The Yuaaz Nurse is a genius

They all are.

The Yuaaz Nurse is making the rounds, brightening our lives as she goes curtain by curtain through the room, and I thought there was more to say. About her and all the Angels. It could be said (that it could be said is a terrible way to open a sentence) there it's pretty damn condescending calling someone an angel because of their natural kindness and then leaving it at that, as I have. Natural is great kindness is great, it's wonderful, I feel lucky to be visited by it, but the Angels are more than the sum total of their naturalness. They are also, at the very least, social geniuses. They might be literal geniuses too, but I am in no position to judge that. Let's face it, there is a skill navigating a conversation with four different people, four different types of people, and in my case a gaijin to boot without a complete battery of the ol Nihongo (Japanese, I wanted to be fancy) at his command. Her first stop was my neighbor on the right, and the Yuaaz Nurse talked with him about the early baseball today, the Hiroshima kids vying for the annual high school tournament at Koshien in Osaka, and how she watched the game before leaving. Next me, and we talked about the sweet and sour pork my wife brought and how I’m going to miss her tomorrow and Tuesday (summer school classes, there are tons of them). Then it’s off to my neighbor opposite who has the game on now, and she dives right into it, agonizing along with him as the Carp can’t drive in anymore runs with the bases loaded (it sounded like they got one across, but this is the limited Nihongo guy after all). I couldn’t understand all she said to the last guy, but she briefly talked about him leaving tomorrow. It’s so skillful the way she does it, and from a person who has trouble talking to strangers, I’m in awe. 

It made me want to write this. It bothered me. "Natural kindness." Like it's some kind of animal instinct they possess. If you, or I in this case, deny her and all the Angles the skill of their intelligence we are denying their own creative agency. And that's exactly what I was doing. 

I think.