Friendly Medicine
Department:
Recently, I had an opportunity to learn about the fragility of our country’s current health care system and its social safety net. At the same time, I renewed my appreciation for my community and my Friends meeting.
[This letter was abridged from a longer original, which you can find at: https://westernfriend.org/letters-marchapril-2022]
[This letter was abridged from a longer original, which you can find at: https://westernfriend.org/letters-marchapril-2022]
Have you received your first COVID shot? Have you been fully vaccinated? It is a nice feeling to be more protected from this disease.
Transcript of an online workshop hosted by Western Friend’s Board of Directors in March 2021, featuring virologist Fred Koster from Albuquerque Friends Meeting.
I am a twenty-year veteran teacher. I’ve always taught the littlest ones – first grade, kindergarten, and preschool for four-year-olds, otherwise known as early childhood education or ECE. I teach ECE today in a predominantly black district – Denver Pubic Schools – at Hallett Academy, where 99% of the students are black.
Nothing has made me more appreciative of being alive every day than being a hospital chaplain to the sick and dying.
[This article is abridged from a longer version, which is at: https://westernfriend.org/media/48-windows-campaign-unabridged]
When Veronica Obodo-Eckblad is asked about her escape from war-torn Nigeria as a seven-year-old, she is cryptic. That’s because her emphasis – actually, her life’s focus – isn’t on herself. What drives her is her commitment to others and to a dream. That dream morphed into conviction and then into reality. But we are getting ahead of ourselves in this gripping story, so let’s settle down.
