your sky blue coffin,
• 05:48ink smeared
• 05:50with howling grief.
• 05:55Thank you, Terry.
• 06:03Our second prize in the
• 06:04poetry category
• 06:06is Alina Martel with birds.
• 06:34Please welcome to. Thank you.
• 06:46Okay. Can everybody hear me?
• 06:49Awesome. Okay.
• 06:52I hear it on the
• 06:53border of our clamor,
• 06:55the dawn soaked promise of
• 06:57chirping birds above unbroken crusts
• 06:59of snow.
• 07:01Just as the frozen earth
• 07:02begins to glow with morning,
• 07:04they carry on conversing over
• 07:06interrupted matters.
• 07:08I only catch snippets from
• 07:10my nest of wood and
• 07:11stone, but I'm old enough
• 07:13to know what it means.
• 07:15Renewal.
• 07:16A second chance.
• 07:18The quiet reemergence
• 07:20of stems and leaves and
• 07:21all discarded hopes of just
• 07:23what we could be last
• 07:24year.
• 07:26The future is here now.
• 07:28Are you who you wanted
• 07:29to be now?
• 07:31Have you conquered that fear
• 07:33now?
• 07:35Did you seek adventure?
• 07:37The way that introverted little
• 07:39heart of yours desired.
• 07:41Did you set fire to
• 07:42obsession?
• 07:44Let it burn in the
• 07:45branches of a winter tree,
• 07:46an effigy of whom we
• 07:47finished being.
• 07:50Did you find love?
• 07:52In the arms of a
• 07:53stranger?
• 07:54Turn him or her into
• 07:56a fellow pioneer?
• 07:58Have you gone anywhere
• 08:00but here?
• 08:02Or have you stayed
• 08:04where the devils are familiar,
• 08:06request the same drinks every
• 08:08day?
• 08:10It's not a failure if
• 08:11you haven't.
• 08:13We all want to grow
• 08:14but have no idea what
• 08:16that looks like,
• 08:18how we go about cleaving
• 08:19off unhelpful parts of us
• 08:21like stone hiding sculpture.
• 08:24They never told us how
• 08:25to live without being miserable.
• 08:29It was just assumed we'd
• 08:30find our way.
• 08:32So
• 08:33it's okay
• 08:35if at your springtime table
• 08:37you find you're barely able
• 08:39to face yourself,
• 08:41if resolutions to be someone
• 08:42else seem hollow.
• 08:45You don't need another self
• 08:47or life or past.
• 08:50You can grow despite all
• 08:51the chaos that consumes you.
• 08:54Growth is just resuming being
• 08:56you.
• 08:58Then they'll see it,
• 09:00And they'll love you too,
• 09:02the way they always have.
• 09:05Birds never feel bad for
• 09:07starting over.
• 09:09The sun doesn't curse his
• 09:10habit track.
• 09:12We ebb and flow
• 09:15like solemn, fearsome oceans,
• 09:17and we demand to live
• 09:19the time we won't get
• 09:20back.
• 09:31Thank you so much.
• 09:36That was really
• 09:38wonderfully read, and thank you.
• 09:42Third plot prize in our
• 09:44poetry category,
• 09:46is tied.
• 09:48And first in alphabetical order
• 09:50is Kelly Dunn,
• 09:52who also, unfortunately, is not
• 09:54able to be here with
• 09:55us tonight.
• 09:57And so I will read
• 09:58the poem sugaring in Branford.
• 10:06After the first freeze thaw,
• 10:09be careful as the snow
• 10:11crunches beneath your feet.
• 10:13Look up and find the
• 10:15sugar maple.
• 10:16By its naked crown and
• 10:18brown bulbs,
• 10:20u shaped branches,
• 10:22outstretched arms,
• 10:24arterial variations.
• 10:26Noted skin,
• 10:27its bark.
• 10:29Is it well?
• 10:31Approach an interspace between two
• 10:33grooves of bark.
• 10:35Drive your clamp.
• 10:37Plastic blue tubing,
• 10:39the whole of it curling.
• 10:42Split woody skin,
• 10:44hardy xylem,
• 10:46strike core,
• 10:47a break, a gasp, a
• 10:49shutter.
• 10:50The pop,
• 10:52sweet sap spills.
• 10:58Thank you, Kelly,
• 10:59and
• 11:02it won't be the last
• 11:03you've heard of Kelly tonight.
• 11:07Alright.
• 11:09Also tied for third prize
• 11:10in the poetry category
• 11:12is Katie Parker
• 11:14with Blood is on Me.
• 11:16Katie here
• 11:20tonight?
• 11:23Okay.
• 11:26Well, unfortunately, Katie's not married.
• 11:29And
• 11:32we will move on. But
• 11:34congratulations to Katie.
• 11:38And honorable mention for the
• 11:39poetry category, this is really
• 11:41becoming the me show,
• 11:42is also not here,
• 11:44with us is Jake Villanova.
• 11:48And I'm going to read,
• 11:49his poem,
• 11:51which is entitled
• 11:53KIAA
• 11:54fifteen thirty.
• 12:00There once was a man
• 12:01from Bangor
• 12:02with a defect on chromosome
• 12:04four.
• 12:05So during the day, he
• 12:07would hide away,
• 12:09but no one had any
• 12:10clue what for.
• 12:13At dusk, local townsfolk caught
• 12:15sight that his skin was
• 12:17translucent white.
• 12:19So in fear, they'd inquire,
• 12:21are you a vampire?
• 12:24Since he only would come
• 12:25out at night.
• 12:27He said, there's no need
• 12:29to beware.
• 12:30The problem's poor DNA repair.
