Fractals are amazing. They represent a core concept in nature. They summarize all that is complex and poetic about life and the world we live. From the whole are the pieces and from the pieces is the whole. The concept of fractals struck me today. We have a small neighborhood restaurant just down the block from our home in Portland. The restaurant wasn’t […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it really hard to stay focused on all the immediate and urgent needs – and plan for the bigger future. This is particularly important when it comes to building opportunities for the older boys who ‘graduate’ from the Casa Girasoles program. They are getting older – in-spite of the social isolation and mandatory quarantine, and we need to […]
Things are really tough. I am convinced this is true for all 7.5 billion people on the planet. The challenges are, however, more profound and impactful for the poor of this world. This is especially true for the people we serve in Perú. The families living in extreme poverty with children living with disabilities and medically fragile conditions are […]
It’s hard enough figuring out the 6-foot rule that now governors our lives. Let alone trying to determine how to go about life in the age of social isolation, quarantines, and mandatory restrictions. The fleeting moments of “normal” are quickly usurped by the overwhelming realization there is no normal as we have known it for most of our […]
When I was in college, a mentor gave me a book. It changed my life. The book, a Buddhist meditation on building a life of commitment, has never felt more pertinent. Chop Wood, Carry Water is an exploration of the idea that the most divine moments of life come not in the glamorous and glorious – but in the mundane and routine. […]
One thing I am finding extremely important in this very uncertain time – staying connected to our HBI team. Today, on two continents in 20 different locations – all 38 people who make up the HBI team met on a Zoom internet call. It was the first time, virtually or physically we’ve gotten our whole team together . . . and, it […]
This morning I was going through my desk, as I hunker down for a long period of working from home. I found a bunch of old pictures. Some of the photographs were from a medical outreach campaign we did well over 20 years ago. A medical outreach project to a community where we still work […]
There is an expression in public health parlance. It says – if the U.S. and Western Europe sneeze, the rest of the world will get the flu. Well, the sneeze has been felt around the world and things in Latin America are challenging to say the very least. Perú has declared a national state of emergency. The country is on lock-down. […]
The President of Perú released an Emergency Decree, published in the official newspaper El Peruano. The decree helps to shore up public health and emergency response and states that “those who enter the national territory [Perú] from countries with an epidemiological history will be subject to isolation for 14 days.” Currently the United States is […]
I feel incredibly blessed to do the work we are doing. I am continually reminded what a great privilege it is to be in the lives of the people we serve. There are, however, days when the challenges and difficulties feel really heavy. This has been a particularly challenging week for our team. Here are a couple short […]
Yes, I would like to receive emails from Health Bridges International. (You can unsubscribe anytime.)
