For little more than minimum wage, she has sat with the friendless, comforted the despairing, and fed the elderly no longer able to care for themselves. She has changed soiled bed linens, and wiped up vomit — bringing her own cleaning supplies from home to disinfect patient rooms during the...
"To me the honour is sufficient of belonging to the universe — such a great universe, and so grand a scheme of things. Not even Death can rob me of that honour. For nothing can alter the fact that I have lived; I have been I, if for ever so short a time. And when I am dead...
Statues of these deities are usually well worn, as the faithful rub part of the statue (knees, back, head), then rub the same part of their body, praying for the deity to heal their sickness (e.g., cancer, arthritis, headaches, other ailments). Both are reputed to have the gift of...