6.27.12-Is it Enough?

Finished, Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder about Paul Farmer and successfully completed another Graduate Course.  Paul Farmer is someone to be honored for his sacrifice, diligence, and conviction.  He sacrificed family, a marriage, and a life to save children and people dying from Tb and HIV/Aids in a country that could not afford to pay for rotting mangoes.  Some words of wisdom to ponder...


Giving people medicine for TB and not giving them food is like washing your hands and drying them in the dirt. -Haitian Proverb


Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floors, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.-Paul Farmer


It saddens my heart to know that as I sit here with my iced chai and blueberry scone, that there are children out there that can have a damn blood transfusion because they can't afford to buy blood--even bad blood.  PEOPLE!  THEY CAN'T EVEN AFFORD BLOOD!!!!  I get angry at myself because I can't be more, do more.  I can't be the sacrifice that I need to be, to get done what needs to get done.  It's hazy and unclear the direction of what my sacrifice will be and how it will play out, and that's so damn frustrating sometimes.