• 12:33It's a genetic mutation
• 12:35causing UV complications,
• 12:37and that's why my skin
• 12:39is so fair.
• 12:41That day, the townsfolk discovered,
• 12:44you can't judge a book
• 12:45by its cover.
• 12:46So they bought him a
• 12:47hat, and now wherever he
• 12:49sat, in the sun, he
• 12:51could be undercover.
• 12:58Thank you, Jake.
• 13:01I love a rhyme. Love
• 13:03a good rhyme.
• 13:05Alright.
• 13:07So that takes us to
• 13:08the end of poetry,
• 13:10and it's been my honor
• 13:12as part of this process
• 13:13to be one of the
• 13:14poetry judges for the last
• 13:15few years. So,
• 13:17that,
• 13:18category has,
• 13:19very close place in my
• 13:21heart.
• 13:23Next, we will go on
• 13:24to prose.
• 13:26And our first prize in
• 13:28the pros category
• 13:29is Emily Miller with Prelude.
• 13:50Welcome to the token.
• 13:57This work is a series
• 13:58of five letters on five
• 14:00consecutive days, so I'd like
• 14:01to share with you the
• 14:02first letter.
• 14:05Dear tomorrow, Kieran,
• 14:07Myrtle Beach in January was
• 14:09a horrible idea.
• 14:10Mom and dad swore that
• 14:12Connor loved it as a
• 14:12child, but even in his
• 14:14youth, I can't ever imagine
• 14:15my brother willingly going outside.
• 14:17I wonder what he thinks
• 14:18of the beach now.
• 14:20It didn't matter. He was
• 14:21stuck here for eternity regardless,
• 14:23here amongst snowbird retirees and
• 14:25perpetually gray skies.
• 14:28Today, standing at the edge
• 14:29of the ocean, I was
• 14:30reminded of a scene that
• 14:31had unfolded here over a
• 14:32decade ago. Connor,
• 14:34wielding a half dead crab
• 14:36skewered on a piece of
• 14:37driftwood,
• 14:38chasing Elisa through the crashing
• 14:39waves, tears of pure terror
• 14:41streaming down her cheeks.
• 14:43Even after turning eighteen last
• 14:45year, the relationship never improved
• 14:46much. The echoes of her
• 14:48screams in my memory still
• 14:49rattled my spine.
• 14:51I found another crab as
• 14:52I walked along the beach
• 14:53today. Rather, I found a
• 14:55shell with no signs of
• 14:56movement inside.
• 14:57It lifelessly crashed over and
• 14:59over again on the sand.
• 15:00The tides tossing it back
• 15:02and forth against rocks and
• 15:03debris as if whatever force
• 15:05had killed it wasn't satisfied.
• 15:07My brother was nothing more
• 15:08than that crab now. His
• 15:10ashes were scattered on the
• 15:11shallow ocean floor, helpless to
• 15:13the whims of the tides,
• 15:14food for the low lying
• 15:15mollusks.
• 15:17Alisa had refused to touch
• 15:18or even go near the
• 15:20urn. I couldn't understand why.
• 15:22All of the blood, dirt,
• 15:23broken glass, and pieces of
• 15:25the I ninety three asphalt
• 15:26we had seen on Christmas
• 15:27Eve in the coroner's office
• 15:29had been washed away.
• 15:30He was forged by fire
• 15:32of bone dust.
• 15:33My mother had stood ankle
• 15:34deep in the water, extending
• 15:36the urn to her,
• 15:37silently begging her with bloodshot
• 15:39eyes to say one last
• 15:40goodbye to the boy she
• 15:41had proceeded in birth by
• 15:42mere minutes.
• 15:44Alisa just shook her head.
• 15:46Doctor Garrett isn't allowed to
• 15:48talk about her other patients.
• 15:49If she was, I can
• 15:50only imagine the things I'd
• 15:52learned about my sister.
• 15:53I know she has to
• 15:54write these letters too. Maybe
• 15:56I'll get to read them
• 15:57someday.
• 15:58I had a dream last
• 15:59night. I finally figured out
• 16:00that that's what it was.
• 16:02It was the second time
• 16:03in my life.
• 16:04The only other time, a
• 16:05few nights after Christmas, the
• 16:07first time I'd slept after
• 16:08seeing Connor's face for the
• 16:09last time, I panicked. I
• 16:11thought I was hallucinating, that
• 16:13I was going crazy.
• 16:14When I heard others discuss
• 16:16their dreams, I'd assumed it
• 16:17was a figure of speech.
• 16:18But in the dead of
• 16:19night, I saw Connor's face,
• 16:21blood trickling from his hairline
• 16:22into his eyes. He wasn't
• 16:24so much staring at me
• 16:25as he was staring through
• 16:26me.
• 16:27Last night, I was sitting
• 16:28at a piano in an
• 16:29empty concert hall, empty, safe
• 16:31for Connor, sitting front and
• 16:32center in the mezzanine.
• 16:34I was playing this first
• 16:35transcendental
• 16:36etude, the preludeio, sailing through
• 16:38the same right hand arpeggios
• 16:40that I was painstakingly
• 16:41stumbling over the night we
• 16:42got that phone call.
• 16:44He held his trademark blank
• 16:45gaze, giving me the slightest
• 16:47nod of approval as I
• 16:48struck the last chord.
• 16:50The thought of sleeping tonight
• 16:51is making me sick to
• 16:52my stomach. As long as
• 16:53I'm awake, I can control
• 16:55what I'm seeing. I can
• 16:56drown out the visions of
• 16:57my brother's face with the
• 16:58soft sloshes of the low
• 16:59tide, with my parents' hushed
• 17:01arguments from across the hall.
