Linda here. At Randall’s hospital meetings, twenty people sat around a conference table discussing leukemia protocols. As a businessperson, I noticed something unsettling: unlike other processes with clear endpoints, this one had two paths – continue treatment or face an “unfavorable outcome.”
I had to ask what that meant, an “unfavorable outcome.” It meant death. They were coating a bad potential outcome with optimism.
I never really thought about an end. I always think of possibilities – if the known processes don’t work, maybe there’s another way to squeeze by and do it differently.
We love music, but who would have thought we could create a musical? We did – but we’d just do it our way.
The thought of this musical sitting unshared pains me. Not because of my involvement or others’, but because the music is genuinely good and the story is amazing. I couldn’t accept an “unfavorable outcome” for this work.
We’ve been successful before. Why can’t we be successful again?
Who Is Esther was born from refusing to accept unfavorable outcomes – in health, in art, in life. I think Esther herself said it best:
‘I always try I did not fail
Perish not this is my tale
Other’s plans I may derail
Oh yes I have worked to prevail’
We are believers”
The gift exists. Now we share it.