Day 4752: Happy Birthday, Dad! & DYK: Free Medical School & TBT

 

"Interrupted": junk collage, digital.

     

  

Want music?

    Click: Marvin Gaye, After the Dance.

 

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Happy Birthday, Dad

I've been thinking about my Dad's birthday. 

Today would be his 117th birthday.

Dad died 31 years ago, at age 86.

Dad and his Grandma, old photo, digital collage

He always said he had the best childhood.

Dad, age 5 at the fishing hole.

Later he lived through the depression & was forever changed and frugal. He never smoked or drank. I never heard him swear except once, when he was teaching me to drive & I popped the clutch!

My dad was a driver, Greyhound buses & later he chauffeured movie stars to work & back home. He had a lot of name dropping stories. As a young man he made the Olympic diving team only to get TB and had to miss and spend time in recovery.                    A heartbreak. 

Fathers Day, 1974

He had wanted a boy, but got me.

He always, only called me Jack.

Dad, age 80, Hong Kong 

In 1990 Dad took me on a three week, 5-star trip to the Orient. Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, China, JoJakarta, Bali, Singapore, Korea, I never saw him happier that the picture above, where we were on a junk (boat) on Hong Kong Bay, "just like in the movies". He loved to dance & tell stories, he was skilled at both.

(Continued from last week, here)

After evening training May 29, 2016 

Demura Sensei's Honbu Dojo, Santa Ana, CA 

Alice Walton, the world’s richest woman, has opened the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Arkansas — and the first five graduating classes will get free tuition.

From over 2,000 applicants, only 48 students were chosen. The school focuses on more than just medicine — it teaches future doctors to care for the mind, body, and emotions.

The modern campus includes rooftop gardens, wellness spaces, and quiet areas for reflection. Walton, inspired by her own recovery after a serious car accident, wants to redefine medical education and train doctors who heal the whole person, not just the illness.

 

  

 

A 2+ minute video, Paint Me A Way Out, here

 

  

 

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 Red-faced Liocichla,

 

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