• 17:03Who can say what the
• 17:04depths of my mind will
• 17:05conjure up given my newfound
• 17:06creative ability? I'm unwilling to
• 17:08learn the answer tonight.
• 17:10Doctor Garrett wants me to
• 17:11finish each of these with
• 17:13a hope for tomorrow. So
• 17:14here.
• 17:15I hope by the end
• 17:15of this week, I'll know
• 17:17my brother better than I
• 17:18did Christmas Eve on the
• 17:19autopsy table.
• 17:20Sincerely, yesterday, Kieran.
• 17:33Thank you so much. That
• 17:34was wonderful.
• 17:37I should take the opportunity
• 17:39also to mention that all
• 17:39of the winners have been
• 17:41invited to,
• 17:43have their pieces,
• 17:44submitted in murmurs.
• 17:46And so if you wonder
• 17:48what happens in the subsequent
• 17:49letters, I hope we'll have
• 17:51the opportunity to find out.
• 17:55That brings us to our
• 17:57second prize in the pros
• 17:58category,
• 17:59which
• 18:01is Kelly Dunn
• 18:03with nine things just for
• 18:04me.
• 18:05And, again, unfortunately, Kelly's not
• 18:07able to be here with
• 18:08us tonight.
• 18:09So we'll move on to
• 18:11number three. Our third prize
• 18:12in the pros category
• 18:14is,
• 18:15to Julia Chiama Chiemi, sorry,
• 18:18with man or bear.
• 18:22Wonderful.
• 18:23Thank you.
• 18:24And here, we'll come over
• 18:26here.
• 18:51Man or bear, they asked
• 18:53us when I was a
• 18:54young woman. My answer spills
• 18:56forth with such immediacy that
• 18:57they grimace at my lack
• 18:58of hesitation.
• 19:00People would actually believe
• 19:02that a bear had attacked
• 19:03me if I told them.
• 19:05No one would ask what
• 19:06I'd been wearing to provoke
• 19:07the carnage
• 19:08or mention the bear's bright
• 19:09future.
• 19:10They'd never say that I
• 19:11liked the bear's attack.
• 19:14The bear lives in the
• 19:14forest.
• 19:15The man followed me there.
• 19:17The bear would not pretend
• 19:19to be my friend for
• 19:20months before it strikes
• 19:22or share the spoils of
• 19:23my body with other bears
• 19:24it knows.
• 19:26The bear would never be
• 19:27my own kin.
• 19:28The bear attacks because it
• 19:30thinks I'm dangerous.
• 19:31The man, because he knows
• 19:32I am anything but.
• 19:34Even from youth, I have
• 19:36chosen the bear.
• 19:38I did not drift off
• 19:39to sleep at night holding
• 19:40a little man. After all,
• 19:42the bear is not my
• 19:44greatest natural predator.
• 19:46After all, the bear sees
• 19:48me as a human being.
• 19:50You see, it's a matter
• 19:51of principle.
• 19:52A bear won't stop when
• 19:54I say no,
• 19:55neither will a man. But
• 19:57the bear would have never
• 19:58understood my no no matter
• 19:59how loudly I screamed it.
• 20:01And the man does, and
• 20:02I know it as he
• 20:03chooses to ignore it every
• 20:05time.
• 20:06So the men who ask
• 20:07this question don't understand that
• 20:09when our answer is the
• 20:10bear, it is not because
• 20:11we think we would survive,
• 20:13because at least the worst
• 20:15thing a bear can do
• 20:15is kill me.
• 20:17Thank
• 20:24you.
• 20:28Thank you so much for
• 20:29reading for us tonight.
• 20:34We have three honorable mentions
• 20:36in the prose category,
• 20:38and our first is Morgan
• 20:39Brinker
• 20:40with black white coat.
• 21:13Most days, however, my bones
• 21:15ache under the pressure,
• 21:17and I am tired.
• 21:18Tired of paying a minority
• 21:20tax that seems to only
• 21:22grow and never lessen.
• 21:24Tired of having to justify
• 21:26my presence in the face
• 21:27of the Supreme Court or
• 21:29the current political administration.
• 21:32Tired of advocating for patients
• 21:33of color in an institution
• 21:35that seems unwilling to dismantle
• 21:37their biases
• 21:38and move towards a better
• 21:40future.
• 21:41I don't think we should
• 21:42consult dermatology
• 21:43because this isn't a rash.
• 21:45It's hyperpigmentation.
• 21:47That's just melanin.
• 21:49Tired of adhering to the
• 21:51adage that I must work
• 21:52twice as hard for half
• 21:54of the recognition.
• 21:55The unsettling fact that this
• 21:56will be my reality as
• 21:57a medical professional
• 21:59till the day I take
• 22:00my last breath.
• 22:01Tired.
• 22:03After again sign up regarding
• 22:04my old patients, I tracked
• 22:06down the overnight admitted resident
• 22:08to hear about my new
• 22:09patient.
• 22:10She is born in perpetual
• 22:11dark bags on her eyes,
• 22:12and she stares longingly at
• 22:14the exit before sign and
• 22:15launching into her presentation.
• 22:18She starts.
• 22:20Kevin is a black fifteen
• 22:21year old man.
• 22:23Hoping line hits me at
• 22:25once, and I can't help
• 22:26but wins,
• 22:27knowing that the words fifteen
• 22:28year old and man do
• 22:30not ever belong in the
• 22:31same sentence.
• 22:32And if Kevin had identified
• 22:34as anything other than black,
• 22:36these words would not have
• 22:37been carelessly strung together.
• 22:39I'm reminded that the innocence
• 22:41of childhood is not a
• 22:42commodity afforded to black youth.
• 22:45He's a big boy. He
• 22:46must weigh more than three
• 22:48hundred pounds.
