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The Down Lowe: The Adventures of Friends
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Culture and Sensitivity: I Choose Good News
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Monday, April 15, 2013. I Choose Good News. I’ll not be screaming. My TV is off and I’m re-reading a good book called Fast Living. A book on poverty (which we’re all sick of hearing about too. Yes, there I’ve said it. I’m sick of poverty. What could possibly be good about it? Let me cite, from the book, some good news about the state of poverty that I’ll bet you’ve not heard on the nightly news. 8220;Every day day there are 19,000 fewer children dying of preventable causes- every day! Plus, I like to thi...
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Culture and Sensitivity: On These Things
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Sunday, March 03, 2013. 8220;There’s a small hemorrhage in your left eye,” she said. “We need you to come back.” Wait, huh? I was just there for a routine exam, to get some new glasses. I didn’t expect to be told something was wrong. But there I was, shoe squarely on the other foot. After all, am I not the one who should be making these kinds of calls? Nonsense. Am I not both doctor and patient? And could not bad things happen to any of us? Meet my left retina. The darker spot on the right is. Let your e...
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Culture and Sensitivity: Seems to Me You'd Stop and See How Beautiful They Are
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Monday, June 10, 2013. Seems to Me You'd Stop and See How Beautiful They Are. I sit in my green Adirondack, book in hand, but dozing off. Sensing something, I don’t know what, I crack one eye open to see an inchworm just inches from my face, having descended from one of the tall oaks in my backyard. Ah, inchworm season. Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds,. You and your arithmetic, you’ll probably go far. Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds,. 8220;However beautiful the strategy,. Follow S...
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Culture and Sensitivity: Heavenmarks
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Monday, March 18, 2013. Last Monday, before even the first patient was invited into that little church-turned-dental clinic, we gathered in a circle. With our nervous and sweating hands clasped, we dedicated this day, this week to the Lord, for had it not been God Who had called us here in the first place? Why else would one leave the comforts and familiarities of home: running and hot water, spiderless bedrooms, and Applebees? Standing back, I was able to witness a miracle: modern dentistry being delive...
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Culture and Sensitivity: Of Justice and Shalom
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Of Justice and Shalom. Haiti's National Cathedral in foreground,. The Presidential Palace in the distance, both in ruins. Three years later, I find my self not crying so much and I have to admit that bothers me a little. I don’t want to not be able to cry. Does that make sense? I stand by my double negative. For aren’t tears a measure of impact? And might not a dry face betray at least a slight measure of callous disregard? Perhaps. But this is how I let myself off the hook).
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Culture and Sensitivity: Grace Goin' On
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Monday, June 24, 2013. A few weeks ago eighty-five children way up in the mountains of La Gonave completed their very first year of school. Ever. They started with nothing, essentially. To house it, we found a dilapidated and abandoned, tiny old church building that was pretty much unsafe to be in. The walls were crumbling and the roof, well, you didn’t want to stand under it. Most of the village's children were sickly and malnourished, which is what happens when you don't eat every day. We have learned,...
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Culture and Sensitivity: Waypoints
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Sunday, February 17, 2013. Speaking of places, I picked up a Garmin GPS the other day, the kind you need to have if you’re planning to do wilderness hiking. The guy at Gander Mountain seemed to know a lot about them and helped me pick out a good one. It's called an eTrex 20. The box says it’s “ready for any adventure.” I read down through the list of what it can do. This is amazing technology! Which means that every home on the planet has its own unique latitude/longitude waypoint. A. Steve, to be truly ...
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Culture and Sensitivity: Superheroes Incognito
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012. I ran across Spider-Man the other day (I didn't know superheroes lived on La Gonave! Over time I have trained my eye to spot them. They don't exactly wear capes nor do they scale tall buildings. Superheroes incognito. Joseph Yves (on the right). a true action hero. Met Yves doesn't need to wear a cape or drive a batmobile to prove anything. Real heroes don't need that stuff. He's just plain getting it done. January 18, 2012 9:58 PM. I appreciate it, Chris. Thanks. 100 will pl...
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Culture and Sensitivity: Gathering Up Team
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Monday, January 30, 2012. In 103 days, on Saturday, May 12th, more than 20,000 people will gather for the 35th running of the Fifth Third River Bank Run, the largest run of its kind in the nation. I will be there. And, you know, I was thinking that it might be really cool if a whole bunch of my friends would meet up with me that morning in downtown Grand Rapids. Not so much to cheer me on but to join me in raising awareness for Starfysh’s vision of transforming an island. Receive New Posts via Email.
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