August 2011
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Minnesota State Fair: and the Vegans →
I knew I left Minnesota too soon!
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“Only “true believers” can practice medicine, “where the...”
– A Heart For the Work, By Claire L. Wendland
Citing Cunningham and Andrews
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“Yet Oklahoma is not perceived as overpopulated because, in spite of a horrendous...”
– Famine in the Horn of Africa: Malthus beware
William G. Moseley
*by way of my friend David
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“The rational mind doesn’t nourish you. You assume that it gives you the ...”
– Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird
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“It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to...”
– Anne Lamott
In “Bird by Bird”
I think she is one smart cookie
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“Christ Crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich
In Nickled and Dimed
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“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect...”
– J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens
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“One morning, I was talking to a family of ten. I poured a full glass of water...”
– Brendan Bannon, photojournalist on assignment for Polaris Image, on his recent work at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Photos posted at the Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog. (via doctorswithoutborders)
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“We Fast to remember the poor, We don’t ever feel hunger, but for this...”
– Hadija (my Sbitar Nurse)
-On why we fast during Ramadan.
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“Out of every 10 refugees and displaced persons in the world, 8 are women and...”
– Where Women Have No Doctor 