• 22:49I pray that other residents
• 22:50do not catch me visibly
• 22:52reacting to her words.
• 22:53I try cutting out her
• 22:54biased remarks to focus on
• 22:56objective.
• 22:58Still, even as I focus
• 23:00on his chief concern,
• 23:01history, and physical exam,
• 23:03I'm not immune to her
• 23:05biased remarks as a slither
• 23:07pass the defenses I erected
• 23:09in my mind,
• 23:10painting a picture of my
• 23:12patient so vivid that I
• 23:14can almost trick myself into
• 23:15believing that this fairly represented
• 23:17him without once laying eyes
• 23:19on him.
• 23:20I knock on Kevin's door
• 23:21and introduce myself as a
• 23:22medical student on his team
• 23:24that would be caring for
• 23:25him.
• 23:26His mom, who had spent
• 23:27the night on a couch
• 23:28in the most uncomfortable tucked
• 23:29position known to humanity,
• 23:31rises and crosses the room
• 23:33to shake my hand, glanced
• 23:34at her son with worry
• 23:36as clear as day in
• 23:37her eyes.
• 23:38I spent a half an
• 23:39hour talking to Kevin and
• 23:40his mom, getting the history
• 23:41from them rather than a
• 23:43chart or a presentation.
• 23:45I learned that Kevin is
• 23:46his mom's best friend. He
• 23:48enjoys playing video games, but
• 23:50has not been able to
• 23:51for the past couple of
• 23:52days due to his debilitating
• 23:54headache.
• 23:55I learned that his mom
• 23:56is concerned about being able
• 23:58to travel between her home
• 23:59and a hospital without a
• 24:00car.
• 24:02I learned that today is
• 24:03his birthday.
• 24:05During rounds, with the help
• 24:06of my resident, I presented
• 24:07from scratch highlighting important objective
• 24:09information,
• 24:10but also attempted to shape
• 24:12and mold the team's perspective
• 24:13of him free from biases.
• 24:16A member of the team
• 24:17cuts me off scoffing.
• 24:18Well, I think his headache
• 24:19can't be that bad. He
• 24:21needs to stop moping and
• 24:22get up. Probably hasn't done
• 24:23that before.
• 24:24The granola bar from this
• 24:26morning turns uncomfortably in my
• 24:27stomach.
• 24:29A resident from a consulting
• 24:30team agrees, stating that although
• 24:32they recommended against surgical intervention
• 24:34at this time, he should
• 24:35stay NPO because he can
• 24:37afford to skip a few
• 24:38meals.
• 24:40I bite my tongue so
• 24:41hard. I bite I draw
• 24:42blood.
• 24:43I feel like my sanity
• 24:44is slipping away as if
• 24:46I'm the only one who
• 24:46hears or sees the obvious.
• 24:48I want to scream.
• 24:50I want to cry.
• 24:52I want
• 24:53what I want
• 24:55becomes irrelevant the moment I
• 24:56find out that Kevin was
• 24:57rushed into an emergency surgery.
• 25:00The words, guess it was
• 25:01more than a headache,
• 25:02Sit bitter on my tongue
• 25:03as I leave for the
• 25:04day, driving home in complete
• 25:06silence and reflecting on anything
• 25:08and everything all at once.
• 25:10Everyone remembers their white coat
• 25:12ceremony.
• 25:13The sounds of your family
• 25:14cheering in the background despite
• 25:15being asked to hold their
• 25:16applause until the end.
• 25:18The indescribable mixture of pride
• 25:20and fear coursing through your
• 25:21veins as you cross the
• 25:22stage, praying that you don't
• 25:24trip.
• 25:25Sometimes I feel like instead
• 25:26of receiving a white coat
• 25:27during a ceremony, I donned
• 25:29a black coat.
• 25:30On one hand, I'm proud
• 25:31of this hypothetical black coat
• 25:33because it signifies the sacrifices
• 25:35and hard fought battles
• 25:37won by the giants whose
• 25:38shoulders I stand upon today.
• 25:40It signifies using my identity
• 25:42to take the first steps
• 25:43towards men in a relationship
• 25:45between a black community and
• 25:47a medical system
• 25:48that they understandably mistrust given
• 25:50its ugly history.
• 25:52On the other hand, the
• 25:53black coat is a physical
• 25:54manifestation of my exhaustion.
• 25:57My exhaustion of being tokenized
• 25:58and exploited for unrecognized,
• 26:00uncompensated
• 26:01labor for a system that
• 26:02would discard me at the
• 26:03drop of a hat.
• 26:05Tired.
• 26:06Thank you.
• 26:16Thank you so much for
• 26:17sharing with us.
• 26:18Incredibly powerful.
• 26:23Our,
• 26:25next honorable mention in the
• 26:27prose category
• 26:28is from Grace Lesser,
• 26:31and her piece is entitled
• 26:33the blind man and the
• 26:34elephant.
• 26:35She's also not able to
• 26:36be here with us.
• 26:38I'm gonna read an excerpt,
• 26:45Which I hope you enjoy.
• 26:52Patricia arrives at the birth
• 26:54center flanked by the women
• 26:55in her family on a
• 26:56single motorcycle,
• 26:58its headlamp flickering with every
• 27:00bump of the dirt road.
• 27:02I support her arm as
• 27:03she slowly walks toward the
• 27:05one room with the ultrasound
• 27:07machine,
• 27:07doubling over with every contraction
• 27:09to drape her elbows on
• 27:11her knees.
• 27:13Inside the clinic room, she
• 27:15knows to unwrap the bright
• 27:17scarf from around her waist
• 27:19and spread it across the
• 27:20sticky black flow foam of
• 27:22the hospital bed before she
• 27:23lays down.
