May 2010
3 posts
wanderlust.
Hello, Tumblr.
It’s been so long since we last spoke. I am currently sitting in Logan airport, concluding the last leg of my east-coast city tour - DC, NYC, Bos. It’s my first time flying jetBlue. Last night, they canceled my flight due to weather on the west coast. This morning, they delayed my flight due to a storm in the mid-atlantic. A few minutes ago, they delayed it again due to...
March 2010
4 posts
As Part of Check-Up, Help with Everyday Problems →
Medicine and Law cooperating to help the poor - beautiful. This personal and provisional approach to healthcare is the kind that excites me.
February 2010
5 posts
From Fish to Infinity - NYTimes →
a most elegant description of the existence of numbers, counting, and addition
(click title to read article)
excerpt:
“A further subtlety is that numbers (and all mathematical ideas, for that matter) have lives of their own. We can’t control them. Even though they exist in our minds, once we decide what we mean by them we have no say in how they behave. They obey certain laws and have...
January 2010
14 posts
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
– Charlie Chaplin
WatchTaken with Casio Exilim 12.1MB Digital Camera
Edited with iMovie ‘09
Music by Pink Martini - Sympathique
I compiled some short clips I took on my last beach trip this past summer. This is for all my fellow ocean lovers out there. Enjoy!
'Hillary effect' cited for increase in female... →
“Women remain a distinct minority — there are 182 accredited ambassadors in Washington — but their rise from a cadre of five in the late 1990s to five times that is opening up what had been an elite’s men club for more than a century.
A key reason is the increase in the number of top U.S. diplomats who are women, what some call the ‘Hillary effect.’
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“Your eyes will soon be opened to a world full of beauty, charm, and adventure.”
– my fortune cookie
I Want You - Rachael Yamagata from Happenstance
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First Post of 2010
Happy 2010!
What a year it’s been! Joy, disappointment, struggle, triumph …each have paid their visit, some staying longer than others, and some more welcome than the rest. Yet all have shaped me for the better. And for that, I consider 2009 blessed.
I’m not one for making New Year’s resolutions, but this year, I have two. One: Exercise regularly and eat healthy (to prepare...
December 2009
3 posts
November 2009
2 posts
A Widow Paints A Health Care Protest - NPR →
(Click the link above to read about suffering transformed into art and advocacy :)
It’s not about socialism, capitalism, or any other “-ism” at all. It’s about saving lives.
Though I admittedly don’t agree with every aspect of the health care plan recently passed by the House, I believe that we need change if people in critical condition are waiting 21 days for...
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
7 posts
The Angel Clinic - Siem Reap, Cambodia
The young girl’s eyes were wide and curious as she peered over the counter, regarding me on the other side of the scratched glass. She was skinny and tan from the hot Cambodian sun, which beats down mercilessly throughout the day. Only the monsoon rains provide relief. Behind her, a baby lay on an old, donated examination table with tears in his feverish eyes. Perhaps the baby was the little...
Economix | Obama in ‘09 vs. Clinton in ‘93 →
xyn:
Wordles of the two big presidential health care speeches.
Mr. Clinton’s:
Mr. Obama’s:
August 2009
14 posts
“And may it be said of us, both in dark passages and in bright days, in the words...”
– Senator Edward M. Kennedy, August 12, 1980 Democratic Convention.
Good-bye to the Lion of the Senate, who fought tirelessly for the cause of the people, specifically in health care reform. Perhaps this is also the end of an influential (and tumultuous) political dynasty that shaped America for...
The Color of Health Care →
“Segregation is still a profound problem in the United States,’ says Brian Smedley, a health-care expert with the Center for Joint Political and Economic Studies. ‘We’ve made a lot of progress in the past 50 years, [but] in many U.S. cities, we have segregation levels that are not far below apartheid South Africa.’
That ongoing de-facto segregation has a profound...
“Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by...”
– an excerpt from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Approach her prose as poetry, and experience a whole new realm of fiction.
