A Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Alsatian physician and theologian founded the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné in 1913, and would write more than a dozen books on theology, music, Africa, Indian thought, and the threat of nuclear war.Over the decades, hundreds of thousands of Gabonese...
We hiked at a good pace with few breaks and usually finished about 30 minutes faster than the map indicated, this was in good weather. Plan accordingly if you like to take longer breaks or keep a slower pace. The map also tells you what time the trails ‘close’ each day. This means...
event management isn’t something that you’ve ever thought about, because this experience is far more than just putting on a show, it’s about teamwork, resilience, adaptability and seeing what you’re really made of, and I for one do not regret one step, one laminated sheet or late ...
There was nothing I could do to end her suffering, any more than I could end my own, no spells I could weave to bind her scattered pieces back together. There would be no goodbye, no whispered words of love to soothe our raw weeping edges. Maya was gone forever and the world was wo...
I wanted to preserve forever the image of the Udege girl standing in the snow. I waited for four days for the helicopter with the Americans to return, but they never came back. A snow storm had forced them on a detour to Vladivostok. So on the morning of the fifth day, I gathered ...
A meeting goes longer than expected. The daycare center calls to say that your child is ill and has to be picked up ASAP. A project you thought would take an hour to complete instead took three. Before you know it, the end of the day arrives, and you’ve barely given time to the ...
Just as the Passover was depicted in the Bibles before the desecration of the holy place(God’s words changed on Earth but forever set in Heaven. A few days later I heard this statement by one who prophesied unawares. “They are awakening Azrael the Angel of Death.”“Azrael is the ...
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The placement was at Bellevue Hospital, a name forever associated with the notorious psychiatric wards. In fact Bellevue was also a general hospital housed then in an enormous brutalist block known as ‘The Cube’. The original infamous Bellevue building next door was being demolished while I was...