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 The sun falls and it's a rush to get packed up. Heartbreak day – a 14 yr old girl trying to care for 2 tiny sick malnourished sibs alone. # Haiti update: people are so thirsty, you can't/shouldn't visibly drink water. We worked in a neighborhood that has seen very little care. # [...]  There’s something about the constant drone of a generator – the relentless, unremitting growl that hangs in the air. It’s like the smell and the dust and the fear of the rainy season, the way it creeps under your skin so quickly, and then sinks so deepely that you’re not even aware that you’re aware [...] First post from Haiti – http://su.pr/29MG0B #  Immediately after crossing from the DR into Haiti, you can see the visible downshift into a worse level of poverty. The major road around the lake is now, unbelievably after all these miles, dirt. Only an ankle-pile of rubble at the edge prevents flooding, making me wonder what will happen, in the rainy season, [...]  Airports are bland portals scattered across the world. It’s really when you step outside, walking down the cattle-chute ramp that’s lined with well-wishers and people holding up hand-written signs – it’s as you emerge, blinking into hot haze and the smell of moist, marinating diesel hits you, that’s when you know you’re somewhere else. [...] http://glympse.com/T1S-EA7 Heading out from SFO! # We've touched down in NY. Can I just say I'm too storklike to sleep in the origami coach position? Looking forward to COFFEE, then the DR! # http://glympse.com/G9E-EW9 At JFK in New York & the people-watching is good! # Wheeling dealing Enoch is even NOW, on the [...]  Packing for Haiti If you look at the photo of what finally went into my personal bag to Haiti, it’s hard to imagine how much thought and fretting and, frankly, geometric calculation was involved. Keep in mond, we’re talking only about all my personal stuff, which had to fit into a carry on. [...]  Image via Wikipedia When Avatar-esque aliens finally descend on us from another multi-verse, they will undoubtedly believe that Valentine’s Day celebrates the mating rituals of the svelte, the pristine, the adored, and the orthodontially flawless. In other words, we take a day to honor sex lives of the Photoshopped. Because that’s what you [...] Woohoo – another step in our journey! RT @enochchoi: Registered with WHO for our #Haiti medical relief trip next week # Buyer be-health-ware: RT @Mtnmd: Starbucks 12 oz caffe latte contains equivalent of more than 3 tblspns sugar before you even ADD any sugar! # RT @kevinmd: Congrats! RT @rlbates: @GruntDoc in Reader's [...]  See, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, so is this column going to be all-Haiti, all the time? Well, no. After all, health and wellth wait for no human. When the tides of symptoms start to rise, you have to grab whatever life preserver might help. And so, while I’m in the stage [...] |
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