Knowing one's priorities
for me, my marriage is still the most important thing, because Leaves on the Current is not only my best friend, but the person I trust most in the world
next comes my role as a teacher - to some degree that encompasses what I do here, since much of what I post is in part because I function as a teacher even outside my classroom. Please note - that does not mean lecturing per se. It does include challenging the thinking of others, presenting them with information or points of view they might not have considered.
then comes my volunteering in dental triage in free clinics/fairs/mission as I am doing this weekend, about whichI wrote earlier this evening.
After that comes everthing else. That includes the cats that grace and bless our lives. That includes nieces and nephews and sibling and for Leaves parents. It also includes politics, human rights, the environment, music,
Five myths about extreme weather
I am 400 miles away from my home in Virginia, in the mountains of Southwest, volunteering at the Wise Health Fair (about which you can read my diary of yesterday). That means I missed an historic day in the DC Metro area - as you can read in this story Dulles Airport hit an all-time high of 105 degree, Marshall Airport just outside Baltimore hit 106 for its second highest reading ever, and Reagan National's 102 was one degree shy of its alltime high - and the heat index hit an extremely dangerous 126 degrees. Exceedingly high temperatures were felt all over the Northeasten US -
The Weather Channel reported that New York’s Central Park was 104 degrees Friday afternoon, the hottest reading there since 1977, and that the 104-degree reading in Atlantic City, N.J., was
on a different topic - another time at the Wise Health Fair
I know the political world is focused on the crisis over raising the debt limit, which is why this diary may scroll into oblivion.
In a sense, I am in a different world. The debt limit negotiations will affect the world into which I have entered, but the reality is much more basic.
For the third year in a row I traveled more than 400 miles southwest from my home into the Appalachian Mountains of SW Virginia, to the town Wise, for the 12th annual health and dental fair cosponsored by Stan Brock's Remote Area Medical and the Virginia Dental Foundation's Mission of Mercy. While I know and respect