• 27:25The room is silent,
• 27:28but for the sound of
• 27:29the ultrasound probe gliding through
• 27:30gel, and I hold my
• 27:32breath with her.
• 27:34She faces away from the
• 27:35ultrasound machine, choosing not to
• 27:38arch her head to see
• 27:39the screen or to study
• 27:40her midwife's expression.
• 27:42She stares up at the
• 27:44cement ceiling.
• 27:47As I observe Patricia, I'm
• 27:49instantly the patient again myself,
• 27:52gripping the foam of the
• 27:53hospital bed beneath me, an
• 27:55ultrasound probe digging from side
• 27:56to side into my belly,
• 27:59pushing my bladder towards my
• 28:00back, searching for a sign.
• 28:04I remember observing my midwife
• 28:06fix her face to show
• 28:08nothing as she studied the
• 28:09ultrasound screen
• 28:11and knowing it once what
• 28:13my body had already recognized.
• 28:17As Patricia's uterus came into
• 28:19focus,
• 28:20it too is contracting furiously
• 28:22against a tiny sack, a
• 28:24black and white film of
• 28:25a body working so hard
• 28:27to be free.
• 28:28Her midwife is quiet for
• 28:30a beat too long, and
• 28:31I know Patricia knows now
• 28:33too the universality
• 28:35of loss.
• 28:37Patricia takes a deep exhale.
• 28:39Her grip surrenders.
• 28:41The midwife confirms under her
• 28:43breath,
• 28:44no cardiac activity.
• 28:50There is knowledge among Patricia's
• 28:52people, the Akoli culture, that
• 28:54elephants travel the same route
• 28:56in their annual great migrations.
• 28:59Generation
• 29:00after generation, they stamp down
• 29:02the same brush and dig
• 29:03holes for water in the
• 29:04same earthly scars.
• 29:07They meander slowly,
• 29:09calling on their cellular knowledge
• 29:10to lead the way.
• 29:12It's said that the female
• 29:13elephant holds the family wisdom
• 29:15across generations.
• 29:18Her knowledge is intrinsic,
• 29:20the way a spider knows
• 29:21to swim spin a web.
• 29:23The elephant's gestation period is
• 29:25the longest of any mammal.
• 29:27And when she goes into
• 29:28labor after twenty two months,
• 29:31her fellow female elephants circle
• 29:33around,
• 29:34matriarchal
• 29:35protection
• 29:36on all sides.
• 29:37They know that birth is
• 29:38sacred,
• 29:39but not precious.
• 29:41The delivery typically lasts just
• 29:43a few minutes.
• 29:44A primitive passing of the
• 29:46planets.
• 29:48I bring a tin cup
• 29:50of water to Patricia's mouth
• 29:51throughout the night. The muscular
• 29:53twinge of my squat reminding
• 29:55me each time that I
• 29:56am not so separate from
• 29:58her pain.
• 29:59It's nearly dawn when I
• 30:01lift the purple checkered blanket
• 30:02from Patricia's abdomen to check
• 30:04her bleeding, and I see
• 30:06discs of rubbery clots spotting
• 30:08the white pad. Her legs
• 30:09streaked with blood.
• 30:11Progress.
• 30:14I gently wipe inside the
• 30:16inside of her thigh with
• 30:17a washcloth,
• 30:18noting the tears balancing at
• 30:20the corners of her eyelids.
• 30:22The guttural sounds of labor
• 30:24intensify from her body as
• 30:26she writhes against the white
• 30:27pad, which measures her loss,
• 30:29the tarp scrunching beneath her.
• 30:33I think back to my
• 30:34own miscarriage,
• 30:36the decisiveness of the clots
• 30:38plopping into toilet water,
• 30:40fiercely clenching my pelvic floor
• 30:42to try to hold the
• 30:43blood in,
• 30:44my mind unable to stop
• 30:45my body,
• 30:47the cramping that overtook my
• 30:49belly and my back,
• 30:51my inability to push pain
• 30:52back along its edge.
• 30:54I noticed that I'm pulling
• 30:55in my pelvic floor as
• 30:57Patricia miscarries
• 30:58my chest tight.
• 31:01I know that at some
• 31:02point in my training, I'll
• 31:04be forced to self protect,
• 31:06to separate myself from the
• 31:07pain my patient feels,
• 31:09to raise the height of
• 31:10the hospital bed,
• 31:12but not yet.
• 31:14I'm still early in my
• 31:15training, and I let my
• 31:17body feel with her.
• 31:19I allow the tears to
• 31:20collect at the corners of
• 31:21my eyes.
• 31:24A midwife once told me
• 31:26that working with patients can
• 31:27be like the parable of
• 31:28a blind man touching an
• 31:30elephant.
• 31:31You touch the tail of
• 31:32the animal, and you think
• 31:33the whole thing is the
• 31:34tail.
• 31:35You don't consider the rest
• 31:36of the body.
• 31:38Sitting with Patricia, I calculate
• 31:40the time period between this
• 31:42pregnancy
• 31:42and her last miscarriage.
• 31:45How little I know about
• 31:47her inner mind, about the
• 31:48grief or relief she may
• 31:50feel,
• 31:51the disappointment,
• 31:53or the freedom.
• 31:55I'm touching only part of
• 31:56her, even as we share
• 31:58the intimacy of this space,
• 32:00inhaling the metallic smell of
• 32:02her blood meeting air.
• 32:05I think back on the
• 32:06layers of my own emotions
• 32:07when I found out I
• 32:08was pregnant before I wasn't.
