This reflection stems from an exchange with palliative care workers who expressed their difficulties in synchronizing with their patients. On the one hand, time is focused on action, on the other, on waiting. How can we provide care when time is lacking and eludes us? We can first recognize in the difference and the gap the foundations of the caring relationship. The presence of these bodies, those of caregivers and those of patients, allows us to create a bond that, in the moment, resists the distinct temporalities.
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