Lucretia

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Memo 5 Example of Memo Developing the Storyline June 20, 1998 Exploring Storyline Options I ask myself, what is the main concept or storyline that integrates these vari- ous groups? I am left perplexed. I know there is “Searching for Relief,” but that seems such a logical and common explanation. It is a process that goes on but doesn’t explain or do justice to these varied experiences. There has to be an even better explanation. Hmm! I want to focus on the pain experience itself, what it is like to have pain, to suffer whether that pain is temporary or perma- nent. I keep coming back to the imagery of a forest at night and the darkness, which so reminds me of living with pain, being in darkness that is suffering both physically and often psychologically, the fear, the stumbling, the fatigue, and the discouragement. There is “Wandering in the Darkness of Pain,” or “Pain, A Story of Suffering” but neither of these ideas seem to quite capture it. I can’t yet put the feeling into words. I’ll have to keep thinking about the prob- lem and hopefully the right conceptualization will emerge.

This except describes possibilities into what could occur or give reasons of what the data could be about. She starts thinking about various experiences that she has had and how this could be conceptualized into the experiences she is witnessing.