• 32:11Stumbling from the toilet to
• 32:13the shower, turning it on
• 32:14the hottest temperature,
• 32:16the initial naiveness of shock,
• 32:18the panic that filled my
• 32:20chest as I heaved into
• 32:21the water that washed over
• 32:22me.
• 32:24Then the lightness of possibility
• 32:25as I slowed my breath,
• 32:27as my mind caught up
• 32:28with my body.
• 32:31I peek under Patricia's blanket
• 32:33once more and see that
• 32:35blood has pooled beneath her,
• 32:37a tiny sack in the
• 32:38middle.
• 32:40With gloved hands, I tuck
• 32:41my fingers under the jelly
• 32:43of the placenta fit for
• 32:44a doll, and I roll
• 32:46it in my fingers,
• 32:47making sure it's complete.
• 32:50There's only one good outcome
• 32:51here,
• 32:52and it's full loss.
• 32:54So I quantify,
• 32:56I measure,
• 32:57and we grieve.
• 33:10Thank you to Grace for
• 33:11sharing that with us.
• 33:15We now have our last,
• 33:17in the pros category, our
• 33:20honorable mention for Mira Nair
• 33:22with the blind man oh,
• 33:24with returning. I'm so sorry.
• 33:52Before I start,
• 33:53whenever I read a book,
• 33:56I always jump to the
• 33:57acknowledgments
• 33:58first because I kind of
• 33:59love to see who people
• 34:01appreciate along the way.
• 34:02So I wanna do my
• 34:04acknowledgments.
• 34:05So thank you,
• 34:07Samira. Thank you, Bailey. Thank
• 34:09you, Ale. Thank you, Yu
• 34:11Ching. Thank you, Elaine
• 34:13for all coming out here
• 34:14today to support me.
• 34:16Okay.
• 34:21Okay.
• 34:23I did not come to
• 34:25America to die, he had
• 34:26decided.
• 34:28Dad moved to New York
• 34:29City for a new life.
• 34:31Dad returned to a door
• 34:32to die.
• 34:34Nobody called for a doctor,
• 34:35he shouts at me when
• 34:36I reach my aunt's house
• 34:38and find him heaving with
• 34:39exhaustion
• 34:40while watering the potted jasmines.
• 34:43If you had planned to
• 34:44take me back to New
• 34:45York with you, no need
• 34:47to try that with me.
• 34:49After a week in a
• 34:50door, I start to form
• 34:52a routine that is somewhat
• 34:53equal parts suitable to me
• 34:55and unobtrusive to dad.
• 34:57Wake up, Take a shower.
• 35:00Help dad apply his cataract
• 35:01eye drops.
• 35:03Remind dad to eat something.
• 35:05Hang around near the kitchen,
• 35:06and occasionally help my aunt
• 35:08with cutting the vegetables or
• 35:10retrieving curry leaves from the
• 35:11yard.
• 35:12Beg dad to please try
• 35:14to eat at least once
• 35:15today.
• 35:16Play with my nieces and
• 35:17nephews when they return from
• 35:19school.
• 35:20Try to learn some malayalam
• 35:21from my cousin when she
• 35:22returns from work.
• 35:24Take a plate of food
• 35:25to dad's room after dinner
• 35:27and watch as he eats
• 35:28at least five bites.
• 35:30Exactly five is what he
• 35:32has agreed to, so that
• 35:34he won't take his evening
• 35:35medicine on an empty stomach.
• 35:38I came here to spend
• 35:39time with you, I told
• 35:40him when I once tried
• 35:42to organize a day trip
• 35:43for us.
• 35:44We haven't taken any day
• 35:46trips so far.
• 35:47Let a dying man relax
• 35:49at least once in his
• 35:50life, won't you? He responded.
• 35:53One morning,
• 35:54I change up my routine
• 35:56and sit on the floor
• 35:57in dad's room before he
• 35:58has woken up. I watch
• 36:00his belly rise slightly with
• 36:01each breath, and I see
• 36:03that the creases across his
• 36:05forehead have grown shallower.
• 36:08I assume he has pain.
• 36:10He doesn't tell me that,
• 36:11of course.
• 36:13After a few minutes, perhaps
• 36:14hearing me shift position,
• 36:16he blinks awake.
• 36:18Stop staring like you're trying
• 36:20to memorize me, he says.
• 36:22I'm not dead yet.
• 36:25A couple weeks after that,
• 36:27dad is no longer allowed
• 36:28to lock his room when
• 36:29he goes to take a
• 36:30nap.
• 36:31He aspirated while asleep, and
• 36:33my uncle-in-law had to break
• 36:34down the door when we
• 36:35heard him wheezing.
• 36:37I take a couple blankets
• 36:38and a pillow to his
• 36:39room to sleep on the
• 36:41floor beside his bed overnight.
• 36:43Want a front row seat
• 36:45to the action,
• 36:46he asks.
• 36:48During the night, dad does
• 36:50not sleep much, repeatedly waking
• 36:52up gasping for air.
• 36:54Sometimes when he does get
• 36:55to sleep, I hear him
• 36:57scream,
• 36:58attempting to break through the
• 36:59haze of a nightmare he
• 37:00seems to be repeatedly having,
• 37:03but he never wakes up
• 37:04at these moments,
• 37:05and I don't try to
• 37:06wake him up.
• 37:08Sometimes the doctors try to
• 37:10involve me in their planning
• 37:11when they learn that I
• 37:12am one of them,
• 37:14but dad shuts that down.
• 37:16What does she know that
• 37:17you or I cannot already
• 37:19tell?
• 37:20I'm on borrowed time.
• 37:22I watch the start of
• 37:23her life.
• 37:24She's here to simply watch
• 37:26the end of mine.
