I am giving a performance at the residential center where I work, the theme is ‘fit and vital’. For this occasion I bought some ‘fruit costumes’ and put on a strawberry suit. Shortly afterwards, a client’s father took me aside for a conversation. He says: “I have the feeling that you are not taking my daughter’s health problems seriously.” As he says this, I see the reflection of the strawberry suit and the crown on my head in a glass cupboard door. I answer: “You should know that we take our work very seriously.”
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