Archive for May, 2011

Tony De Maio Several years ago, the Ford Foundation decided to send a mission to central Australia to assist the Aborigines with medical care. They searched in vain for a person with a background in the language and also a medical background to head the mission. Finally, the foundation decided to get someone who could [...]

James The Wanderer O God of endings, be gentle As you take my father to darkness and rest Two years of illness, pain and suffering Have left so little of the strong, fair man I still remember And what yet lives surely cannot endure much rough handling. O God of hospitals, be merciful, And ease [...]

Linda Brady Traynham Some lessons hurt every time we get them, particularly those we know intellectually could happen but don’t really expect to happen to US…or…at least not yet. A large, feral dog struck last night. Even if the tracks hadn’t told us where he came from we would have known because country people don’t [...]