• 37:28Our routines continue to settle
• 37:30in only to have to
• 37:31be wordlessly dismantled
• 37:33and refitted
• 37:34again and again.
• 37:36I begin reading aloud the
• 37:38newspaper in his room each
• 37:39morning.
• 37:40Dad stops watering the jasmine's
• 37:42each evening, but insists that
• 37:44now I must make sure
• 37:45to see to this every
• 37:46day.
• 37:48One night, I awaken to
• 37:49notice that he has not
• 37:50even tried to sleep, but
• 37:52is sitting in the rocking
• 37:53chair watching me.
• 37:56What are you looking at?
• 37:57I ask.
• 37:59My child, he says.
• 38:01Who exactly is trying to
• 38:03memorize the other? I think
• 38:04to ask, but I don't.
• 38:07Dad still enjoys walking, though.
• 38:10By myself, not with you,
• 38:12he has made clear.
• 38:14But since he has fallen
• 38:15a few times, even while
• 38:16at home, I walk behind
• 38:18him.
• 38:19I leave about ten feet,
• 38:20enough space so that he
• 38:22doesn't have to hear me
• 38:23breathing,
• 38:24but not too much space
• 38:25that I wouldn't be able
• 38:26to sprint forward to catch
• 38:27him if he started to
• 38:28lurch backwards.
• 38:30As we walk, I count
• 38:31down the passing houses and
• 38:33gates.
• 38:34Here is where the nearest
• 38:35doctor lives, faster to reach
• 38:37by running than by car
• 38:38from my aunt's house.
• 38:40And a few houses further
• 38:41down the road, you have
• 38:42to be careful walking underneath
• 38:44these mango trees since the
• 38:46mongoose sometimes dislodges ripe fruit
• 38:49that crashes onto the ground
• 38:50if you're lucky or onto
• 38:52your head if not.
• 38:54Occasionally, dad stops,
• 38:56his eyes closed, and he
• 38:58leans on the nearest gate
• 38:59or tree to steady himself
• 39:01as his body shakes with
• 39:02wheezing, the start of a
• 39:04coughing spell.
• 39:06These fits used to be
• 39:07major events when I first
• 39:08saw them happening, but now
• 39:10they pass with that occasion.
• 39:12The uncertainty of whether dad
• 39:14will stop to regain his
• 39:16breath has meshed with the
• 39:17certainty that one day he
• 39:19will not.
• 39:21And now here is where
• 39:22I ask him to start
• 39:22winding down before he passes
• 39:24out on the road,
• 39:26something dad used to argue
• 39:27about but now has quietly
• 39:29accepted and incorporated
• 39:32into his routine.
• 39:33As dad turns and walks
• 39:35back in my direction,
• 39:37I am no longer confident
• 39:38dad will always return when
• 39:40he leaves.
• 39:43Thank you.
• 39:53Thank you so much.
• 39:59As we,
• 40:00come to the end of
• 40:02the written word, I think
• 40:03it's a good time just
• 40:04to reflect on the range
• 40:06and
• 40:07impact of the stories that
• 40:09we've heard,
• 40:10and to point out the
• 40:12range and impact of the
• 40:14schools,
• 40:15and learning programs from which
• 40:17our winners come.
• 40:19You can see them listed
• 40:21here. We have the Yale
• 40:23School of Nursing, School of
• 40:24Medicine, physician assistant online program
• 40:27and in person program,
• 40:29the
• 40:31as well as the school
• 40:32of public health,
• 40:34and,
• 40:35the,
• 40:36midwifery
• 40:37track within the school of
• 40:38nursing.
• 40:40And
• 40:41just to
• 40:42reflect on
• 40:44how
• 40:45meaningful
• 40:46bringing all of these
• 40:48stories together from all of
• 40:50these incredible learning,
• 40:52and training environments.
• 40:55And now we'll move on
• 40:57to the art section, and
• 41:00I will bring them up
• 41:02on the screen as well
• 41:03for our Zoom audience.
• 41:07For first place
• 41:09tied,
• 41:09we have Kelly Dunn with
• 41:12Food is Medicine.
• 41:15Congratulations
• 41:16to Kelly.
• 41:22For first place,
• 41:24also tied,
• 41:26we have Reading Room by
• 41:29Grace.
• 41:30And I have a little,
• 41:34info for you from Grace,
• 41:36which I will read to
• 41:37you.
• 41:39She writes, I created reading
• 41:41room toward the end of
• 41:42my last year of medical
• 41:43school, and it's inspired by
• 41:45different learning environments in
• 41:47my life. The composition of
• 41:48trees is based loosely on
• 41:50the architecture of the reading
• 41:51room in Yale's Sterling Library,
• 41:53where I did most of
• 41:54my studying for preclinical classes
• 41:56and board exams.
• 41:59Since I was young, the
• 42:00forests around my hometown
• 42:02were where I felt most
• 42:03grounded
• 42:04and where I loved learning
• 42:06about the world.
• 42:07I've come to understand in
• 42:09medical school the importance of
• 42:10being as open minded in
• 42:12my role as a physician
• 42:13as I am when exploring
• 42:15natural landscapes
• 42:16and to find learning in
• 42:17every context that the path
• 42:19of residency training will take
• 42:20me.
• 42:22So congratulations to Grace.
• 42:28And, again, congratulations to Grace
• 42:30as the second prize winner,
• 42:33with this work entitled Haven.
• 42:37She writes again,
• 42:39Haven started as a sketch
• 42:40that I made in between
• 42:41coffee shop chats with medical
• 42:43school classmates during capstone.
• 42:45During this pre graduation course,
• 42:48what's brought me the most
• 42:49fulfillment has been reflecting with
• 42:50peers, some of whom are
• 42:52close friends, and others
• 42:54whom I have had I
• 42:55have more recently reconnected with.
• 42:57I wanted to dedicate this
• 42:59piece to all the beautiful
• 43:00friendships I've made throughout medical
• 43:02school in New Haven.
• 43:03I hope to extend the
• 43:04compassion they've instilled in me
• 43:06to my relationships with my
• 43:07patients and myself
• 43:09as I navigate the upcoming
• 43:10challenges of residency and the
• 43:12challenges of being human.
• 43:15Thank you, Grace.
• 43:23In third place,
• 43:25we have Elise Rio with
• 43:26Lost in Translation,
• 43:28which is a wonderful,
• 43:30piece of work of graphic
• 43:32medicine.
• 43:34Thank you, Elise.
• 43:39I hope everyone has a
• 43:40chance to read all the
• 43:42captions, and I'll put it
• 43:43back on the screen after
• 43:44we show our
• 43:46last piece, which is honorable
• 43:48mention in the creative arts
• 43:50category,
• 43:51with the first incision
• 43:53for comfort of the law.
• 44:24Hi, everyone.
• 44:25My name is Comfort Abua,
• 44:26and I'm a first year
• 44:27medical student.
• 44:29And last fall, we started
• 44:30anatomy.
• 44:31And,
• 44:32at the beginning of the
• 44:33year, a lot of us
• 44:34were kind
• 44:36of experiencing a little bit
• 44:37of tension. It was a
• 44:38unique experience
• 44:40of trying to navigate
• 44:42seeing our donors as people
• 44:45and, who live lives before
• 44:47being on our tables
• 44:48while also
• 44:49having this desire to almost
• 44:51shield ourselves from those emotions
• 44:53and compartment compartmentalize
• 44:55so that we could focus
• 44:56on the technicality
• 44:58of a dissection
• 44:59of, you know, having straight
• 45:00lines and,
• 45:02anatomical landmarks.
• 45:03And,
• 45:04it's been
• 45:05eight to ten months since
• 45:07we started anatomy.
• 45:09And we were just talking
• 45:10earlier how we feel so
• 45:11much more comfortable now with
• 45:13the bodies. And anatomy is
• 45:14actually my my favorite course
• 45:16right now in our pre
• 45:17clerkship season or, session.
• 45:20And I want when I
• 45:21heard about the,
• 45:22competition,
• 45:24I wanted to reflect on
• 45:25where I started
• 45:27and the mindset I was
• 45:28in at the
• 45:30time. So,
• 45:31I actually took some inspiration
• 45:32from last year's winners,
• 45:34and I used,
• 45:35oh, sorry.
• 45:37I used, Dall e software
• 45:39to,
• 45:40create a sketch, and then
• 45:41I worked in Adobe Photoshop
• 45:42to actually generate the image.
• 45:44So I use different,
• 45:47I'm so sorry.
• 45:50I use, different
• 45:52brush features to try and
• 45:53create,
• 45:54brushstrokes that are similar to
• 45:56a traditional impressionistic style and
• 45:58give it some texture.
• 46:00The image includes a gloved
• 46:01hand,
• 46:02holding a scalpel
• 46:04and some, like, soft lighting
• 46:06behind it to kind of,
• 46:07capture the gravity of the
• 46:08moment. And then I went
• 46:10back and forth,
• 46:12over, like, a month with
• 46:13different versions of this, of
• 46:14trying to decide if I
• 46:15wanted to include parts of
• 46:16the body or completely
• 46:18obscure it. And I chose
• 46:20to leave it out because
• 46:21I felt that mimicked what
• 46:22I was doing internally
• 46:23of creating space and focusing
• 46:25on the technicality of dissection
• 46:27and not actually,
• 46:29being in a place yet
• 46:30where I can focus on
• 46:31the person. And I'm so
• 46:32thankful that I've been able
• 46:34to grow and be able
• 46:35to navigate those emotions,
• 46:36at the same time.
• 46:38Yeah. And I just wanna
• 46:40thank everyone for showing up
• 46:41today and for recognizing us,
• 46:43and they're all our m
• 46:44ones who showed up as
• 46:45well.
• 46:46Yeah. This is just really
• 46:47great experience, and thank you.
• 46:59Thank you so much. I
• 47:00think it's a wonderful,
• 47:02moment to end on of
• 47:04reflecting on,
• 47:06where we started. And I
• 47:08hope maybe next year, we'll
• 47:09see something about the patient
• 47:12or the other features,
• 47:14in the artwork.
• 47:16And I'm
• 47:17so glad to, that some
• 47:19m ones are here because
• 47:20you have many years here
• 47:22and many years
• 47:23potentially,
• 47:25to participate in the context
• 47:27contest,
• 47:28partly as an excuse to
• 47:30express yourself and partly as
• 47:32an excuse to share with
• 47:33everyone,
• 47:34all of the wonderful art.
• 47:36I wanna thank everyone,
• 47:39who submitted,
• 47:40art
• 47:41and writing and poetry to
• 47:44the contest.
• 47:46It's really, really rewarding to
• 47:48see,
• 47:49just the incredible submissions, and,
• 47:52the winners are a very
• 47:54small fraction of
• 47:57the incredible pieces that are
• 47:59shared with us. So
• 48:01anyone who submitted, I encourage
• 48:02you to,
• 48:04continue to take that work
• 48:06and,
• 48:06bring it to a wider
• 48:07audience because I think it
• 48:09is all deserving.
• 48:11So thank you all so
• 48:12much, and
• 48:15we will,
• 48:16take a picture altogether,
• 48:19and
• 48:20feel free to enjoy the
• 48:22snacks and the eats. And
• 48:24thank you again.